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Mike Freer
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(11 years, 4 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
I might tell the hon. Gentleman that I met the President here yesterday and I conveyed some of those messages on behalf of colleagues.
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green) (Con)
T7. The UK contributes £30 million a year to the Palestinian Authority’s general budget. Does the Secretary of State agree that the pooled and general nature of that budget means that it is impossible to track how all donor money is actually spent?
The Minister of State, Department for International Development (Mr Alan Duncan)
UK funding to the Palestinian Authority is used specifically to pay civil servants’ salaries, and that is subject to audit. It is absolutely right, and essential for peace, that we continue to support the Palestinian Authority.