Speeches by Cooper.

“It is just a reality where, if institutions have these replenishment funds—sometimes they are three-year replenishments, sometimes there will be five-year replenishments over an extended period of time—countries then manage the profiles, and for the fund as a whole they have to manage it across different years, and for…”

“As soon as is practicable. We will let you know as soon as we have the timetable for doing it.”

“We will do it as rapidly as we can. The process that we are going through at the moment is about the individual country discussions with the Governments, so before there is a public breakdown of it, we have those individual, country-by-country Government discussions.”

“Some of what is important with things like the Global Fund, where we do the big replenishments, is that we are giving predictability because we are giving commitment over a period. It is true that the profiling of those commitments can vary, and some may vary according to where we have other profiling for other kinds o…”

“Yes, exactly.”

“We will do that as swiftly as possible. Ultimately, they of course will be published as part of the annual report. We want to do it significantly before that.”

“Part of the reason we are holding the Global Partnership Conference later this year is in order to continue with that leadership role, which we have had for historic reasons for a long time and are continuing to play. We are continuing to do it in the way in which we are arguing for reform of multilateral institutions.…”

“Sorry, I have an international call that I have to do at 5 pm. We were expecting to finish at 4.30 pm but we have just checked that we can continue. We should do an additional 10-plus minutes or so because of the Division so that we do not lose time.”

“Part of what we are trying to do is to better link it with the policy work and work across the Department. Rather than seeing it simply in terms of what is the funding pot and then the ISF goes off and does things, we want to link individual areas more effectively to the policy objective. Sudan is the easiest area or c…”

“Part of what we have been doing, because we have been shifting the approach, is getting them to think about a different way of working with individual Governments and changing the way that they work as well. Jenny can probably add more detail on this, but we have been getting countries to effectively draw up partnershi…”

“I am going to turn to Nick and Melinda on this one because different bits of the ISF are being funded in different places.”

“Different bits of the ISF funding are being picked up by different Departments and by different budgets. Just say again which area of the ISF you are interested in.”

“Countries, or the country directors, have known for some time that this was the direction of travel.”

“I would say it has to be development combined with policy interventions. I think development on its own will not help if you have particular local conflicts that erupt, different problems with corruption or things that can provoke, state to state rivalries and conflicts, and so on. It has to be an interaction between t…”

“We have been given a three-year allocation. In terms of the FCDO’s ODA funding, that allocation is provided for us. That is why we have done the three-year allocations. I think there have been times in the past where effectively the FCDO’s funding fluctuated depending on what was going on in other Government Department…”

“The UK’s soft power has been a consideration throughout all of this. Development is a crucial part of our foreign policy as well as being a purpose in itself. As you will know, the whole purpose behind the overseas development is around the moral purpose, around UK values, but it is also in the UK national interest. It…”

“There is a mix of issues here. Some of it is that we are still prioritising the fragile and conflict-affected states for funding and continuing to fund support for refugees in country or in the region as well, which is hugely important. I suppose this goes back to the point I was making about us better linking issues a…”

“No. It was just about the withdrawing from the traditional bilateral funding, the donations funding, because there are areas for BII funding and that also includes some of the climate investment, particularly some of the climate finance as well, which will also continue.”

“Thank you very much, Chair, for having us, and thank you to the Committee as well. We have here Baroness Chapman, our Development Minister, from whom I know you will have heard before, Nick Dyer, who is our Second Permanent Under-Secretary and Melinda Bohannon, who is the Director-General who covers development as well…”

“Part of what we have been doing with BII has been building up its capital so that it can then sustainably invest and continue to do so. Nick or Melinda can confirm the figures, but I think we are talking about it continuing to invest very much at current levels going forward, although it will need less new FCDO capital…”