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Caroline Spelman Excerpts
Wednesday 29th March 2017

(7 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Spelman Portrait Dame Caroline Spelman (Meriden) (Con)
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DFID funding has enabled significant progress in maternal healthcare, as well as in educating girls, in the federally administered tribal areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Would the Secretary of State be willing to meet representatives of the local charity, the Community Motivation and Development Organisation, which is a recipient, on their next visit to London?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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My right hon. Friend is absolutely right about the vital and significant work that is being done. I would be delighted to meet those people when they visit London soon.