Institute for Statecraft: Integrity Initiative Debate

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Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Institute for Statecraft: Integrity Initiative

Kevin Foster Excerpts
Wednesday 12th December 2018

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alan Duncan Portrait Sir Alan Duncan
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I say once again to the right hon. Lady that no Foreign Office funding is used for the initiative’s UK domestic activity. She can look at me as aghast as she likes, but the money that comes from the Foreign Office is used for activity overseas, and she should accept that as the—[Interruption.] If she does not accept it, she should say in terms what she is accusing me of, because that would be a breach of the forms of the House.

Kevin Foster Portrait Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con)
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It would clearly be concerning if any Foreign Office money was being used for party political activities, so I welcome the Minister’s reassurances. Will he confirm that an investigation has been launched to see what has happened, and that when a proper, independent investigation has come to proper conclusions, he will take action on them?