Condition for exercise of power to increase limit: analysis of use of separate financial centres

Part of Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill – in the House of Commons at 2:45 pm on 10 January 2017.

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Photo of Stephen Doughty Stephen Doughty Labour/Co-operative, Cardiff South and Penarth 2:45, 10 January 2017

I am listening with interest to the hon. Lady’s point, but does she not accept that there is a bit of a double standard? The Secretary of State issued a letter on 16 December to other DFID suppliers—institutions, non-governmental organisations and people in receipt of our aid money—making it very clear that they should not invest in tax havens, yet she seems unwilling to apply the same to the CDC, which is also in receipt in taxpayers’ funding. Is that not a double standard?