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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2. Given the importance of the automotive industry to the UK, and particularly to the west midlands, does the Secretary of State agree that it is essential to invest in test environments for self-driving cars to ensure that the UK can compete with other countries that want to become the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Nov 2017
Student Loans Company

"When we talk about student loans and access to university, we often quite rightly talk about disadvantaged students. Does my hon. Friend recognise that the current system has created opportunities for such students?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2. Businesses in my constituency and across the west midlands need the investment and the skills to continue to thrive and flourish. Will the Minister update me on the work the Government are doing in that regard?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Oct 2017
Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill

"I congratulate my hon. Friends the Members for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) and for Colchester (Will Quince) on all their work on the Bill. I wish it well. I have just one question. Will these rights also cover adoptive parents?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Oct 2017
Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill

"I support the Bill and congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) on it. It is worth our remembering how successful he has been with private Members’ Bills. Last year, I believe, he succeeded in introducing “Claudia’s law”. I should like to think that this …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Oct 2017
International Investment

"I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement and his recognition of the importance of not only large strategic businesses, but the supply chain. Does he agree that it is vital that the rules for the scrutiny of foreign investment are clear, certain and proportionate?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Oct 2017
Nuclear Safeguards Bill

"I may be the last speaker before the wind-ups, but it is none the less a pleasure to contribute to this debate and to follow the eloquent speeches and learned contributions that we have heard. In particular, my hon. Friend the Member for Wells (James Heappey) spoke with such knowledge …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Jul 2017
Energy Price Cap

"Going back to switching, does the Secretary of State think that more needs to be done to make it much easier to switch, particularly for our more vulnerable constituents?..."
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Written Question
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Overseas Aid
Tuesday 5th April 2016

Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's spending was in Overseas Development Aid in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) the first 10 months of 2015-16; and what the recipient countries of that aid were.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone

Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) is recorded and reported on a calendar year basis. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is supporting economic development and social welfare in developing countries through a number of programmes. The Newton Fund builds science and innovation partnerships between the UK and 15 emerging economies; and the new Global Challenges Research Fund will help to put the UK at the forefront of research into some of the world's greatest challenges. BIS spent £48.5m in 2013, and £79m in 2014. This spend is broken down by recipient countries in the table. Where spend cannot be attributed to an individual country, it is attributed to appropriate groups. Details on 2015 calendar year ODA spend will be published in the National Statistics publication ‘Provisional UK ODA as a proportion of Gross National Income (GNI)’ on 1 April 2016, at a department level. Country level ODA information will be published in Statistics on International Development due for release in October 2016.

Department for Business Innovation and Skills Overseas Development Aid 2013 to 2014

Amounts Extended (£thousands)

Country

2013

2014

Africa, regional

3,987

9,840

Asia, regional

179

268

Brazil

65

180

Burkina Faso

180

182

Chile

30

China

913

2,885

Colombia

193

Developing countries, unspecified

19,868

33,968

Egypt

79

Ethiopia

64

86

Gambia

9,610

9,347

Ghana

566

598

India

1,322

5,407

Indonesia

190

198

Kazakhstan

298

Kenya

1,714

2,342

Lesotho

130

Malawi

156

1,819

Malaysia

220

226

Mali

161

Mauritania

169

118

Mexico

202

420

Nigeria

52

184

Oceania, regional

70

59

Papua New Guinea

860

522

Peru

199

190

Philippines

10

Sao Tome & Principe

95

Senegal

65

South Africa

1,701

1,573

South Asia, regional

327

641

South of Sahara, regional

441

Sri Lanka

14

Sudan

449

Tanzania

535

662

Thailand

12

Turkey

11

Uganda

4,767

5,547

Vietnam

12

Zambia

188

204

Total

48,544

79,027