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International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

The Minister says that if we spend all of this money we will be safer, but as we have spent more on overseas aid our security threat level has actually gone up, not down, so that clearly is not working. We

are being painted a picture suggesting that if we spend all of this money,people will stop coming in from Calais and poverty will be alleviated around the world, but we are spending the money, so this clearly is not working. Why is it that we are opposed to welfare dependency at home but we are entrenching it abroad?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
585 c1181 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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