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Andrew Turner Excerpts
Tuesday 14th June 2011

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alistair Burt Portrait Alistair Burt
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The hon. Gentleman is right about the proportion spent, which I picked out for the answer that I have just given him. Sometimes it is difficult to separate these things out, category by category. For example, the £30 million that goes into the promotion of Palestinian economic development feeds into work on prosperity and co-existence issues. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is open to more project applications coming in for exactly such projects, and I will certainly work with the posts involved, in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, to see what more we can do to encourage the activities that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned.

Andrew Turner Portrait Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight) (Con)
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Will the Government make it clear to the Israeli Government that an attack on any future humanitarian flotilla would be met by international condemnation?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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May I gently remind the Minister that we are talking, narrowly, about co-existence projects and joint business initiatives?