Strategy for International Development

I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee, who is making a brilliant speech. Does she ag...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely correct. At a time of such international uncertainty, a policy...

My hon. Friend is making a very good speech, and I strongly agree with her point about multilater...

I second everything my hon. Friend has said. We have a number of significant pledges that are com...

It is wonderful not to be on a four-minute time limit for a debate as important as this. I draw t...

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The effects of taking money from the World Bank are very severe, as I suspect my friend the right...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, my neighbour, but I disagree with him on this point. W...

On that point I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. Although I do not want to put wor...

I commend the right hon. Gentleman on the book he wrote, which I remember reading about two month...

My hon. Friend—he is my hon. Friend—is absolutely right in what he says, and it is very good of h...

The right hon. Gentleman is making an incredibly powerful speech. Does he agree that there is a d...

The hon. Lady has said more eloquently than me precisely why this is such an important aspect of ...

I pay tribute to the right hon. Gentleman for the formation of the ICAI, which absolutely does it...

Of course, all the officials in the Foreign Office will want to reduce ICAI expenditure—first bec...

Order. Although we are not pressed for time, if everybody spoke for about half an hour we would b...

I had the great privilege of serving for nearly four years as the International Development Secre...

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the answer is not to detain them indefinitely in places ...

The right approach is to consider an asylum application and to make a swift decision. As the righ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I apologise to the House for interrupting the debate, ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. I have received no notification from the Leade...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), who is always a...

The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech about very important matters. As she says, there are ...

That is a very important point that our Select Committee absolutely needs to scrutinise, because ...

Let me declare my interest, at the outset of this debate, as the chair of the international parli...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion), the Chair of the International Dev...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for West Worcestershire (Harriett Baldwin), and I will...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Several whistleblowers have revealed that there was...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and it will be good to hear the Minister’s response to t...

I start by thanking the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) for securing this incredibly i...

I wholeheartedly agree with what the hon. Lady says. I am very conscious that in many of the coun...

I thank the hon. Member very much for his intervention. I have seen this in the Ukraine crisis wi...

The hon. Member is making an incredibly powerful speech. She has worked so hard in this area, and...

The hon. Member is absolutely right: it is the strategy that is completely missing from the Gover...

We come to the maiden speech.

5.20 pm

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me to speak.

In the past, I worked with the conflict, st...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me to speak in this important debate. It is an absolute pleasu...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point and she knows at first hand the importance of our contribut...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue. This debate has been really important in enabling ...

It is an absolute pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. Member for Putney (Fleur Anderson). I a...

Order. Before I call the Front-Bench representatives to wind up, after which Sarah Champion will ...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). I also congratula...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion)—the Chair of the International D...

I am grateful to the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion), the Chair of the International D...

Will the Minister give way on that point?

I will try to address some of the comments. I will come to global health budgets, which my right ...

The World Bank has just mobilised $170 billion of emergency response to the current crisis, but t...

I am so glad that the right hon. Member has raised this point because the UK remains one of the t...

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I will make some more progress, because I want to answer many other questions.

Major global...

Can the Minister confirm whether that will also include safe abortions?

Yes, the Chair of the International Development Committee is right. There are countries where par...

I am sorry to intervene on my hon. Friend now, because it was the earlier point she was pursuing ...

What I can tell my right hon. Friend is that access to vaccines in Africa is not the issue at the...

Will the Minister give way?

Let me try to address hon. Members’ questions first, because I have only another few minutes and ...

I hope that the Minister may come on to not just the £10 billion of the aid budget, but the Gover...

Let me come to the special drawing rights; I was about to go through more of the specific questio...

Will the Minister give way?

No, because I want to get on to some of the right hon. Gentleman’s other points.

On ICAI, t...

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On China—

Go ahead, then. That is impressive.

Why do we send programme aid to China at all? We have reduced it by 95% and we do not send any di...

I will now ask Sarah Champion to briefly wind up. You might as well speak until just a few second...

I want to begin by thanking all the aid workers around the world, who work in some incredibly dan...

It being 20 seconds before 7 o’clock, I will just talk for 20 seconds and entertain the House, as...