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Development Aid

Commons · Question 66932 · Tabled 11 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

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Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his letter to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, dated 16 June 2025, what changes he plans to make in the context of his comments on (a) working as an in

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Answered by Stephen Doughty, 21 Jul 2025

We have been clear that we must transform what development means to respond to the global context. For too long it has been the Global North telling the Global South how to work - we will work in partnership, not paternalism.When moving from donor to inve...