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Written Question
Palestinians: Terrorism
Thursday 14th March 2019

Asked by: Guto Bebb (Independent - Aberconwy)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she has held discussions with Palestinian officials on recent reports that the Palestinian Authority will reduce the salaries of its public sector workers but continue paying salaries for the families of martyrs, wounded or prisoners.

Answered by Alistair Burt

DFID officials are aware of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) plans to make partial salary payments to public sector officials earning 2,000 NIS (£425) or above a month. We are in the process of assessing the implications for PEGASE beneficiaries (who are vetted health and education public servants) including through discussions with the PA. The UK continues to support a stable PA which can act as an effective partner for peace with Israel, through financial assistance that exclusively supports the salaries of vetted public servants in the West Bank in the health and education sectors. This move does not affect the robust financial safeguards that ensure UK financial aid only reaches intended beneficiaries, meaning aid is not allocated to Prisoner or Martyr payments. The UK government continues to press the PA to reform the prisoner payments system to become more needs-based, transparent and affordable.

Written Question
Palestinians
Wednesday 17th December 2014

Asked by: Guto Bebb (Independent - Aberconwy)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department provides financial assistance to Al-Quds University in the West Bank.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

DFID does not provide financial assistance to Al-Quds University in the West Bank.

Written Question
Ghana
Monday 27th October 2014

Asked by: Guto Bebb (Independent - Aberconwy)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports she has received of the potential effects of the Plant Breeders Bill in Ghana on small-scale farmers in that country.

Answered by Baroness Featherstone

The Department has not, to date, received any reports.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 May 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"1. What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of aid provided to the Occupied Palestinian Territories...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 May 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank the Minister for his response. On a trip to Israel and the west bank earlier this year, I saw education materials that incited violence and the use of Palestinian Authority broadcast media to glorify conflict, not least relating to a group of children singing about the aim to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Sep 2011
Gaza (Aid)

"The difference between Israel’s attitudes to the Gaza strip and the west bank might be because it faces more of a threat from the Gaza strip. As for the recent visit to the west bank, my understanding is that the economic growth in that part of the Palestinian authority is …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 24 Nov 2010
Lesotho

"I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this debate on the links between Wales and Lesotho. It is important to make the point that the Welsh contribution has been significant. On economic development, does he agree that the priority given by Dolen Cymru to educational links is a long-term strategy …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 24 Nov 2010
Lesotho

"That is an important point. I support the hon. Gentleman’s call for the UK representation in Lesotho to continue. We talk about the big society and, in a Welsh context, this is very much a big society project. Community groups have come together—Merched y Wawr, the Women’s Institute and so …..."
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