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Written Question
West Africa: Ebola
Wednesday 17th December 2014

Asked by: Pat Glass (Labour - North West Durham)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent progress her Department has made on tackling Ebola in West Africa.

Answered by Justine Greening

The UK is leading the international response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. We have already committed £230m, delivered over 880 treatment and isolation beds, opened three laboratories and doubled the number of burial teams.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Mar 2014
Security of Women in Afghanistan

"Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I also wish to thank the Backbench Business Committee for allowing time for this debate. I speak whenever I can in this House on the issues of education and women, and today I want to bring those issues together in this debate on the security …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Mar 2014
Security of Women in Afghanistan

"I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I hope that the Minister is listening.

As I was saying, it is because of the teachers—my professional colleagues of whom I am so proud—and others working in women's health, human rights and security that the lot of women in Afghanistan has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"T3. How certain is the Minister that the TradeMark East Africa project is having—[Interruption.]..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"How certain is the Minister that the TradeMark East Africa project is having a positive impact on poverty reduction?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"13. Will that policy not simply take us back to the trade for aid days of the 1990s, when predatory western Governments behaved like payday loan companies and developing countries spent more on servicing debt than on helping people?..."
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