Debates between Baroness Garden of Frognal and Baroness Sheehan during the 2019-2024 Parliament

Sub-Saharan Africa: Water and Sanitation

Debate between Baroness Garden of Frognal and Baroness Sheehan
Wednesday 10th June 2020

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Garden of Frognal Portrait The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Garden of Frognal) (LD)
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My Lords, I gather that the noble Lord, Lord Duncan of Springbank, is not asking his question, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan.

Baroness Sheehan Portrait Baroness Sheehan (LD) [V]
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My Lords, in Africa, the WASH sector is critical for both containing the virus and lowering its devastating impact on human and economic costs. Can the Minister say what conversations DfID has had with the CDC about using its heft to leverage investment into both WASH, infrastructure and products such as soap and sanitiser?