Andrew Mitchell: Value for money and a rigorous focus on results for British aid

The response of the British people to the awful tragedy in Pakistan has underlined, once again, a simple truth: that generosity and compassion are at the heart of what it means to be British. 

The public have donated over £60m to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal.  

And British aid is ...

Andrew Mitchell: Haiti response must be swift and well co-ordinated

Speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell said:

“Throughout the whole country, there will be great concern for the people of Haiti at this awful time. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and is least well equipped ...

Andrew Mitchell: Ending Labour's support for polluting energy projects

I'd like to thank the Overseas Development Institute for their kind invitation to speak here today. In recent years the world has become less stable and more dangerous.

Over the past few years, the world has woken up to the imminent threat of climate change and the need to ...

Andrew Mitchell: Achieving value for money in aid

Enterprise, accountability, transparency.

These are the principles that govern our Conservative approach to international development.

An approach set out in our policy papers, but which has been shaped by practical experience on the ground where this summer, for the third year, 100 Conservative doctors, lawyers, business people and teachers of ...

Andrew Mitchell: Conservatives promise transparency in aid spending

Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, Shadow International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell said:

"Well as you've seen and heard today we had an extraordinary time in Rwanda.

No-one presumed that we could lift Rwanda from poverty in two weeks.

We made a very modest contribution in a country which ...

Mitchell: Plight of African street children is symptomatic of a wide problem

Speech to the Street Child Africa Schools Conference at the City of London Girls School:

Thank you, Hilary, for sharing your views with us.

Support for the British contribution to international development is not a Labour or Conservative policy, but a British commitment.

So I am proud to say that ...

Mitchell: Global poverty a new direction

In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Shadow International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell said:

"I think David Cameron has given me the most exciting job in the Shadow Cabinet and one of the most worthwhile.

A billion people- a sixth of the world's population - exist each day on ...

Mitchell: A Pan-African trading area

Speech to the Foreign Press Association

"Over the last 50 years, the world has been getting freer, fairer, more open, and richer.

Global inequality has declined.

India and China have lifted millions of people out of poverty.

Once desperately poor countries in South East Asia are now economic world leaders ...

Mitchell: No more compromises with blood-thirsty tyrants

Speech to Conservative Party Conference 2005

"The people in that film are not asking for a hand out.

Magnan Fane and his family don't want our charity or sympathy.

They're not asking for something for nothing.

All they want is the chance to be able to sell their ...