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From Closed organisation: Department for International Development (DFID)
From The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP
  • UK’s Afghan aid effort to increase by 40%

    The UK’s aid effort in Afghanistan will be expanded by 40%, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

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

  • Lord Ashdown to lead review of emergency aid

    The way the UK responds to humanitarian emergencies such as the Haiti earthquake will be the subject of a comprehensive review

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

  • Young pupil’s plea for children’s education

    International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell joined African leaders on Sunday to hear a young girl’s plea to deliver education for 72 million children worldwide.

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

  • New UK humanitarian support for Niger and Chad

    Hundreds of thousands of people in Niger and Chad will benefit from support to prevent the threat of imminent starvation, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

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

  • World Population Day

    The Secretary of State statement on World Population Day

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

  • Statement on aid transparency

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

  • Mitchell hails new, powerful agency for women

    The Government today welcomed a new era for women in developing countries as UN members agreed details of a new UN agency for women and gender issues.

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

  • Cost-saving measures to boost help for world's poor

    International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced further cash-saving measures as part of an ongoing drive to get value for money out of the Government’s aid budget.

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

  • Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Financial Stability

    Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament by the Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell.

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

  • Praise for school's links with Sri Lanka and Pakistan

    Andrew Mitchell today met with children from a Keighley school to find out about their educational partnership with schools in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

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

  • Andrew Mitchell speech to UN Economic and Social Council

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

  • Andrew Mitchell delivers first overseas speech in Washington

    Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell's first overseas speech given at Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC

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

  • Andrew Mitchell delivers first overseas speech in Washington

    Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell's first overseas speech given at Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC, Friday 25 June.

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

  • Mitchell welcomes Oxfam’s Niger appeal

    Oxfam today launched a £7 million emergency appeal to help more than 800,000 of the most vulnerable people across West Africa

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

  • International assessment sets out action to meet MDGs

    Helen Clark, head of UNDP launches international assessment of action needed to meet MDGs.

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

  • Aid budget to be refocused to deliver better results

    The UK will focus its aid on fewer countries in a move designed to increase the impact of funding on the world’s poorest people

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

  • EU countries ‘must honour aid promises’

    International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has today called on EU nations to maintain their commitment to international aid, despite the financial crisis.

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

  • Andrew Mitchell in Pakistan

    More than three million children will benefit from free textbooks in the conflict-affected province of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa

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

  • UK pledges new support for Afghanistan

    The UK is set to provide new support to Afghanistan in a drive to create more jobs, improve policing and strengthen the effectiveness of Afghan government, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today.

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

  • UK to review multilateral aid spend

    The UK Government is to reassess its funding of international agencies such as the World Bank and United Nations in a drive to direct money at only the most effective organisations

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