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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Sep 2015
Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean and Europe

"Does my hon. Friend agree that, because of the war and the terror in Syria, many young people are escaping to avoid being conscripted into the various warring armies in the region? It is quite understandable that many of them want to get away from a future full of nothing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Sep 2015
Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean and Europe

"claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36).

Question put forthwith, That the Question be now put.

Question agreed to.

Question put accordingly (Standing Order No. 31(2), That the original words stand part of the Question...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Dec 2014
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 12 Sep 2014
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has gone off at this strange tangent. Is he not aware that the Scottish Government have made it particularly clear that we will be bound by the UN target and will write it into the constitution of an independent Scotland? Does he …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 12 Sep 2014
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"I am sorry to hear the right hon. Gentleman going down this road, as I agreed with him up to that point. Does he not understand and accept that the Scottish Government are committed to writing in the 0.7% figure and that Scotland’s international development would add to overall international …..."
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Written Question
Acanchi
Monday 9th June 2014

Asked by: Mike Weir (Scottish National Party - Angus)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answers of 12 May 2014, Official Report, column 328W, on developing countries: marketing and of 21 June 2004, Official Report, coumn 1215W to question to 179188 on ACTIS/CDC, what the nature of the work conducted by Acanchi was; and how much was paid for that work.

Answered by Justine Greening

CDC is a public limited company with an independent management and Board. DFID is not involved in CDC operational matters and therefore does not hold the information requested.

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Monday 12th May 2014

Asked by: Mike Weir (Scottish National Party - Angus)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department, its executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies have funded or made contribution towards funding relating to nation branding development in any overseas state or territory in which it operates or has operated in the last 10 years.

Answered by Justine Greening

DFID does not fund nation-branding development.

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Monday 12th May 2014

Asked by: Mike Weir (Scottish National Party - Angus)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which nation branding consultancies have been funded or part-funded by her Department to work in overseas states and territories in which it has operated in the last 10 years; and what fees have been paid to each of those consultancies in each year since 2004.

Answered by Justine Greening

DFID does not fund nation-branding development.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Apr 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q14. In the spirit of a new positive case for the Union previewed this week by Lord Robertson, can the Prime Minister perhaps give us his view as to which of the four horsemen of the apocalypse will be the first to descend on an independent Scotland?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q6. On the day that unemployment in Scotland showed the largest fall in four years, is the Prime Minister as shocked as I am by reports in the Sunday Mail and the Daily Record this week that some jobcentre managers are actively encouraging employers to convert paid vacancies into unpaid …..."
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