Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 17 December 2012.
We did not discuss international development at this Council, because it was largely about the eurozone, but we did discuss briefly the effect of European aid, particularly in Syria, where Britain is playing a key role, as is the EU, with its aid budget, which is making sure that we ease the scale of the humanitarian crisis, and that is good and important work.