division_name: International Aid: Treasury Update
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c173.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the House has not&#8230;had an opportunity for a decisive vote on maintaining the UK&#8217;s commitment to the statutory target of 0.7%. I expect the Government to find a way to have this important matter debated and to allow the House formally to take an effective decision.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-06-07">7 June</phrase> 2021; Vol. 696, c. 667.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c173.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House has considered the Written Ministerial Statement relating to Treasury Update on International Aid, which was made to the House on Monday <phrase class="date" code="2021-07-12">12 July</phrase>.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c176.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Government would consequently return to spending 0.7% of GNI on international aid in the next calendar year&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-07-12">12 July</phrase> 2021; Vol. 699, c. 4WS.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c180.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We will proudly maintain our commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on development&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c180.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We will proudly maintain our commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on development&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c180.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a commitment enshrined in law and one to which the new Department&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c180.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will honour its responsibilities.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c180.3/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;as an active, internationalist, problem-solving and burden-sharing nation.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c181.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Millions of Yemeni children, women and men desperately need aid to live. Cutting aid is a death sentence.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c183.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;These cuts will be devastating for women and girls and their families across the world.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c184.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;spending huge sums of British taxpayers&#8217; money as though we were some independent Scandinavian NGO&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c184.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;shovelling money out the door&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c188.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a sustainable current budget surplus&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c191.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We are committed to the 0.7% of GNI commitment&#8230;We want the aid budget and the development know-how and expertise that we have in DFID&#8212;it has done a fantastic job&#8230;at the beating heart of our international decision-making processes.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-06-18">18 June</phrase> 2020; Vol. 677, c. 947.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c199.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;any substantial change in gross national income&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c199.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;fiscal circumstances&#8230;in particular, the likely impact of&#8230;the target on taxation, public spending and public borrowing&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c206.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;giant cashpoint in the sky&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-06-16">16 June</phrase> 2020; Vol. 677, c. 670.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c211.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We are proud of our peace-building and humanitarian efforts around the world, particularly in war-torn or divided societies, and of our record in helping to reduce global poverty&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c211.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We will proudly maintain our commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on development&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c219.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this Government&#8217;s commitment on international aid is a tangible example of&#8230;leadership&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-10-20">20 October</phrase> 2015; Vol. 600, c. 793.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c219.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;built into the formula: our payments go up in times of plenty and fall back when our economy is stretched.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c223.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Charity is patient, is kind.&#8221;</p>