Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Kirstene Hair Excerpts
Wednesday 20th March 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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We cannot spend any of the 0.7% on military spending. That is the whole point of being in the DAC—Development Assistance Committee—club and committing to 0.7%. We are looking at Her Majesty’s Government maritime capability, which might help other Departments as well as us, but aid money will only be spent on aid.

Kirstene Hair Portrait Kirstene Hair (Angus) (Con)
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The Dalitso project in my constituency has been collecting pads to make sanitary products for young women in Malawi. It has had a fantastic response from the community and is doing fantastic work. Will my right hon. Friend join me in celebrating that work to make environmentally friendly sanitary products for those who need them?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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I congratulate my hon. Friend and that fantastic organisation on their work. In addition to congratulating them, both my Departments will provide support to make period poverty history in the UK and internationally.