Speaking in a debate on the Foreign Affairs Committee report on global Britain and threats to the international rules-based order, James Cleverly highlights links between trade, aid and global security.

James Cleverly (Braintree) (Con)

I co-chair the all-party parliamentary group on trade out of poverty. Does my hon. Friend agree that trade, aid and global security are three legs of the same stool and that success in those three can be mutually reinforcing?

Mr Seely

My hon. Friend makes a good point. My answer is that they can be, but not necessarily; it is dependent on how the money is spent. I will come to that a bit later. They are not separate—that is certainly true—but it is how we deal with them as a whole that is the issue.

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