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Written Question
Ukraine: State Visits
Wednesday 23rd November 2022

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the visit of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Ukraine to Eton College on 16 November 2022 was conducted in a public or private capacity.

Answered by Leo Docherty

Melinda Simmons was invited to speak at Eton College on 16 November 2022 by the Eton College Politics Society about the work of the British Embassy Kyiv in Ukraine. In her capacity as His Majesty's Ambassador to Ukraine, Melinda Simmons spoke for 15 minutes and took 45 minutes of questions.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome the right hon. Gentleman, my constituency neighbour, to his place. Our ability to act as human rights defenders around the world would be much stronger if we collectively hit the G20 target of lending $100 billion of the special drawing rights issued last year. To date, the UK …..."
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Written Question
Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment
Tuesday 12th July 2022

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the G7 Communique expressing progress on the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), which Minister leads UK policy on the PGII; which role is providing executive day to day leadership of the PGII; how much resource has been committed to the PGII (a) by the UK and (b) in total; and how many projects are in the pipeline for funding through the PGII.

Answered by Vicky Ford

The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) is the G7's commitment to help countries get the investment they need to grow secure, open, thriving economies. Collectively, G7 countries aim to mobilise $600 billion of honest, reliable finance for low and middle-income countries over five years, as announced at the recent Leaders' summit, and are committed to closer co-ordination and communication of initiatives, in close conjunction with the G7 Presidency. The UK's contribution to PGII will be our work through British Investment Partnerships(BIP), as set out in our recently published International Development Strategy. Led by the Foreign Secretary, BIP aims to mobilise up to £8 billion of UK backed financing a year by 2025, including from the private sector. The UK delivers BIP through a range of instruments and tools, including development finance, export finance, concessional finance, guarantees and expertise, and each of these mechanisms has its own pipeline of initiatives, either being implemented or under development.

Written Question
USA: Trade
Tuesday 12th July 2022

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had on seeking participation in the US-EU Trade and Technology Council.

Answered by Rehman Chishti

The Foreign Secretary has not held any discussions seeking participation in the US-EU Trade and Technology Council. The UK continues to work closely with the US and EU to further our shared technology objectives.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Prime Minister’s Meeting with Alexander Lebedev

"According to intelligence reports that I have seen, a serving FSB officer reported in 2017, “Aleksandr Lebedev is considered by the FSB to be an important asset”. More recently, he has significantly expanded his businesses in occupied Crimea; pleaded with the Kremlin for economic help for occupied Crimea; and was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jul 2022
Strategy for International Development

"I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee, who is making a brilliant speech. Does she agree that it is in Britain’s interests to use multilateral institutions, rather than to simply donate bilaterally, because that multiplies the impact that we can have?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jul 2022
Strategy for International Development

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jul 2022
Strategy for International Development

"I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, my neighbour, but I disagree with him on this point. With the International Monetary Fund, for example, where we have collectively issued $650 billion of special drawing rights, it would have been sensible for the UK to have stepped up and provided …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jul 2022
Strategy for International Development

"Let me declare my interest, at the outset of this debate, as the chair of the international parliamentary network on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. I congratulate the Chair of the Select Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion), on bringing this debate to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jul 2022
Strategy for International Development

"The World Bank has just mobilised $170 billion of emergency response to the current crisis, but the first question everybody I have spoken to in the World Bank over the last year is: why on earth has the UK cut its commitment to the World Bank when we could be …..."
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