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Written Question
Overseas Aid
Wednesday 4th May 2016

Asked by: Phillip Lee (Liberal Democrat - Bracknell)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what measures she has put in place to improve ministerial oversight of aid programmes.

Answered by Justine Greening

I have introduced more stringent ministerial sign off controls and this is backed up by thorough monitoring and evaluation processes and management information to better identify underperforming programmes so they can be dealt with.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Stephen Phillips) on securing this debate. I am struck that, over the course of my short life, the population of the globe has doubled. In looking at the rather numerous sustainable development goals, I note that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"Of course, and that is why I have never been particularly enthusiastic about setting a spending goal for international development funding. I would happily come here and vote to spend 1% of GDP if I thought that it would be spent effectively in countries with good governance. The problem is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"That intervention seeks to put words into my mouth that I did not say in an attempt to score a political point. Congratulations. I am not even going to address that point. The bigger picture is that people will move for a better life, and if there are more people …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

" That may well be the case, but my broader point is that if we have a shorter list and more clarity, we are more likely to achieve those goals.

It is admirable to think long term and strategically, and to address the big challenges, but I crave some simplicity …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2014
Refugee Camps

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2014
Refugee Camps

"Has the Minister’s Department made any assessment of the need for additional medical services, particularly in the Zaatari camp in Jordan? I say that in the context of a debate I held a few months ago in the House, which was on a mobile army surgical hospital facility that Britain …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"6. What steps she is taking to improve the co-ordination of humanitarian support for Syria and the surrounding region...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Secretary of State agree that mobile Army surgical hospital units, which can be built in the UK, funded by DFID and deployed within 24 hours by our military, would be a further effective way of Britain providing humanitarian support to the people of Syria and the surrounding region?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Oct 2013
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

"I never thought I would see the day when the words “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” would be the title of a debate of mine. I grew up watching the television series “MASH”, which partly inspired me to become a doctor. I want to make a serious proposal about a capability …..."
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