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First Special Report - Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report: Lagos calling: Nigeria and the Integrated Review

Published 13 July 2022

Foreign Affairs Committee Implementing the Integrated Review in Nigeria Report on parliament.uk ↗

At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to Seventh Report - Lagos calling: Nigeria and the Integrated Review.

This is the government's response, published 13 July 2022.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government partially agrees with the Committee's recommendation on a Nigeria delivery plan, stating that it does "not agree that we should publish a new integrated delivery plan within the next six months".

  • The Government says an internal cross-government strategy already runs to 2023 and that it "will therefore look to refresh" it after the election, and will run a "light touch process" to develop One-HMG country plans "in due course".
  • On the Benin Bronzes and colonial legacy it agrees with the recommendation, noting that museums operate independently of Government and decisions on collections are taken by each institution's trustees.
  • It does not agree to quotas for the Nigerian civil service in skills programming, and does not agree to ring-fence support to human rights projects or British Council programming.
  • It will continue funding the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub for 2022-23, and "potentially" to March 2025, "subject to final ODA allocations".

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