Draft International Development Association (Seventeenth Replenishment: Additional Payments) Order 2016 Debate

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Department: Department for International Development

Draft International Development Association (Seventeenth Replenishment: Additional Payments) Order 2016

Kate Osamor Excerpts
Monday 12th September 2016

(8 years, 3 months ago)

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Kate Osamor Portrait Kate Osamor (Edmonton) (Lab/Co-op)
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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mr Bone. I thank the Minister for outlining the statutory instrument before us today. It is right that Parliament has the opportunity through this Committee to scrutinise the order in detail as it pertains to a substantial level of investment.

I would like further information on the UK’s pledge of a concessional loan, which the Government are making for the first time ever as part of the donation to IDA. Will the Minister provide further detail, either today or subsequently, about his assessment of other nations’ progress on and timescales for fulfilling their commitments under the agreement? I am happy to confirm that the Labour party does not intend to divide the Committee on the order.