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Pauline Latham Excerpts
Wednesday 12th July 2017

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I welcome the hon. Gentleman to the House. He is absolutely right, and that is exactly what our aid spending does. Importantly, poverty reduction is at the heart of the definition in terms of official development assistance spending, and that is something that the Government are absolutely focused on.

Pauline Latham Portrait Mrs Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire) (Con)
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The 0.7% is extremely valuable in alleviating poverty. Will the Secretary of State update the House on the important summit on family planning that she attended yesterday and tell us what it achieved?