Overseas Aid (Private Sector Contracts) Debate
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Glyn Davies
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Overseas Aid (Private Sector Contracts)
Glyn Davies Excerpts(11 years, 8 months ago)
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Justine Greening
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Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire) (Con)
I congratulate the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister on their continuing commitment to standing by our international obligations to United Nations targets. Does the Secretary of State accept that it is crucial to focus on effectiveness, flexibility and value for money in each situation? Does she agree that that will be done sometimes through supporting security and sometimes through humanitarian aid, but always by using the dynamism of the private sector to maximise the long-term impact?
Justine Greening
My hon. Friend is right. Even when we are building up core basic services, the innovation of the private sector has a real role to play, and my Department has sought to tap into that. There is a strategic question about what we need to do for ourselves and what expertise we buy in from outside, but there is no doubt a key role for the private sector to play.