Extract from FCDO questions: India: Economic and Security Relationship - Mar 8

Gareth Davies (Grantham and Stamford) (Con): Does my hon. Friend agree that the UK’s development finance organisation, British International Investment  has a critical role to play in strengthening our economic ties with India and promoting the entrepreneurial spirit that our two countries share?

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Vicky Ford): I completely agree about the importance of British International Investment across the world. I point to the firm statement that the Foreign Secretary gave to the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, in which she emphasised the need to strengthen our economic and defence relationship with India in order to pull it away from the orbit of authoritarian regimes such as Russia.