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Job Creation: Developing Countries

Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 24 June 2014, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Lefroy. The answering member was Baroness Featherstone.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
583 cc33-50WH 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Philip Hollobone | 583 c34WH (Link to this contribution)

Before we start, let me make it clear to all those assembled here that I am not late; I am the em...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 c34WH (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Mr Hollobone. It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship. I would like to draw a...


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Fiona Bruce | 583 c34WH (Link to this contribution)

I commend my hon. Friend and colleague on the International Development Committee for his dedicat...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 c34WH (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. She is absolutely right. Of course, i...

David Simpson | 583 c34WH (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on obtaining the debate. Does he agree that although it is vita...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 c35WH (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his wise intervention. Later I shall come to the iss...

Lord Sharma | 583 c35WH (Link to this contribution)

I, too, commend my hon. Friend for the enormous amount of work he does, not only on the Select Co...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 c35WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend and the hon. Member for Upper Bann (David Simpson) have obviously read my notes in...

Fiona Bruce | 583 c35WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is being generous in giving way so much. Does he agree that one way to raise the l...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 cc35-7WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I will say a little more about that. It is vital that tho...

Fiona Bruce | 583 c37WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend and I have experience of teaching business skills, in Rwanda and Burundi. Does he ...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 c37WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it has been a great privilege and pleasure to share that ...

Lord Sharma | 583 c37WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend has a huge amount of experience of working in Africa, and in some ways the contine...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 cc37-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Such events are vital. The more connection we have with m...

Fiona Bruce | 583 c38WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend may remember that we visited the Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment, the esta...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 cc38-42WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The default rate is often lower in such organisations, which ...

Philip Hollobone | 583 c42WH (Link to this contribution)

If the House was not aware previously of how much the hon. Gentleman knows about international ai...

Alison McGovern | 583 cc42-4WH (Link to this contribution)

Mr Hollobone, I think I express the views of everybody in this debate in offering my thanks to yo...

Baroness Featherstone | 583 cc43-7WH (Link to this contribution)

What a pleasure it is to serve under your unexpected chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Hollobone. Y...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 c47WH (Link to this contribution)

The Minister is absolutely right to point that out. I would further like to congratulate CDC; I u...

Baroness Featherstone | 583 c47WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an excellent intervention. CDC has gone from strength to strength. Not that ...

Alison McGovern | 583 c47WH (Link to this contribution)

On that point, would the Minister be so good as to respond to my question about deadweight loss a...

Baroness Featherstone | 583 c47WH (Link to this contribution)

I will respond to the hon. Lady in a moment on the issue of deadweight loss.

Moving on from...

David Simpson | 583 c47WH (Link to this contribution)

As we believe that these projects and job creation are very important, does the Minister agree th...

Baroness Featherstone | 583 c48WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is obviously right. We work in that direction and we are working as fast as we...

Jeremy Lefroy | 583 c48WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making some extremely important points. One issue that I did not refer to direc...

Baroness Featherstone | 583 cc49-50WH (Link to this contribution)

That is absolutely the case. There are some benign circles that we need to get going in, for exam...

Philip Hollobone | 583 c50WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank all hon. Members who contributed to this important debate. I now suspend the sitting unti...

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