DfID: Tied Aid Debate

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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

DfID: Tied Aid

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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
Monday 11th March 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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The Afghan Government chose to gain their legal advice in the way that I indicated. Consultancies are subject to open competition, so the noble Lord can be reassured in that regard.

Lord Fowler Portrait Lord Fowler
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I agree with what my noble friend set out as her department’s general policy. I have a specific question about the statement by the former Secretary of State that new money, extra money, would be going to the global fund for HIV and other diseases. Will that pledge be kept?

Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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I am going to have to write to my noble friend to clarify that. I know that the Global Fund had some problems, with which he will be extremely familiar. I also know that DfID was working extremely closely with the Global Fund, because it had been so effective in the past, to bring it back to that position. I have not had the most recent update. I will make sure that he gets it.

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