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Patrick Grady Excerpts
Wednesday 16th November 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rory Stewart Portrait Rory Stewart
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That is absolutely right. Co-ordination is vital, particularly in an extreme humanitarian situation. It is terrible when people require assistance if we are wasting money duplicating effort. That is why DFID staff and UN staff are working so closely together, and that is why co-ordination is central to our multilateral aid review.

Patrick Grady Portrait Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (SNP)
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Does the Minister recognise the role of civil society organisations in delivering the sustainable development goals, which the former Prime Minister helped to draft? If so, why do the sustainable development goals not even appear in the recent civil society partnership review?

Rory Stewart Portrait Rory Stewart
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The sustainable development goals are central, and the UK Government played a very important role in bringing them forward, but this is a cross-Government effort and we will be bringing forward a cross-Government response.