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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill (First sitting)

"Q May I follow up very briefly on three specific points? First, if having private sector expertise in CDC helps it focus on the commercial return element, sustainable investments and so on, which I totally accept, would a partial flotation at some stage not both achieve Richard Fuller’s earlier …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill (First sitting)

"Q Sixty-three countries at the moment. What about Palestine, for example?

Rory Stewart: This very interesting discussion has gone back and forth. As you are aware, the International Development Committee asked CDC to look strongly at investment to deal with the crisis around Syria and at what we can …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill (First sitting)

"Q A very quick question for you, Tom—probably a one-word answer. If I got you right earlier, you were calling for a more effective measurement of the quality of jobs generated by CDC. Do we have such a measurement in the UK?

Tom McDonald: A one-word answer would be …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill (First sitting)

"Q Thank you. Saranel, it is clear that you would not want to see any money going from the taxpayer to CDC that would mean either selling it or closing it down, or possibly both. How would that help DFID achieve its goals of supporting businesses and jobs in …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill (First sitting)

"Q Okay. So you are against specific investments that have been, or might be, made. Are you against investment in businesses full stop?

Saranel Benjamin: I am against using business to conduct development in the global south...."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill (First sitting)

"Q So you do not believe that creating jobs through business is a constructive way of meeting development aims?

Saranel Benjamin: I don’t think that that is the only thing that should be done in terms of development, but from CDC’s point of view, that seems to be not …..."
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Written Question
Africa: Electricity
Monday 31st October 2016

Asked by: Richard Graham (Conservative - Gloucester)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent progress has been made on the Energy Africa access campaign.

Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm

Energy Africa aims to develop compacts with up to 14 African countries to remove policy and regulatory barriers to off-grid solar market expansion. Eleven countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Uganda) have signed interim partnership agreements. The compact development process is well under way in these countries and one has been agreed with Sierra Leone. Several others are in final negotiations and are expected to be agreed in the coming months.

DFID is also providing technical assistance and other programmatic support to help with the implementation of the compacts.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Mar 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q7. In National Apprenticeship Week, I am sure the Prime Minister will join me in thanking employers who have created 6,500 apprenticeships in Gloucester since 2010, the Gloucester Citizen for its support, and all the apprentices themselves, including my first apprentice Laura Pearsall, who is now Gloucester’s youngest ever city …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Dec 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 16 December...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Dec 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"May I welcome today’s fall in unemployment to 5.2%, the lowest level in almost 10 years?

Stalking is a horrible crime. Dr Eleanor Aston, a GP in Gloucester and resident of Cheltenham, was harassed for several years by a stalker who slashed her tyres, hacked her water pipe, cut off …..."
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