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date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what criteria were used to select India, the Philippines, South Africa and Nigeria as the main target countries for his Department's Investment Promotion Programme.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	277827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade developed an economic model to score and rank all aid eligible countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee list) on a range of economic, social and structural indicators from the World Bank, World Economic Forum and UN Council on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and other internationally-recognised sources. The selected countries scored highly on the need for economic development, investment opportunity and are priority countries for Official Development Assistance (ODA).</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 22/07/2019 15:28:23 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

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date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans the UK's International Ambassador for Human Rights has to (a) promote to partner countries and (b) publicly reinforce the findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education on the provision of public education and regulation of private involvement in education presented to the UN Human Rights Council in July 2019.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	277831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Every child has a right to a good quality education. DFID’s education policy <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdfid-education-policy-2018-get-children-learning&amp;data=02%7C01%7CM-Clancy%40dfid.gsx.gov.uk%7C89db3219247343412f4e08d70b78b187%7Ccdf709af1a184c74bd936d14a64d73b3%7C0%7C0%7C636990485307131931&amp;sdata=U3JKXuko4TOTu2YqLzZpglLhSztYMkxATm6MaNVZfxs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Get Children Learning</a> makes clear that the state is the guarantor of quality basic education for all, but need not be the sole financer or provider of education services. This is the position we will continue to a) promote to partner countries and b) reinforce publicly. We welcome the focus in the UN Special Rapporteur’s Report on the importance of regulation in education systems.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/07/2019 16:08:37 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden