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  • 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

  • Mitchell backs malaria charity single

    International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has joined the Prime Minister David Cameron in backing the Sun and Terry Venables’ World Cup charity single

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

  • UK gives £19 million for Gazan refugees

    UK Government to provide £19m to help support schools and health clinics

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

  • UK contributes to more effective Global Environment Facility

    International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has approved a UK contribution of £210 million to the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

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

  • Mitchell: Full transparency and new independent watchdog

    Giving UK taxpayers value for money in aid

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

  • Full transparency and new independent watchdog will give UK taxpayers value for money in aid

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

  • Support for Overseas Volunteering

    Andrew Mitchell announces support for overseas volunteering on National Volunteers’ Week

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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

  • Summit to help "unbanked" people in developing world

    A DFID-sponsored summit on mobile banking is currently taking place in Rio de Janeiro.

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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

  • 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