Poverty Reduction 2020-09-08
2020-09-08
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The MP highlights the UK's record in providing aid and questions the effectiveness and targeting of such funds.
Can my right hon. Friend assure my constituents that this aid money will be used as effectively as possible and not provided to countries with priorities contrary to poverty reduction?
I am happy to reassure the residents of Ashfield and beyond that reducing poverty will be at the beating heart of the FCDO. That is why we are committed to the Independent Commission for Aid Impact; that is why the Foreign Secretary has appointed Nick Dyer as the first ever envoy on famine prevention and humanitarian affairs; and that is why we have allocated a new £119 million package to look at the threat of the coronavirus and of famine more generally across the bottom billion.
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Assessment & feedback
Did not explicitly address concerns about aid going to countries with priorities contrary to poverty reduction, such as space programmes.
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