Parliamentary search - International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

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441 c1071-125

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for International Development

Legislative stage

Second reading

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Private members' bills proceedings

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House of Commons chamber

International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill.
Wednesday, 22 June 2005
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Linda Gilroy | 441 c1104 (Link to this contribution) I accept that people are not aware of the scale of what is being done, but, as we have seen at demon...

Stephen Pound | 441 c1105 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Gentleman play?

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Pete Wishart | 441 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately not. I was awaiting my invitation, but it did not arrive. I was also at the fantastic...

Hugh Bayley | 441 c1106-10 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House that my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. ...

Greg Mulholland | 441 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) Due to the length of the contributions from some hon. Members, I was beginning to wonder whether the...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 441 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to put on record my support for this valuable initiative by my rig...

John Bercow | 441 c1112 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making an eloquent speech. I agree with her; she is absolutely right. Does she agre...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 441 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman brings me on to my next point, which is that I believe it is very much in our eco...

Tobias Ellwood | 441 c1113-4 (Link to this contribution) You may not be aware, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that the debate is reaching a wider audience than we might...

John Bercow | 441 c1124 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Minister for generously giving way. Does he agree that, given the pur...

Gareth Thomas | 441 c1124-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that that is not an issue on which I can give him satisfaction today. T...

William Cash | 441 c1120 (Link to this contribution) I have made a speech addressing some of the issues raised by clause 8, and I have also made those po...

Mark Simmonds | 441 c1120-2 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, I was present when he raised those matters in Westminster Hall. I sympathis...

Andrew George | 441 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I have a number of concerns about the Bill, including t...

Mark Simmonds | 441 c1117-20 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke), both...

Andrew George | 441 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) I too congratulate the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke) not onl...

William Cash | 441 c1116 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that in the meantime serious consideration should be given to the Bill...

Gareth Thomas | 441 c1124 (Link to this contribution) I was going on to say—this is to help the hon. Gentleman—that budget support must be provided in the...

Gareth Thomas | 441 c1122-4 (Link to this contribution) I join other hon. Members in congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge, Chryston...

William Cash | 441 c1124 (Link to this contribution) The Minister may well know from the letter dated 23 July that I received from the Secretary of State...

John Bercow | 441 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I realise that one cannot extend the parameters of the Bill without limit. Its purpose of course is ...

William Cash | 441 c1099-102 (Link to this contribution) Indeed; I absolutely endorse what my hon. Friend has said. It is very important that such comments s...

Hugh Bayley | 441 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the hon. Gentleman, like me, wants an increase globally in the amount of aid given to...

William Cash | 441 c1099 (Link to this contribution) It would take quite a lot to get me to agree to the latter, but I passionately agree that it is impo...

Ann McKechin | 441 c1094-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. It is important that it is not just our Government but N...

William Cash | 441 c1097-9 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow, North (Ann McKechin). I am also glad to have been a...

Ann McKechin | 441 c1094 (Link to this contribution) : I agree with my hon. Friend, who, before he came to the House, played an important part in directi...

John Bercow | 441 c1094 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will have to blame the hon. Member for Normanton (Ed Balls) for prompting this interve...

John Bercow | 441 c1104 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to quibble with the hon. Lady about the matter and my point was not a criticism. I put...

Linda Gilroy | 441 c1102-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke) o...

Ann McKechin | 441 c1091-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow), who is always very eloquent...

Ed Balls | 441 c1093-4 (Link to this contribution) As a fellow co-sponsor of the Bill, I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. On her present p...

John Bercow | 441 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Harmony is breaking out across the Chamber. It is a relatively uncommon phenomenon, but in ...

Pete Wishart | 441 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with the hon. Gentleman that there should be more debates on international development...

John Bercow | 441 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention, because it underlines the range of m...

Ann McKechin | 441 c1090 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is also a need for an annual discussion in the main Chamber...

John Bercow | 441 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the right hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) and, in particular, t...

Andrew Smith | 441 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and B...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 441 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and allowing me the opportunity to put on recor...

John Barrett | 441 c1086 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a valid point. The drive towards increasing aid is undermined when people see Ca...

William Cash | 441 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is familiar with the Bill that I am introducing for conside...

John Barrett | 441 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I had heard of it, but I shall now look at it in more detail. When people hear about corruption, was...

Andrew Smith | 441 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (John Barrett), and I congratulate hi...

Nicholas Brown | 441 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning), and especiall...

Baroness Browning | 441 c1083-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes; the hon. Lady makes a pertinent point. The scope of the Bill means that the annual report that ...

Anne Moffat | 441 c1086 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for sponsoring the Bill. It is particularly welcome that someone from my ...

John Barrett | 441 c1085-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke) on the intr...

Baroness Browning | 441 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure my hon. Friend that the Public Accounts Committee does exactly that. We have been to ...

