Rejected petition The cessation of all Government financed overseas cash aid, as currently dealt with by the Department for International Development

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This petition calls upon the Government to cease immediately paying cash to any country by way of aid and for the procedures of the Department for International Development to be re-defined. in that the only assistance it will give to other countries shall be to finance UK based and owned companies to carry out projects such as the building of new schools, hospitals, places of education, roads, airports and ports and similar developments that will benefit the general population of the country.

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Date submitted 4 August 2011
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