Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for introducing this Bill. It is a privilege, as ever, to fo...

My Lords, I, too, warmly welcome this Bill. When the new world order appears to be more disorder ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Bates, on his excellent introduction to the Bill. I...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund. As such, I have...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Boateng, and I agree with much of what...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lords, Lord Bruce and Lord Boateng, with their his...

My Lords, I worked for the CDC from 1981 to 1994. As the noble Lord, Lord Judd, said, for nine of...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow so many noble Lords who have had experience of these m...

My Lords, I have no personal relationship with the CDC, although not for want of trying. I went t...

My Lords, I add my thanks to the Minister for introducing this Bill to your Lordships’ House. Hav...

My Lords, in this House there has been strong support for the 0.7% aid target and Britain’s role ...

My Lords, I begin by thanking all noble Lords for their contributions in what has been a thoughtf...

I was trying to say, with some of the examples that I gave, that they do not need money: they are...

That is right. The noble Baroness refers specifically to India, which is of course itself a signa...

I am grateful to the Minister for what he has said and the fact that he will write to me, althoug...

I defer to the noble Lord’s great experience in this area. He is right. He is also right to say t...