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Chi Onwurah Excerpts
Wednesday 12th January 2011

(13 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alan Duncan Portrait Mr Duncan
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The amounts going to Afghanistan will be significantly increased, but the exact amounts will be announced in due course, when we have completed the multilateral and bilateral review process, which should be announced in the next few months.

Chi Onwurah Portrait Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab)
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3. What programmes funded by his Department support the education of women in developing countries.

Andrew Mitchell Portrait The Secretary of State for International Development (Mr Andrew Mitchell)
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All my Department’s education programmes will have a focus on girls and young women. We will concentrate on enabling girls to progress through to secondary school, where the largest benefits accrue.

Chi Onwurah Portrait Chi Onwurah
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I am glad to hear that the Secretary of State is continuing Labour’s excellent work in this area. Education is important for developing economies, as it is for our own, but can he confirm that he will not drop Labour’s pledge to double support for global education?

Andrew Mitchell Portrait Mr Mitchell
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We will set out in due course precisely what the results of taxpayer spending will be in respect of education. I hope that we will carry the whole House in focusing directly on the results that we are achieving and spelling out the commitments that we are making not only to British taxpayers but to those we seek directly to help in poor countries.