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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Prime Minister agree that the best prospect for the people of Scotland is to be a successful part of a growing United Kingdom, and that Alex Salmond’s mission to shake this House to its foundations will deny recovery, jobs and mortgages, and threaten both the UK and Scotland, …..."
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Written Question
Developing Countries: Disability
Monday 16th March 2015

Asked by: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department plans to take to advocate for disability-disaggregated reporting in forthcoming negotiations on (a) the post-2015 framework on disaster risk reduction and (b) the post-2015 development framework.

Answered by Justine Greening

Strengthening disability data at all levels is a key part of DFID’s work on disability. DFID is working closely with the UN, including the UN Statistical Division, and others donors on this agenda. The UK has been, and will continue to be, explicit about the need for disaggregated data for all social groups, including disability, in negotiations on the post-2015 framework. Disability data disaggregation is included in the draft of the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Report of the Open Working Group report for the Post-2015 development framework.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Jan 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"Just before this debate, the Select Committee was taking evidence from the Secretary of State on precisely the issue of private sector investment, but not a single Labour member of the Committee attended the session...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Jan 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"I am pleased to follow the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr Clarke), who has a long and distinguished record of championing development issues and was the author of important legislation in this field.

I welcome this debate. In a year when momentous decisions have to be …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"I would like to thank, through the Secretary of State, the British personnel who are engaged in tackling the outbreak. Following up the question on the WHO, does she acknowledge that it did not respond quickly enough and that its mechanisms are not really fit for purpose? Will she press …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Prime Minister confirm that NHS spending under the coalition Government has risen by 4% in real terms? That has been passed on to Scotland, where spending has in fact been cut by 1%. Is he also aware that Grampian has a £70 million two-year shortfall in funding? Consequently, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 11 Dec 2014
Health Systems (Developing Countries)

"I am pleased to have the opportunity to debate these three reports, which as it happens are timelier in their outcomes than we realised when we started them. The Select Committee on International Development decided that we should visit Sierra Leone and Liberia to see how the Department for International …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 11 Dec 2014
Health Systems (Developing Countries)

"My hon. Friend is right; in fact, it was actually after we had left. We have now learned—I am smiling at the Minister—how to ask the questions. We asked in general terms what our official development assistance was, and DFID said, “We don’t have an ODA programme in Brazil, but …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 11 Dec 2014
Health Systems (Developing Countries)

"I agree, but does my hon. Friend acknowledge that we heard some evidence that, good as DFID was, it was rather hiding its light under a bushel, and that people felt that it should be doing much more to provide leadership and that it had slightly lost its edge in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 11 Dec 2014
Health Systems (Developing Countries)

"I am very glad to see the hon. Gentleman back in the international development debate. To clarify how this issue arose, we were told by the Health Department in Liberia that the money had been earmarked for it and that it had not received it—that the Minister of Finance had …..."
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