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Botswana

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

679 c1056-74 

Session

2005-06

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord St John of Bletso | 679 c1062-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Tonge, for introducing this short debate. It i...

Lord Chidgey | 679 c1061-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, since independence, the Government of Botswana have made a determined effort to raise educ...

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Lord Triesman | 679 c1072-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall go back to the basic research to ascertain the facts for certain—but the figure is...

Lord Triesman | 679 c1070-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Tonge, for initiating this d...

Lord Astor of Hever | 679 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Tonge, on securing this debate. Botswana is a...

Lord Avebury | 679 c1067-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I went up to Balliol 61 years ago, my greatest friend there was Seretse Khama, as my ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 679 c1065-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been on only one political junket in my life: to Botswana in September 2002—and ver...

Lord Jones of Cheltenham | 679 c1064-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Tonge on securing this debate. As we have just heard, ...

Lord Triesman | 679 c1074 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry if I have misunderstood the point. I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Pearson,...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 679 c1074 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I never said it did.

Lord Giddens | 679 c1059-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Tonge, on initiating the debate. Africa gets a ter...

Lord Giddens | 679 c1072 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that the figure refers to households rather than individuals. The rate is a lot hi...

Baroness Tonge | 679 c1056-9 (Link to this contribution) rose to ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the social and economic progress ma...

Subjects

Development aid Health services Human rights HIV/AIDS Ethnic groups Economic situation Politics and government Refugees Unemployment Zimbabwe Diversification Deserts Diamonds Botswana

Link

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