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Written Question
Developing Countries: Health Services
Wednesday 29th April 2020

Asked by: Jeremy Corbyn (Independent - Islington North)

Question to the Department for International Development:

What steps she is taking to ensure that universal healthcare is available as a right in countries that are in receipt of support through her Department's aid programmes.

Answered by James Cleverly - Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

The UK was an architect of the Sustainable Development Goals, one of which is to achieve Universal Health Coverage. Our NHS is a shining light and we have deployed British expertise across the world including during African Ebola outbreaks. DFID’s health programmes support developing countries to build resilient health systems that provide quality health services for all and are prepared for global health threats like coronavirus.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
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"I want to begin by paying tribute, as the Prime Minister did, to the emergency services across the country, and especially to all those who responded to the Westminster attack last Wednesday and those who turned out to help the victims of the New Ferry explosion last Saturday. Our thoughts …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
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"Of course we all pay tribute to the police for the work that they do, but there are some problems. Between 2015 and 2018 there will be a real-terms cut of £330 million in central Government funding for police forces. Can the Prime Minister assure the House that police forces …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
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"A survey undertaken recently by the Police Federation reveals that 55% of serving police officers say that their morale is low because of how their funding has been treated. Frontline policing is vital to tackling crime and terrorism, but there are 20,000 fewer police officers and 12,000 fewer officers on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
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"As Home Secretary, the Prime Minister clearly did not protect police budgets. Last week, she told me four times:

“We have protected the schools budget.”—[Official Report, 22 March 2017; Vol. 623, c. 854-855.]

Does she still stand by that statement?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
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"Today, the Public Accounts Committee says of the Department for Education:

“The Department does not seem to understand the pressures that schools are already under.”

It goes on to say that

“Funding per pupil is reducing in real terms”,

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
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"The daily experience of many parents who have children in school is that they receive letters asking for money. One parent, Elizabeth, wrote to me to say that she has received a letter from her daughter’s school asking for a monthly donation to top up the reduced funds that it …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Feb 2017
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"When hospitals are struggling to provide essential care, why is the Prime Minister’s Government cutting the number of beds in our national health service?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Feb 2017
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"In 2010, there was the highest ever level of satisfaction with the national health service, delivered by a Labour Government. The British Medical Association—[Interruption.] It’s doctors. The British Medical Association tells us that 15,000 beds have been cut in the past six years, the equivalent of 24 …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Feb 2017
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"I asked the Prime Minister why one in six A&E units are currently set for closure or downgrading; she did not answer. One of the problems—she well knows this—is the £4.6 billion cut to social care, which has a knock-on effect. Her friend the Tory chair of the Local Government …..."
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