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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 18 Nov 2016
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) (Amendment) Bill [HL]

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That the Bill be now read a second time...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 18 Nov 2016
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) (Amendment) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, this is a simple Bill that I can simply precis. In the last Parliament, legislation was passed committing Britain to spending at least 0.7% of GNI on official development assistance. Ministers are to report to Parliament if they miss this target. However, by making the target an annual …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 18 Nov 2016
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) (Amendment) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. I should correct one misunderstanding, which is probably my fault. I did not mean to say that Cameron was doing this for wicked motives; in fact, I said that he might be doing it for high moral motives. However, my more …..."
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Written Question
Overseas Aid
Friday 18th September 2015

Asked by: Lord Lipsey (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether new spending on migrants will count towards the statutory target of spending 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas aid.

Answered by Baroness Verma

In his statement to Parliament on 7 September the Prime Minister stated that, in full accordance with internationally agreed rules, the UK will ensure that the full cost of supporting thousands of Syrian refugees in the UK will be met through our aid spending for the first year.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 27 Feb 2015
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"My Lords, I am slightly surprised by the “extremely unusual”. The House will recall that at the end of the Brown Government both Houses passed a Bill to make care of elderly people in their own homes free. Following discussion between both Houses, it was agreed that, given that the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 27 Feb 2015
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 27 Feb 2015
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"My Lords, I very much regret that I was not able to be here to move this amendment in Committee, but I am delighted to say that the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth—as I would have expected—did that job much better than I could have done. I certainly do not intend …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 27 Feb 2015
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who participated in this debate. I am sure that the political history of the Brooke family will be required reading whenever experts assemble to discuss aid issues for many years to come.

This debate has established one thing, which is that there is …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"My Lords, as the first dissident to speak in this debate, I start by saying that I agree with north of 90% of what has been said so far, particularly the moving remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, about the impact of the aid programme. I am unambiguously for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 22 Oct 2012
EAC Report: Development Aid

"My Lords, in view of the Whips’ guidance earlier, I will reduce my blog-length contribution to a tweet—which means that I will not be able to say all I would like to say about the committee chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord MacGregor.

On the afternoon that we published the …..."
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