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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Jobs and Livelihoods

Inquiry by the International Development Committee, 15 July 2014 to 24 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 21 October 2014: Luqman Ahmad, Director of Private Sector Development, Adam Smith International, David Norman, Senior Manager, Sustainable Development Policy, SAB Miller, Jim Tanburn, Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, Diana Noble, CEO, CDC, and Alex MacGillivray, Director of Development Impact, CDC
  • 19 November 2014: Hon Sammy Koech MP, Member of Parliament (Kenya), Dr Leslie Ramsammy MP, Minister of Agriculture (Guyana), and Hon Nawab Yousuf Talpur, Opposition Pakistan People's Party, Professor Wilmot James MP, Member of Parliament (South Africa), Hon Leticia Nyerere, Member of Parliament (Tanzania), and Waresat Hussain Belal MP, Member of Parliament (Bangladesh), Gave evidence
  • 16 December 2014: David Woollcombe, President, Peace Child International, Andrew Devenport, CEO, Youth Business International, and Gerry Boyle, Senior Policy Adviser, Private Sector Engagement, CARE International UK, Farah Kabir, Country Director, ActionAid Bangladesh, Mike Bird, Operations Manager, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Deepta Chopra, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Mosharraf Hossain, Director of Policy and Influencing, ADD International
  • 20 January 2015: Doug Gollin, Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford, Sir Gordon Conway, Professor of International Development, Imperial College London, Dr Keith Palmer OBE, Chairman, AgDevCo, Tim Brosnan, Small Foundation, Ken Bluestone, Political and Policy Adviser, Age International, and Hilary Parsons, Global Senior Public Affairs Manager for Supply Chain, Nestlé, gave evidence
  • 28 January 2015: Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development, Alistair Fernie, Director, International Finance, DFID, and Stefan Dercon, Chief Economist, Research and Evidence, DFID, gave evidence