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  • UK reaffirms partnership with Kenya

    Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham, and Department for International Development Minister Stephen O’Brien, met Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga on 28 May following his earlier meeting with British Prime Minister Davi…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Mitchell: Taxpayers' aid saves lives

    The Secretary of State writes to the Telegraph

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • International leadership on aid

    The Queen's Speech today underlined the government's commitment that 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) will be spent in overseas development aid every year from 2013.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Queen's Speech: International development spending from 2013

    Notes on: "My Government is committed to spend nought point seven per cent of gross national income in development aid from 2013."

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Mitchell: Aid to work harder for Afghanistan

    International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell has announced that aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan needs to to get higher priority

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Secretaries of State visit Afghanistan

    The Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Defence, and International Development are today visiting Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Stephen O'Brien appointed DFID Minister

    Stephen O'Brien MP has been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Freeze on UK-based awareness projects

    An immediate freeze on new funding for ‘awareness projects’, in a drive to refocus aid spending, was announced today by DFID Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Alan Duncan appointed Minister of State

    Alan Duncan appointed Minister of State

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Andrew Mitchell appointed Secretary of State

    Andrew Mitchell MP has been appointed as Secretary of State for International Development.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • What happens once a general election has been called

    What to expect on the DFID website

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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government