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'Significant visa reform is essential' to increase economic and cultural links with India

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09 Nov 2015 Foreign affairs

'Significant visa reform is essential' to increase economic and cultural links with India

Lord Lee (Co-Chairman of the Tourism APPG & Chairman of ALVA) and Virgin Atlantic Airways CEO Craig Kreeger ask the Government to extend visa changes offered to Chinese tourists, to Indian visitors in the week of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official UK visit.

27 Oct 2015 Health

Crucial to keep funding research into malaria and tropical diseases

Conservative MP Jeremy Lefroy writes ahead of his Westminster Hall debate on: 'Work of the UK in tackling malaria and neglected tropical diseases'.

19 Oct 2015 Foreign affairs

UK must be China's critical friend on human rights

Congleton MP and Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission Fiona Bruce calls on the Government to address China's human rights violations ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the UK this week.

We are winning the argument on aid spending, George Osborne says

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09 Oct 2015 Education

We are winning the argument on aid spending, George Osborne says

The Syrian refugee crisis has bolstered public opinion on the importance of the 0.7% GDP target for international aid spending, George Osborne has said.

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08 Oct 2015 Economy

Solving the UK’s productivity puzzle

The Chartered Management Institute hosted a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference which discussed how employers and higher education can work together to boost the UK’s productivity.

Senior Labour MPs support call to accept more child refugees

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30 Sep 2015 Education

Senior Labour MPs support call to accept more child refugees

Tristram Hunt MP and Dan Jarvis MP called for support of Save the Children’s campaigns to help refugee children and child literacy in the UK.

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08 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

Mott MacDonald appointed on waste management system improvement project, Brazil

Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide technical and strategic advice on a public-private partnership (PPP) project to improve the waste management system in Curitiba, Brazil.

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26 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

Construction underway on Indigo hotel, China

Construction is underway on a new Indigo hotel in Yangzhou, China. Mott MacDonald is acting as mechanical, electrical and plumbing consultant on the project on behalf of Yangzhou Wansheng Industry Co., Ltd.

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20 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

Port of Calais PPP achieves financial close, France

The 863 million Port of Calais extension public-private partnership (PPP) project has successfully reached financial close.

12 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

UK must speak up against sharp rise of executions in Iran

Co-chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom Lord Carlile of Berriew calls on the Government to condemn the human rights situation in Iran with nearly 700 executions since January 2015.

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03 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

Save the Children welcomes draft global goals as 'seismic shift' for combatting poverty

Save the Children has today strongly welcomed the agreement by member states of Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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24 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Road Haulage Association calls for French military to secure Calais

The Road Haulage Association welcomes proposals to improve Operation Stack, which were set out at a resilience meeting in Kent today. But the plans will not cope adequately when the demands on Stack reach their peak, as has been repeatedly seen in the past month, the RHA warned.

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24 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Using digital systems to improve food security. Alan Whitelaw

If digital infrastructure is about delivering better outcomes, then nowhere is this more important than in support of agriculture and the food industry.

Parliament stinks: a call to improve sanitation worldwide

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22 Jul 2015 Health

Parliament stinks: a call to improve sanitation worldwide

WaterAid recreates Victorian London in front of Parliament, urging MPs to increase investment in water and sanitation - 'the foundation to climbing out of poverty'.

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21 Jul 2015 Environment

British energy firms turning the tides with Canada

Five British companies are celebrating today after they have received grant funding from the Governments innovation experts at Innovate UK to develop tidal energy projects with Canadian businesses and universities.

Ending poverty in a generation 'requires decisive action'

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20 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Ending poverty in a generation 'requires decisive action'

With campaigns like action/2015 gaining support from the likes of One Direction and Hillary Clinton, Save the Children’s Brendan Cox says the message ‘to world leaders is clear’: you have the power to end extreme poverty and we are all behind you.

The struggle for gender equality in Kenyan politics

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16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

The struggle for gender equality in Kenyan politics

Lord Steel, Baroness Armstrong, Pauline Latham MP and Gavin Shuker MP describe the challenges being faced in Kenya to secure a representative parliament

16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

We must improve our application of the Responsibility to Protect

Labour peer, Lord McConnell examines the UK's application of the Responsibility to Protect,noting that while interventions have saved lives, those interventions have seen mixed outcomes in the years that follow.

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08 Jul 2015 Health

New Supporter Promise launched as impact reaches record high

Save the Children has today unveiled new safeguards to ensure its supporters have greater control over how they give to the charity and are not aggressively targeted

02 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Mark Williams MP: Education for the most vulnerable children will boost Sustainable Development Goals

Welsh Lib Dem MP and Co-Chair of the All Party Group on Global Education Mark Williams writes about his Westminster Hall debate today on 'Education and the sustainable development goals'.

Eastern Promise: Business experts discuss the UK’s growing trade relationship with India

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30 Jun 2015 Economy

Eastern Promise: Business experts discuss the UK’s growing trade relationship with India

Leading business experts gathered in Westminster last week to discuss the potential trade opportunities between the UK and India.

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25 Jun 2015 Foreign affairs

Age discrimination risks being written into UN Sustainable Development Goals

As governments meet in New York this week to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (successor to the Millennium Development Goals), Age International, Age UK and other ageing experts warn that unless there is a change in language, age discrimination will unwittingly be written into the global targets for the next 15 years.

Brits abroad: Opportunities for UK businesses in India

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22 Jun 2015 Economy

Brits abroad: Opportunities for UK businesses in India

Ahead of their panel discussion on UK trade with India on Wednesday, Santander’s Head of International, John Carroll, discusses the opportunities for British business in the world’s largest democracy.

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15 Jun 2015 Economy

Mott MacDonald appointed on Forum 66 mixed-use development, China

Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Hang Lung Properties1 to provide faade consultancy services on Phase 3A of the Forum 66 mixed-use development in Shenyang, China.