International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

My Lords, in moving Amendment 1, I make it clear at the outset that I have no objection to the Go...

My Lords, I give my full support to the amendment that the noble Lord, Lord Butler, has just move...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Butler, in his normal way, spoke extremely powerfully. His argumen...

My Lords, I know that the mere appearance on the Marshalled List of the dread words “the Treasury...

My Lords, I fully endorse and support the two important points made by the noble Lord, Lord Davie...

My Lords, I rise to support this amendment for non-Treasury reasons, which may be a relief to nob...

My Lords, I am very much aware of ex-Treasury Ministers speaking, but nevertheless I want strongl...

My Lords, I suspect I am in a minority on this side so I start by declaring an interest. I was in...

My Lords, I strongly support the point so powerfully made by my noble friend Lord Butler, for rea...

My Lords, I am a mere observer of government over quite a long time. Obviously, we all support th...

My Lords, it is 45 years since I walked out of the Treasury, never to return. However, that was a...

My Lords, I have no interest to declare save that some of my best friends are in the Treasury. Th...

My Lords, I speak as somebody who was part of the aid programme for a number of years with the Co...

My Lords, I speak from a position of deep ignorance, having had no relationship with the aid prog...

My Lords, I will make a brief point in response to the point that was made, and the point made by...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for bringing this amendment before us and welcome the level of atte...

I am extremely grateful to my noble friend. Before she sits down, will she address the point that...

Outcomes and results are a major focus of what DfID does; I hope that will reassure the noble Lor...

My Lords, I similarly acknowledge the wide experience of those who have put their names to the am...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for his reference to the noble Lord,...

Moved by

Lord Lipsey

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 5, leave out from “Kingdom” to end of ...

My Lords, I very much regret that I was not able to be here to move this amendment in Committee, ...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group, which give effect to the target being achieved ...

I am grateful and I have been listening very carefully to my noble friend. Perhaps he could clari...

It is not intended to be each year of the five years but an average of or a rolling over the five...

My Lords, this debate is essentially about flexibility, and this measure is essentially one which...

May I help my noble friend? These amendments consider a rolling average of meeting the target, no...

I do not know on what amendment I am going to make this speech if I do not make it on this one. B...

My Lords, perhaps I may just ask noble Lords, if they would not mind, to stick to the amendment i...

That is certainly what I am about to do. The third MP was my great-grand-uncle, a son of the rich...

My Lords, this amendment, like the last one, is about more than public expenditure control, impor...

My Lords, Clause 3(2) states:

“Accordingly, the fact that the duty in section 1 has not bee...

My Lords, I entirely understand and appreciate the sentiments behind these amendments as they see...

My Lords, will my noble friend confirm that the international target is 0.7% but that it is not 0...

I can inform my noble friend that the DAC measures this on an annual basis. That is why the UK ne...

My Lords, I do not think that any new arguments have been put forward on Report on these amendmen...

Will my noble friend give way?

Of course I will because I know that my noble friend enjoys intervening on me. It would be churli...

I have to tell him that I can think of better things to do on a Friday morning. He keeps referrin...

My noble friend is repeating a point he put to me in Committee and says from a sedentary position...

Oh!

Perhaps I may now restore the tone and tenor of the debate and respond to the noble Lord, Lord Br...

My noble friend mentioned my name. I hope he will accept the clarification that he did not answer...

I was going to come back and clear up that point. However, I will finish this element first. The ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who participated in this debate. I am sure that the political h...

Moved by

Lord Lawson of Blaby

16A: Clause 2, page 2, line 15, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Butler, introduced his excellent amendment, he prefaced it by...

Would my noble friend also agree that the whole phenomenon of remittances has played a major part...

It is certainly true that remittances are important, but I was including them in private capital ...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment, which I think is an important one, particularly ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their amendment, which seeks to require the Secretary of State ...

Perhaps I may clarify one point, which bears upon what the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, said, althoug...

The noble Lord has it absolutely right. I am saying that there is no dichotomy between them. It i...

My Lords, I thank my noble friends for their amendment and the case that they made, which I under...

My Lords, I listened very carefully to what the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, the promoter of this Bil...

Moved by

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

21: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, the amendment has the effect that in the event that the ODA’s expenditure is greater th...

My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment and I support it. I should add that the noble Lord...

