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Integrated Review

Proceeding contribution from Roger Gale (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 March 2021. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Integrated Review.

I share the view expressed by the Father of the House, my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing West (Sir Peter Bottomley), at the start. I am proud to be a member of a party which, in its last manifesto, said that it would spend 0.7% of gross national income on overseas aid, but we all know that because of the fall in GNI, the 0.7% represents less money than it did a year ago. Now is not the time to cut our aid to Yemen or to withdraw our support for voluntary services overseas, so will my right hon. Friend consider bridging the gap by additionally donating extra supplies of the world’s finest, safest covid vaccine—the Oxford vaccine—to developing countries?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
691 c178 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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