Speeches by Law.

“You have done it before in countries that were previously lacking access, such as the ones you now describe. Clearly, you are firing on a lot of cylinders: you have a good product, you have good distribution networks and you have cracked the financing nut in creative ways. What about policy? How does the policy environ…”

“Ned, d.light has reached over 190 million people so far with off-grid solar, which is incredible scale. What do you think has been key to achieving that scale?”

“Getting that ambition from FCDO to at least try to collect that data?”

“Away from some of the consternation of this place, a glance at His Majesty’s Treasury distributional analysis will reveal that the original decision to protect the most vulnerable, the Budget that followed, the spring statement and—I hope—the spending review have been some of the most progressive fiscal decisions we ha…”

“T9. I thank the Minister for his previous response, and I am glad to see that Cornwall’s socioeconomic challenges are reflected in the fact that 11 mission priority neighbourhoods have been identified in mid-Cornwall alone. We have talked about funding for mission critical neighbourhoods, but what steps are being taken…”

“I was elected to this place on the back of a pledge to revitalise the towns in my constituency. With the high street in St Austell in a sorry state, I am delighted to have been able to take the first steps towards revitalising it by ending the impasse at the site of the now derelict General Wolfe pub and moving my cons…”

“6. What steps she is taking to support high streets.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I welcome the Government’s renewed focus on place-based policy through their plan for neighbourhoods, and the commitment of £1.5 billion to tackle deprivation through long-term investment, rather than bungs and short-term sticking-plasters. The plan rightly …”

“Briefly, is there a country-specific approach to value for money to support what you have just said?”

“Thank you, that was very clear on the purpose of our ODA. Which areas of development do you feel that private finance could be most useful in contributing to value for money?”

“Yes, very briefly. Priorities for the main estimates are, I trust, hot-off-the-press new. Do they provide a good indication of the overall direction of travel for development policy? If so, how do they interact with our wider development goals?”

“Very briefly, before turning to a different topic, I think these are very interesting times that we live in if we are saying that we want to make greater use of, say, development finance and financial tools for development, while at the same time we are arguing that we need to be doing increased work around tackling ir…”

“When we pressed your predecessor on the much talked about £11.6 billion, which I have certainly heard a lot about from my constituents, I think we received a perhaps equivocal answer on whether that was truly new money or whether it was programmatic money already part of the UK’s development programming. Is that commit…”

“Lastly on this topic, are there things that we can do that do not involve investing or spending huge amounts of money to promote the goal that you have identified in the estimates memorandum of restoring the UK’s leadership on climate and nature finance?”

“Does the Minister agree that part of ensuring that we can take more control and offer more choice to residents is allowing residents to take greater control for themselves and, in the process, ensure better value for the services that they need on their estates?”

“Finally, how does the overall focus of the ISF sit alongside the broader sustainable development goals and the spirit of the ODA rules, do you think? Sorry, there are two quite big questions to answer.”

“I will turn to Mike on the same question. Where would you like to see greater, perhaps briefly, clarity in the aims and objectives of the integrated security fund?”

“It is interesting to hear some of the very tangible examples of the projects the fund has worked on. Taking a step back, starting with Nic, could you maybe explain a bit more where you would like to see greater clarity around the objectives and overall aims of the now integrated security fund?”

“Turning back to Nic, on that question of the strategic direction, how have you seen previous national security strategies guiding the use of the conflict, stability and security fund?”

“Briefly, before turning to Mike on the same question of overall aims and focus, what do you think the political impetus is for that increasing focus on the symptoms, as you described?”