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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Grahame Morris Excerpts
Thursday 27th October 2011

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Vince Cable Portrait Vince Cable
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As my hon. Friend knows, there is a mechanism for dealing with official debt, through the Paris Club, but I will certainly undertake to speak to my colleague, the Secretary of State for International Development, to ask what concessional assistance we are giving to Egypt. The matter does not directly bear on my Department, but I accept that there is a link with the promotion of trade.

Grahame Morris Portrait Grahame M. Morris (Easington) (Lab)
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Does the Business Secretary believe that tax evasion and tax avoidance is having a negative impact on economic growth?

Vince Cable Portrait Vince Cable
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Absolutely. I am resolute, and I hope that my colleagues on the Opposition Benches will work with me in combating both.