Asked by: Lee Rowley (Conservative - North East Derbyshire)
Question to the Department for International Development:
What steps she is taking to promote technology for development purposes.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
DFID is committed to harnessing the power of technologies to reduce poverty. Our investments in technologies are saving and changing lives all over the world. DFID invests more than 45% of its research budget in the development, testing and large-scale delivery of technologies in health, agriculture, climate, energy, water, education, and humanitarian response.