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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) East Africa currently represents the world’s largest and most severe humanitarian crisis. - Speech Link
2: Nick Smith (LAB - Blaenau Gwent) Drought and famine have displaced nearly 2 million people in Ethiopia and Somalia recently. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) However, he is right to talk about the intense humanitarian needs that exist in the area that he has - Speech Link
4: Matt Vickers (CON - Stockton South) I was glad to see the Government’s fast response in sending humanitarian aid, but can my right hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) K is also for Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, where the rains have just failed for the fifth season and - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) In Turkey and Syria, humanitarian groups have warned that women are finding it harder to access aid, - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Members have reflected on the situation of women across the world whose rights are imperilled. - Speech Link
4: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Let us compare our situation in safety here to the situation that those women remain in right now, in - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Overseas Aid: Child Health and Education - Wed 22 Feb 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) protracted nature of the conflict, the significant threat of exposure to violence and the many other humanitarian - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) In Lebanon, aid has been cut from £85 million to £13 million; in Ethiopia, a country dear to my heart—my - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) That is not a situation that we can tolerate. As hon. - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) of covid-19, conflict, the climate crisis and poverty means that more children around the world need humanitarian - Speech Link
5: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) reductions of the ODA budget, we will ensure that we focus on the poorest and most vulnerable, the humanitarian - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Horn of Africa: Famine - Tue 07 Feb 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) In Somalia, the situation remains particularly critical, with 5.6 million people currently acutely food - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) We have debated the Eritrean and Ethiopian situation, but what is the Government’s current view of the - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) However, our focus tonight is also on the urgent humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) The situation is at risk of getting, and is likely to get, worse. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day of Education - Thu 26 Jan 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) specifically targeted through ECW’s investments, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia - Speech Link
2: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) out about it whenever we can, because it is only by keeping that focus that we can ever hope for the situation - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The international community must continue to work to change that.I want to focus on the situation in - Speech Link
4: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) UK funding to Afghanistan while negotiations between the de facto authorities and the diplomatic and humanitarian - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Asylum and Refugee Policy - Fri 09 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) We are left with this question: in the context of the current and anticipated international situation - Speech Link
2: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (CON - Life peer) Humanitarian needs will only increase. - Speech Link
3: Lord Green of Deddington (CB - Life peer) The present situation in the channel is extremely damaging, to the reputation of the Government, to the - Speech Link
4: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) Why not have a humanitarian visa? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) sporadic conflicts in nations where British citizens have heritage, such as the recent conflict in Ethiopia - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Day - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) The UN has deemed it one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) A recent Westminster Hall debate focused on Ethiopia, particularly the situation in Tigray. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ethiopia: Peace Process - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) until unrestricted humanitarian aid enters Tigray and civilian detainees are released. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sugg (CON - Life peer) My Lords, further to my noble friend’s comments on the dire humanitarian situation, I say that we believe - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) , and to 226,000 people in drought-affected communities in southern Ethiopia. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) We are working with various other international agencies: UNICEF, the WFP, the Ethiopia Humanitarian - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - Thu 01 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (CON - Totnes) To date, less than 1% of humanitarian relief is spent in that area. - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) We need an increase in humanitarian relief funding for action on sexual and gender-based violence. - Speech Link
3: James Daly (CON - Bury North) We have got to a situation where a report has been required and the situation is worse than when it started - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine: Tactical Nuclear Weapons - Thu 01 Dec 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) To date, the approach has been rather opaque.We must also consider humanitarian support. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) We have also committed £220 million of humanitarian support since February, making us the third-largest - Speech Link