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Oral Answers to Questions

Robert Courts Excerpts
Wednesday 29th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Courts Portrait Robert Courts (Witney) (Con)
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T8. I recently hosted a meeting with the China-Britain Council to explore opportunities for developing markets. What discussions are taking place between the Department for International Trade and DFID to ensure that trade joins aid as a way to help the developing world?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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We have close discussions with our colleagues at the Department for International Trade. The trade and aid programme has enabled more than 40 countries to put development at the heart of their own plans.