Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Alex Norris Excerpts
Wednesday 1st May 2019

(5 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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That is quite right; it will have no effect on our ability to be able to do things and to work with partners. I hope that the European Commission, and in particular its legal department, will see sense and recognise that 20% of the non-governmental organisations it currently uses are British because we are world-class. Its programming will be poorer if it does not continue to use world-class organisations.

Alex Norris Portrait Alex Norris (Nottingham North) (Lab/Co-op)
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With time running out, the Government need to arrange a large volume of trade deals in a short period of time—deals they said would be easy but are not. There is a concern that to do so they may promise aid spending as an inducement to a favourable trade deal. Will the Secretary of State today commit to aid spending continuing to be untied and always being based on need alone, rather than for our own commercial and trade ends?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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Yes, I have always said that and we will always do that.