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“Thank you, that is very clear. Perhaps, Mr Novakovich, you could very briefly speak to some of those allocative decisions around how the cost of insurance, for example, influences your members’ deployment.”

“Thank you, Steve, for sharing very powerful and difficult experiences and for those really concerning reflections on the broader context. Turning to Anna now, could you describe a bit more the work that your organisation does and some of the threats and challenges that you face?”

“Thank you, Anna. Could you describe a bit more the kind of impacts that can have on you as individuals and your own lives, your physical and emotional wellbeing and a bit more about what you have talked about there, the stresses?”

“Do you feel that you are getting enough support? How does your team put mechanisms in place to deal with that stress and the challenges that you are facing?”

“It sounds as if it is discouraging people from coming in to work in your world, but do you find that it is discouraging your close colleagues locally from doing the work?”

“I understand. Lastly, you have described some of the support mechanisms in place but do you feel that they are well-resourced enough? Do you feel that you are getting the support you need from partners and your donors, for example?”

“Going back to a point that Mr Novakovic touched on, there have, at least prior to the situation we are in now, been improvements with donors, particularly the FCDO, and the way that safety is handled. Are you able to speak from your experience to some of those improvements and also why there is further space for improv…”

“Thank you, that is very clear. Perhaps, Mr Novakovich, you could very briefly speak to some of those allocative decisions around how the cost of insurance, for example, influences your members’ deployment.”

“Thank you, Steve, for sharing very powerful and difficult experiences and for those really concerning reflections on the broader context. Turning to Anna now, could you describe a bit more the work that your organisation does and some of the threats and challenges that you face?”

“Thank you, Anna. Could you describe a bit more the kind of impacts that can have on you as individuals and your own lives, your physical and emotional wellbeing and a bit more about what you have talked about there, the stresses?”

“Do you feel that you are getting enough support? How does your team put mechanisms in place to deal with that stress and the challenges that you are facing?”

“We have heard a bit about the support that has come through in the form of direct cash transfers—cash assistance. Could you tell us a bit more about the benefits of that support that you have received?”

“We have heard a bit about the support that has come through in the form of direct cash transfers—cash assistance. Could you tell us a bit more about the benefits of that support that you have received?”

“Does the hon. Member not agree that if such a rate is good enough for Norway, a clean energy superpower, it is good enough for the United Kingdom?”

“I declare an interest: as a member of the International Development Committee, I heard the news of the cuts to overseas development assistance to fund a rise in defence spending with a heavy heart. However, I wholeheartedly agree with the Prime Minister’s decision. Does he agree that international development and secur…”

“Does the hon. Member not recognise that one of the primary challenges faced by the sectors he mentions is that of workers’ inability to afford to live in the areas where they work, such as in Cornwall, and that the changes to stamp duty land tax will go a long way towards improving the ability of workers to be housed i…”

“And you were able to monitor the development of these overheads, whether internal or external?”

“That is interesting to hear, given the complexity that you a moment ago outlined, and how you might end up perhaps straying from some of these more clinical objectives. You have partly answered my next question about how things evolved over time, but the difference, as I see it today, is that today you have a huge amou…”

“This question is to Stefan. Thank you for giving us this very rich picture of how one might stray from this objective function that you mentioned at the start, maximising the impact of every pound spent. You have outlined DFID’s original framework is how you get there but can you give us a bit more of a summary of how …”

“Would you say at least when you were there, but still today, you saw that the value-for-money assessment was very much secondary to those allocative decisions that had already been made?”