My Lords, I support this amendment and what has been said by my noble friend Lord Forsyth and the...

My Lords, I associate myself with the amendment and particularly with the remarks made by my nobl...

My Lords, I suspect that it will not surprise the House to learn that I agree with everything tha...

My Lords, the Minister will recall that at Second Reading and in Committee I stressed my support ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, invited me to be consistent in my attitude towards this a...

My Lords, the speeches of the noble Lord, Lord Reid, and the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup...

I entirely agree with what my noble friend is saying. However, of course the root of this problem...

In that case, I would have thought that we should redefine aid to take into account the need to b...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords for tabling this amendment, and I agree that both the ODA targe...

Can the Minister clarify whether she disputes the fact that, according to this latest study, the ...

I have just given the Government’s commitment. Interestingly, I also have here the figures for de...

May I give the noble Baroness another chance to answer the question from my noble friend Lord Wes...

I remind the noble Lord that we have a general election between now and then, and although we are...

I am grateful to the Minister but I have to come back on this. We understand that, tragically fro...

I am very happy to share these figures with noble Lords but I am making a comparison with the aid...

I thank the noble Baroness. She has just asserted that there has been considerable continuity as ...

That is an interesting point. The problem with the aid budget is that you do not see the level of...

My Lords, if the House will forgive me, I will focus on the specific amendment as it affects the ...

My Lords, can I clarify what the noble Lord said and that he accepts that the first duty of any G...

I do not think that there is any question that we owe our liberties and freedoms to defence spend...

My Lords, I am a very humble sort of chap. I have sat here this morning, participated in the deba...

I trust that I made it clear in answer to my noble friend Lord Tugendhat. He made the very reason...

I am rather disappointed with that answer. I am happy to give the Minister another go as she did ...

We are talking about a Bill relating to development. We are talking about a 0.7% target to do wit...

We can all take it from that that the Government are not prepared to say on the record, with all ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for allowing me to intervene. This is an important point for reco...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord, who speaks from experience, and I agree with everything he ...

Perhaps I may clarify that we will be giving no further thought to the amendment. I also clarify ...

If that was designed to prevent me dividing the House, it was a pretty good example of negative a...

Moved by

Lord Hollick

22: Clause 5, page 2, line 35, at end insert “by the Independen...

My Lords, we now come to the part of the Bill relating to scrutiny. It is particularly important ...

My Lords, I shall speak mainly to my Amendment 24, which is grouped with the amendment that has j...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Lawson has said, these are two amendments aimed at the same tar...

I am sorely tempted now, after all this time. Let me reassure my noble friend Lord Hollick that, ...

Before the noble Lord sits down, will he explain, having said how important it is and that he is ...

The simple fact of the matter is that I am satisfied with the current arrangements and that we ha...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Collins, for his support. I think that we all agree that i...

My Lords—

Perhaps I might complete what I am going to say.

The whole thrust of this Parliament’s poli...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. The question of creating a new quango does not a...

My noble friend will have heard what the noble Lord said about respecting how ICAI is operating n...

Before my noble friend sits down, by way of analogy, what would she think about a company which w...

I think that my noble friend has missed the elements where I mentioned the way in which the Secre...

My Lords, Amendment 22 is in similar terms to an amendment tabled in Committee, and Amendments 24...

We are listening to the noble Lord with great attention and he has made powerful points about ICA...

I understand the point that my noble friend makes but the purpose of the Bill, as I indicated to ...

If my noble friend will allow me—

Perhaps I could say that, after the Minister has spoken, only short questions of elucidation to t...

Ordinarily, I would give way but on the basis of that guidance and a reflection on the Companion,...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this. There seems to be a large measure of a...

Moved by

Lord Butler of Brockwell

25: Clause 6, page 3, line 1, leave out subsection ...

My Lords, the House will be relieved to know that I can move this amendment very briefly because ...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment. If we are getting into gesture politics now that we a...

My Lords, the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Butler, seeks to put in place a further hurdle be...

My Lords, I am slightly surprised by the “extremely unusual”. The House will recall that at the e...

As I say, this Bill, unlike the discussion on care, which I remember very clearly, has had overwh...

My Lords, this is a sunrise clause amendment before we debate a sunset clause amendment, neither ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for his generous words. He said that there would be a p...