11:30 Mr. David Lidington (Aylesbury) (Con)

We know from the permanent secretary’s evidence that, as a consequence of this, the FCO has now “stopped most training” and put some staff on involuntary unpaid leave or four-day weeks. We know from what Baroness Kinnock said yesterday that there have been reductions in conflict prevention work in Africa and in climate change programmes—again those to which Ministers have said publicly that they attach great importance. Is it not time for the Government to come clean about what they are doing and to make public a full list of the cuts they are imposing as a result of the debacle of their exchange rate policy?

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