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Vince Cable’s response to our campaign

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

Vince Cable has responded to the Halloween demonstration outside his office by releasing new information on the origin of Egypt’s debt to the UK.

Cable’s department has previously claimed that ‘details of the goods and services supplied under the individual contracts are no longer held’.

The demonstration called for him to reveal the ‘debt skeletons’ in UK Export Finance’s cupboard (previously known as the Export Credits Guarantee Department).

Vince Cable has said he is ‘not minded’ to investigate UK Export Finance’s debts, but our campaigning has forced him to release information the government claimed wasn’t available. Keep the pressure up by updating your MP on the campaign’s developments.

Clean Up Britain’s Exports – January update

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

Keep your MP up to date on the latest developments in our campaign. Send this one-page letter to you r MP (three easy steps) and let us know if your MP gets back to you !   Download the briefing

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Zimbabwe’s £210 million debt to the UK includes loans to Zimbabwe’s police force while they were engaged in internal repression.

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Maddy 0 comments

The Zimbabwean police were loaned money in the 1990s to buy 1,500 Land Rovers, backed by UK Export Finance (then known as the Export Credits Guarantee Department), a unit of the Department for Business. These loans continue to make-up £21 million of Zimbabwe’s debt to the UK. The evidence appears in a new report published [...]

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UK’s ECGD backs $1bn of loans for deep-sea oil drilling as climate talks take place in Durban

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Maddy 0 comments

Vince Cable’s department has broken a key coalition deal on the environment for a second time. UK Export Finance – also known as the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD)  - has announced it is backing up to $1bn of loans to Brazilian oil company Petrobras, which specialises in deep and ultra-deep water drilling [2]. The [...]

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Halloween protest exposes debt skeletons in the Government’s cupboard

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Maddy 0 comments

Debt campaigners from around the UK, and beyond, travelled to Westminster to demand Vince Cable comes clean on dictator debts.  Organised by Jubilee Debt Campaign,  this demonstration coincided with the first conference of the Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt in Cairo, and the publication of new information showing that at least some of Egypt’s [...]

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