International Women’s Day Debate

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International Women’s Day

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Thursday 7th March 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Winterton of Doncaster Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker
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I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point of order. I suggest that that is the sort of thing best kept quiet, really.

Richard Graham Portrait Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con)
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On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Because there was so little time at the end of the previous debate, the Minister did not have a chance to pay tribute to the work done by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, which is funded by the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development. It hosted the great conference for women here in November, it recently hosted another fabulous conference on political leadership for women in Malaysia, and it will continue to do that work.

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker
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The hon. Gentleman has ingeniously made a point about the previous debate as opposed to the debate I am anxious that we now get on to, because time is still short.