Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

James Gray Excerpts
Wednesday 18th October 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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The hon. Gentleman is right to point that out in terms of the grand bargain and the humanitarian work that Britain leads on around the world. He asks about progress. I can let the House know that enormous progress has been made directly with the humanitarian agencies that we work with, through the funding that we are putting in place. We are making sure that the grand bargain commitments are part of the funding performance that we now put in place with regard to the reform agenda.

James Gray Portrait James Gray (North Wiltshire) (Con)
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My understanding is that military assistance to British overseas territories may not be paid out of the British aid budget. Is it not an absurdity that our defence budget has to pay for British military aid in the Caribbean?