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Brandon Lewis

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Treatment of Detainees
Tuesday 6th July 2010

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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We will be a united coalition on this, as on all other subjects. I stand by everything I have said about the arms trade treaty, and we will be taking an energetic and supportive part in those negotiations from 12 July. We very much support that treaty.

Brandon Lewis Portrait Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth) (Con)
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T5. Can my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary update the House on the measures that the Government are taking with regard to our economic development work with Pakistan?

Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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Yes. The International Development Secretary, who will also speak about this, visited Pakistan before my visit earlier in June. He announced a four-year programme of £665 million of British aid for Pakistan. A huge amount of that is dedicated to education— £250 million. Pakistan has literacy rates of only about 50% and raising the quality of education is critical to its economic development.

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