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From Minister of State for International Development
  • British aid will help more than a quarter of a million people caught up in the humanitarian crisis in Yemen

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

  • Britain will work to secure a new arms trade treaty this summer to introduce international regulations of the arms trade for the first time.

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

  • Speech by International Development Minister Alan Duncan at the International Institute for Strategic Studies on the need for an ethical treaty for the arms industry

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

  • Today young people in Scotland were encouraged to apply for a 'life-changing' volunteering scheme to help tackle poverty overseas.

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

  • The DFID-funded project inspires around five million young Kenyans to take action to improve their lives

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

  • Ahead of Fairtrade fortnight Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell and Minister Alan Duncan sampled some of the UK's finest Fairtrade teas and coffees.

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

  • School presented with International Award by Minister for International Development, Alan Duncan

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

  • William Hague and Alan Duncan pledged Britain's support for Yemen’s transition in a meeting with Nobel Laureate Tawakul Karman

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

  • The Minister of State went on a field visit to see trade and development during the country’s 20th anniversary

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

  • The UK will create jobs, boost business and support the crack down on crime in the Caribbean

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

  • Minister of State Alan Duncan visits schoolchildren in Northern Ireland

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

  • Children from Belfast primary schools today took the chance to show ministers their work with their counterparts in the developing world.

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

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

  • Britain has set out how it plans to tackle poverty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories over the next four years

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

  • New emergency humanitarian support from the UK will help to tackle rapidly worsening conditions in Yemen.

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

  • International Development Minister Alan Duncan visited Vietnam this week to finalise the role UK aid will play in the country over the next five years.

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

  • The first delivery of British aid to help thousands of children in Yemen avoid hunger and malnutrition has reached the north of the country.

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

  • Next week Michelle Bachelet will make her first visit to the UK since she was appointed Head of UN Women. We’re calling for questions you would like her to answer.

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

  • International Development Minister Alan Duncan today called for additional investment in the GAVI Alliance to fund immunisation programmes in the world's poorest countries and help stop the deaths of millions of childre…

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

  • In two speeches this week, Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan has been explaining where and how British development funding will be delivered over the next four years.

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