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The All Party Group actively promotes and raises the awareness of international development issues in the UK Parliament via a range of parliamentary tools and methods. These include the suggested tabling of parliamentary questions (both written and oral), the proposal of Early Day Motions (EDMs) (designed to raise issues for MPs to put a signature of support towards) and to highlight EDMs already laid.

The Group also encourages and provides a regular briefing service for Parliamentary debates and speeches either in the Main Chamber or adjournment Debates in Westminster Hall.

The All Party Group also performs a regular monitoring service of all relevant parliamentary activity in these areas; below is an extract of recent key speeches, parliamentary questions and EDMs within the House.

Recent Parliamentary Activity

Parliamentary Questions

The Next Parliamentary Questions on International Development will be held on Wednesday 30th April

Wednesday 12th March

Questions were adressed in the Chamber relating to Palestinian Support, Elections in Developing Countries and HIV/AIDS in relation to MDG 7. Details of the Quetions and Answers can be found here

Written answers were produced in relation to questions on Budgetary Support to Developing Countries, HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries, The Doha Round of Talks with the WTO, Tackling Financial Crime in Nigeria, The International Development Association, Poverty Reduction, Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Assistance to Kenya, Malaria reduction, Departmental Cost  Effectiveness and Expenditure, Development Awareness and Community Engagement, NDPBs and Animal Welfare and The Politics and Government of Nepal. For further details, please see Hansard, or follow this link

Wednesday 30th January: 

The Secretary of State for International Development, Rt Hon Douglas Alexander was asked oral questions regarding the situations in Gaza, Afghanistan and The Palestine as well as on issues regarding DFIDs strategy on Children and Orphans with HIV/AIDS and the UKs Humanitarian Assistance Overseas.

Written Answers were provided on issues relating to DRC, The Maghreb, Elections, Pakistan, Africa, Overseas Aid, Pakistan: Education, St Helena: Airports and Zambia Floods. For Details of these Questions and Answers, Please follow this link.

Wednesday 5th December:

Statements on the Humanitarian state of Burma and Zimbabwe by Mr Shahid Malik, Under-Secretary of State for International Development and Mr Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development respectively.

Parliamentary Questions - Responses from Mr. Gareth Thomas, Mr. Shahid Malik and Ms. Megg Munn

APPG Oral Questions

15 November 2007

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MDGs - The Pace and Direction of Interventions 

Debates

February 2008

TREATY OF LISBON - INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Details on the Debate can be found Here

January 2008

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT -WESTMINSTER HALL

Gaza

Details of the Debate can be found Here

November 2007

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

Early Day Motions

EDM 1219   

The World Can't Wait Appeal

19 July 2005

McKechin, Anne

That this House welcomes the Government's leadership at the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005; notes with concern that at the halfway point of the Millennium Development Goals the world is off-track to meet the key targets on eradicating poverty by 2015; notes the continued public mandate for urgent political action to end poverty and climate chaos; calls on the Government to use its influence in Europe and within the G8 to ensure debt cancellation and more and better aid, trade justice, healthcare, education, water and sanitation for all, and firm plans to prevent catastrophic climate change and address its impact; and calls on the Government, Europe and the G8 to acknowledge that the world can't wait to make poverty history."

This already been signed by 219 MPs (you can see if your MP is among them by following the link above)