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Written Question
Nigeria
Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Government received or has had access to the report on crude oil theft in Nigeria, prepared by a US Administration delegation sent to Nigeria by President Obama in December 2013.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

The US administration delegation met with British Government Officials in Abuja during their visit to Nigeria and we are aware of their report and its findings.

Written Question
Nigeria
Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Government has made of financial links between crude oil theft in Nigeria and (a) Boko Haram and (b) wider instability in that country.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

We have received no evidence of a financial link between oil theft and Boko Haram, although our assessment is that there is a financial link between oil theft, organised crime and insecurity within the Niger Delta region.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"May I return the Secretary of State to the issue raised by the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Nick Smith)? As she will know, the Government of the 14 overseas territories were in London last week, and published action plans last year. The British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Oct 2013
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

"The Marshall facility in Cambridge specialises in building modular medical equipment. Is it not a key point that the initial funding for the equipment could come from the DFID budget under the existing definitions, which might ease the concerns of other countries about the military aspects of the facility?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Dec 2011
Oral Answers to Questions

"T6. Given the Department’s focus on giving aid to countries that are considered fragile, will my right hon. Friend update the House on the current estimates for fraud and corruption losses this year, and confirm that resources are being reallocated to tackle those, so that aid gets to those most …..."
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