Extracts from Lords business - July 3
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 07:45
Extract from Lords debate on the Development Aid Budget Lord
Purvis of Tweed (LD):...This is important not only to demonstrate
to our own public that money is being well stewarded but because
across the world we want to see the growing UK leadership in this
respect being carried on. In the Global Fund’s Aid Transparency
Index, the UK, with its full government department, is the only
country in the world that has retained its top status since the
global transparency index of 2013....Request free trial
Extract from Lords debate
on the Development Aid Budget
(LD):...This is important not only to demonstrate to our
own public that money is being well stewarded but because across
the world we want to see the growing UK leadership in this respect
being carried on. In the Global Fund’s Aid Transparency Index, the
UK, with its full government department, is the only country in the
world that has retained its top status since the global
transparency index of 2013. Other countries have looked to DfID as
the exemplar and have copied our approach. In 2013, there were 26
donor countries in the very poor category of transparency; in 2016,
there were only five. This is welcome. Interestingly, while the UK
scored 88.3% on aid transparency, Italy scored just 16%, France
9.2% and China a derisory 2.2%. Given the extent of
the delivery of trade and concessions for aid from China, Africa and elsewhere, a level of scrutiny
on their programmes is almost impossible to carry out...
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Extract from Lords debate
on Air Quality: London
(LD):...The same
applies to buses. At the moment, electric buses are relatively
heavy and can have a limited range, but there are options available
and the technology is moving very fast. In Britain, electric bus
orders are in the low-single and double digits in most places.
However, in China in the city of Changsha there are
14,000 electric buses either on the streets already or on order.
TfL has a massive network of more than 9,000 buses. Removing all
the diesel buses from London would have a significant impact on air
quality. It is a pity that TfL has been slow in rolling this out,
although it is doing some good work now...
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