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The UK regularly raises the issue of prisoner payments with the Palestinian Authority
(PA). The Minister of State for International Development, my right hon. Friend the
Member for New Forest West (Mr Swayne) raised the matter with PA Finance Minister
Bishara during his visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories in August 2014. No
UK money is used for payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, or their
families. The UK’s direct financial assistance to the PA is used to pay the salaries
of public sector workers only.
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