Chris McCafferty | 441 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Last night, I told my right hon. Friend that I could think of no more appropriate person to promote ...

Speaker | 441 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady is in danger of making a speech.

William Cash | 441 c1083 (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend and I agree about accountability and the Public Accounts Committee. Does she accept...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I will, but I think that the House will recognise that I have been pretty generous with intervention...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1080 (Link to this contribution) I will make this the last intervention, if I may.

Chris McCafferty | 441 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Tom Clarke | 441 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Having managed to persuade both Houses to enact my Disabled Per...

James Duddridge | 441 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I fully support the Bill. Clause 12 mentions the expenses involved. Given that much of the informati...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend and remind her, if I may, that development goals 1 to 7 include education of ...

Michael Connarty | 441 c1078 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware of the work of Professor Calestous Juma from Kenya, who works at Harva...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1078 (Link to this contribution) The answer to my hon. Friend’s question is absolutely yes. We are seeking to encourage developing co...

Tobias Ellwood | 441 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) Clause 7(2), which would oblige the Secretary of State to provide an assessment of the effectiveness...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Nothing in the Bill or in the millennium development goals prevents that discussion. Humanitarian ai...

James Duddridge | 441 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Tom Clarke | 441 c1078 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. When we have, as I hope we will, annual reports to Parliament, a...

Anne Snelgrove | 441 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on introducing this excellent Bill. Has he considered adding edu...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1078 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. In terms of coherence, particularly across Government Depar...

Colin Challen | 441 c1077-8 (Link to this contribution) The transparency that would be introduced by my right hon. Friend’s Bill, which I welcome, would hel...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1077 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning) is not only a sponsor of the Bill, but an...

Baroness Browning | 441 c1077 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has just made a slip of the tongue: he said, ““unlikely””, but given the re...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Given the commitment of every political party in this House to the objective, I doubt whether any ho...

Jim Devine | 441 c1077 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to be here to support my right hon. Friend. Last night, Bob Geldof said that if any...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow), who has made an extremely important p...

John Bercow | 441 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) I enthusiastically support the right hon. Gentleman’s Bill. Does he agree that in some quarters, som...

Joan Ruddock | 441 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on introducing this enormously important Bill, which I int...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, who also made that point at a recent meeting in London with the United ...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his suggestion. I have not included it in my Bill yet, but I am sure that...

Judy Mallaber | 441 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the Bill. He has discussed the suppo...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend’s contribution and his long-standing interest in these issues. He is a very...

Jim McGovern | 441 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on not only his success in the ballot but introducing this excel...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s contribution. I am sure that she agrees with me that education is...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 441 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill and acknowledge the good work of World Vision, which is based in my constituency,...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I think that the whole House appreciates the excellent work tha...

Andrew Love | 441 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I, along with others, welcome my right hon. Friend’s Bill and his particular commitment to the issue...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1075 (Link to this contribution) The great value of the annual report that will be required if the Bill is approved is that it would ...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Nothing in the Bill prevents continued assistance to countries that are not specifically outlined in...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 441 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) As Chair of the International Development Committee I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, and I...

Eric Forth | 441 c1072 (Link to this contribution) May I add to that? We now know, thanks to the Division that we have just had, that the Bill would ap...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. He will know that there is a great deal of support from his c...

Andrew Smith | 441 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he personally has done to build, deepen and widen...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there is widespread disappointment in the House that my hon. Friend will not seek to ...

Andrew Dismore | 441 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be in the Chamber to support my right hon. Friend’s Bill—in fact, I am so pleased to...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1073 (Link to this contribution) There have been extensive consultations on the Bill. I want Parliament to get as much information as...

Philip Hollobone | 441 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I very much support the Bill, but could it not be improved by removing the cap on scrutinising only ...

Tobias Ellwood | 441 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I echo the comments that have been made about the 10 countries on which the Bill focuses. Will the r...

William Cash | 441 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I am an enthusiastic supporter of the right hon. Gentleman’s proposals and believe that the Governme...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Last year was rightly dominated by the Make...

Eric Forth | 441 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) You will see from the notes in my hand, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I propose to speak for only a few m...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is, we accept, regarded as an expert, not least by himself, on parliamentar...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I agree, and that is reflected in the Bill’s requirem...

Speaker | 441 c1094 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has perhaps given the hon. Lady enough to agree with.

Pete Wishart | 441 c1104-5 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief to allow other hon. Members to speak. I join the chorus of congratulations to the r...

Jo Swinson | 441 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to put on the record my support for the Bill. Although it is important to ...

Tom Clarke | 441 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the support of my hon. Friend, who was beginning to make an interesting speech. If...

Baroness Browning | 441 c1081-3 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely grateful to the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke)...

Helen Jones | 441 c1078 (Link to this contribution) We have heard much about good governance overseas. Does my right hon. Friend agree that his Bill wou...

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Accountability

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Annual reports

Developing countries

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International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill 2005-06

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