Asked by: Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is giving to countries in Africa to improve their capacity to trade.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
My Department’s core mission is and will always be to combat poverty. Post-Brexit, Britain can be a global leader in helping developing countries build their access to international markets and in ensuring that it is the poorest that benefit from these trading relationships. In taking this leadership role, we will be doing something that we can rightly be proud of, whilst also creating the UK’s trading partners of tomorrow.
Asked by: Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on introducing a facility for rolling over funding in her Department's budget in order to avoid expenditure being concentrated at the end of financial years and to ensure that annual targets for development expenditure are met.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
The Department for International Development Secretary of State has not had any discussions with the Chancellor on the introduction of a facility to roll-over funding.