My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.
From Andrew Mitchell
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.
It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.
Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.
Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.
All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.
It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.
In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.
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