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International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

I am delighted to correct the record, Mr Speaker. It is absolutely true that the hon. Member for North East Somerset attached his name to the amendment rather than moving it himself.

Several creative alternatives to the 0.7% figure were advanced in the 54 or so amendments tabled, including 0.35%—try as I might, I simply could not establish the

correlation of this to 0.7%—and 0.67%. It is a bold move to try and renegotiate the terms of a 40-year international agreement to which we are signatories, which states that all developed countries should devote 0.7% of GNI to meet official development assistance commitments. Perhaps most entertainingly given the hon. Members’ apparent hostility towards the 0.7% figure, they advocate that all Ministers should be liable to a £1,000 drop in salary if it is not met, which presumably has made the Minister rather grumpy, as well as putting in place a rather perverse incentive indeed.

10.30 am

On the third grouping we could discern, which is on the calculation of ODA and GNI, there were several technicalities.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
589 cc559-560 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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