Bangladesh
International Development
Lisa Nandy (Wigan, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether his Department has made representations to the Bangladeshi authorities on Bangladesh's new national coal policy.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
I enquired about the progress of the national coal policy when I visited Bangladesh last year. There was no discussion of the Phulbari mine and the Department has not entered into any further discussions on the matter. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, recently said that there would be no new mining under the current Government.
