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Aid Reviews

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

524 c167-84 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for International Development

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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India (Aid)
Friday, 9 November 2012
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did not listen carefully to my earlier response, which was that the Government ar...

Speaker | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) I must thank the Secretary of State and colleagues for their succinctness, which has meant that ever...

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Andrew Mitchell | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman downloads the reviews, he will be able to see the precise figures. The proport...

Bob Russell | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his commitment to an ongoing aid relationship with the island of St...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to identify St Helena as an important dependent territory which rightly has ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 524 c183 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Secretary of State's announcement. He categorised the multilateral organisat...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c183 (Link to this contribution) CDC is not one of the organisations that has been assessed as part of the multilateral aid review be...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure the hon. Lady that we are in very close touch with UN Women. When the plan is produce...

Emma Reynolds | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) Further to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart), does the S...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be able to download the review straight after this statement. UNICEF is doing a ...

Rehman Chishti | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's excellent statement. Will he join me in paying tribute to the exc...

Michael McCann | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State tell us what proportion of the current aid programme is allocated to mult...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has a long record of speaking out vigorously on European issues and the whole House w...

Catherine McKinnell | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said, in response to my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge, Chryston...

Peter Bone | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's performance today has confirmed, yet again, that he is the only Member of t...

Speaker | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is always a pleasure to hear the hon. Gentleman but I have a faint suspicion that he toddl...

Chris Bryant | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) Why on earth are the Government lending £160 million to the Turks and Caicos Islands, which have a v...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c184 (Link to this contribution) I have made no secret of my very strong support for the Bribery Act—anyone who holds this office rea...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c183 (Link to this contribution) That may have been a little over the top. First, we are not withdrawing from the ILO. We have made i...

Denis MacShane | 524 c183 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, both in Kuwait last week and yesterday, has held up freedom of association as so...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c183 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be able to see that the figure for India is frozen at its current level for the ...

Philip Hollobone | 524 c183 (Link to this contribution) What proportion of the ongoing aid budget will be absorbed by India, and across the global programme...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c180 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has asked a very good question. Over the next four years, we will work intensively to...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c180 (Link to this contribution) I think that I was respectful rather than charming about Mrs Bachelet, but as soon as we have a plan...

Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 524 c180 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the tighter focus of the aid programme, but the India programme continues to present a jui...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) Food security and agriculture are at the heart of many of the programmes that we operate in food-str...

Pauline Latham | 524 c180 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that he would put more money into the development of democracy in 13 of ...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend and his team on an important piece of work that is in the nation...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but it is important to recognise whether a British bilateral pr...

Eilidh Whiteford | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) Last week I was in Ghana with the all-party parliamentary group on agriculture and food for developm...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) We continue to discuss a range of matters with the EU and with Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, who is ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c182 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I cannot give that precise figure to my hon. Friend off the top of my head, but I s...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c181 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will have heard me say, we are maintaining our membership of the ILO. However,...

Harriett Baldwin | 524 c181 (Link to this contribution) Save the Children, which is a very well supported charity in West Worcestershire, has particularly w...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c181 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. For reasons he will readily appreciate, one of the best developm...

David Evennett | 524 c181 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement on the refocusing of our aid to target it and get value f...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c181 (Link to this contribution) In future, all our programmes will have detailed evaluation criteria from day one whether or not the...

Andrew Gwynne | 524 c181 (Link to this contribution) How will the increase in aid to conflict-affected countries be evaluated to ensure it is having the ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. India presents a paradox, because although it has the ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c167-9 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the Government's bilateral and ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) I think I will take that as qualified support for the Government's position. The right hon. and lea...

Baroness Harman | 524 c169-71 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and for giving me advance copies of it. I welcome ...

Denis MacShane | 524 c172 (Link to this contribution) What about trade unions?

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c176 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for his remarks. He, of course, led our party's approach ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c176 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about urbanisation. Only in the very recent past has the major...

Lord Lilley | 524 c176 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on putting such a strong emphasis on the effectiveness of ai...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) The Under-Secretary of State for International Development, my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury ...

