Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Richard Burden Excerpts
Wednesday 18th April 2018

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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We need to ensure that UK aid is working doubly hard—better delivering on the global goals but also working in the UK’s national interest—and is not just spent well, but could not be spent better. Part of that will be delivered through a new cross-Government ministerial ODA meeting to ensure greater coherence and better spend of UK aid.

Richard Burden Portrait Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab)
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T2. The Minister of State is one of 57 Members who over the years have visited the village of Khan al-Ahmar and its primary school, which was built with international assistance. Does he know that, one week today, that school could be destroyed as a result of a court hearing to make way for an illegal Israeli settlement expansion? Does he agree that the UK Government should make urgent representations to the Government of Israel that such action would contravene international law?