Tony Baldry | 524 c175 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend make two things clear to the NGOs? The first is that they have a shared re...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c175 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly pass on my hon. Friend's message to the NGOs. They also have a strong agenda of acc...

Lord Blunkett | 524 c175 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State join me in applauding the generosity of the British people, not least at...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c175 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right on that point. Some four years ago, I went to Laos and ...

Anne Main | 524 c175 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give me an indication of how he intends to work with the Dalit community...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c175 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Dalit community represent the poorest of the poor in India, ...

Chris Ruane | 524 c174 (Link to this contribution) Today is St David's day, and Wales is twinned with Lesotho. Will the Secretary of State tell us why ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c174 (Link to this contribution) The Chairman of the Select Committee makes an important point. Programme staffing will be set to ens...

Speaker | 524 c174 (Link to this contribution) Order. My exhortations to brevity have not been quite as faithfully heeded as I might have hoped, bu...

Speaker | 524 c173 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, but I remind the House ...

Peter Tapsell | 524 c173 (Link to this contribution) May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on a truly impressive statement, which was both highl...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentions trade unions from a sedentary position. Let me make it clear that ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c174 (Link to this contribution) I certainly pay tribute to CAFOD and the brilliant work of Chris Bain in leading it. I agree with th...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 524 c174 (Link to this contribution) The review was right, and the tighter focus is welcome. The Select Committee on International Develo...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c173 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend said he was going to make a micro-economic point! He has great experience of such mat...

Tom Clarke | 524 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as the chair of the all-party friends of CAFOD group. Does the right hon. Gent...

Jason McCartney | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) Having visited the flood-hit areas of Pakistan and Kashmir before Christmas, may I ask my right hon....

William Bain | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) How does the Secretary of State justify ending bilateral aid to Cambodia, given that last year 31% o...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. As a result of the much more careful prioritisation of aid and a...

Roger Williams | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) Unfolding events in north Africa and the wider middle east could not have been anticipated when the ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: we are watching extremely carefully what is happening. We ar...

Gerald Kaufman | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that when he refers to the occupied Palestinian territories, h...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c179 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is extremely experienced in the issues of the occupied Palestinian territor...

Lord Harrington of Watford | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) I also commend the Secretary of State and his colleagues on today's statement and the review behind ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my hon. Friend says, but many people would agree that building up Turkey's capacity to t...

Eric Joyce | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) Today's announcement of the continuation of bilateral aid to the Democratic Republic of the Congo is...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to stress the importance of that agenda in the DRC, which is ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c178 (Link to this contribution) We had specific discussions with Vietnam on our programme there, which does not wind down, I think, ...

Richard Burden | 524 c177 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State suggests terminating the aid programme in Vietnam. I suggest that he looks ag...

William Cash | 524 c177 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that the all-party groups on Kenya, Uganda and sanitation and water...

Jeremy Corbyn | 524 c177 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will recognise that among the most exploited workers in the world are Dalits,...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c177 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely right to emphasise that there are four key elements of the decent wor...

Gary Streeter | 524 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement, giving a renewed focus to British aid policy. He ...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c177 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right in the emphasis he places on good governance. Helping people to h...

Mark Durkan | 524 c176 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has said that there will be a new focus on both bilateral and multilateral ai...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c176 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have heard the contrast between what I said about the Food and Agriculture O...

Fiona Mactaggart | 524 c180 (Link to this contribution) It is all very well for the Secretary of State to be charming about Mrs Bachelet, the head of UN Wom...

Hugh Bayley | 524 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) More than half the world's population now lives in urban areas, and less than half in the countrysid...

Paul Flynn | 524 c181 (Link to this contribution) An Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation visiting a former communist country last week was shocked to...

Andrew Mitchell | 524 c177 (Link to this contribution) We have looked carefully at EU aid spending and while it is true that the spending through the Commi...

Subjects

Developing countries Development aid Diseases Disease control Politics and government Maternity services Vaccination Reviews Malaria World Health Organization UNICEF UN Development Programme GAVI Alliance

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