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Westminster Hall
Violence against Christians: Central African Countries - Thu 23 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) violence against women and children, and if domestic abuse has risen in this country throughout the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) in tackling these issues, but they are cutting that aid. - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) We will spend more than £10 billion in aid”in 2020. - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) includes local stabilisation projects in Mali, strengthening civilian-military co-ordination to facilitate humanitarian - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) there would be a fairer future—something that should be borne in mind given the challenges we face with coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) When asked, every food aid provider will explain how nervous they are if the cut goes ahead and what - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) These are the same people who have been at the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic: social care workers - Speech Link
4: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) All those places have declared themselves Right to Food towns and cities in response to the humanitarian - Speech Link
5: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) This cut does nothing to aid any levelling-up process in my constituency. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Vaccinations and Global Public Health - Thu 09 Sep 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) We then imposed travel restrictions against them, and then, not content with that, we slashed the aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Osamor (LAB - Life peer) Coronavirus has taught us that the future is never going to be business as usual and that the virus knows - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) Baroness, a Minister of ability and admirable integrity, quit after Rishi Sunak announced that foreign aid - Speech Link
4: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) them a lot of money to go through this tortuous experience.I beg the Government to look at this from a humanitarian - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) The FCDO is also working with UNICEF and other humanitarian partners to ensure that planning and finance - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sub-Saharan Africa (Report from the International Relations and Defence Committee) - Wed 08 Sep 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Helic (CON - Life peer) There is a de facto humanitarian blockade: less than 10% of humanitarian aid has got through since July - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) Africa may mean less separation politically and in economic terms today than in the past.Secondly, humanitarian - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) If you want it in figures: before the coronavirus hit, sub-Saharan Africa had been growing at between - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) We have used our G7 presidency to amplify our calls for unfettered humanitarian access, a dialogue to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
2nd reading (day 2) - Tue 20 Jul 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (CON - Redcar) We should be proud of our record on overseas aid contributions and to have resettled more refugees than - Speech Link
2: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) From the cuts to aid budgets to this two-tiered refugee system, this Tory Government are pushing their - Speech Link
3: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down) We need a system based on humanitarian values and objective consideration of cases. - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) treat them decently.In essence, my constituents are calling for the UK to play its part in providing humanitarian - Speech Link
5: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) conditions in Napier and Penally barracks, depriving them of sleep and dignity and exposing them to coronavirus - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
2nd reading (day 1) - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) Obviously making a precise numerical commitment is difficult, given the coronavirus circumstances, but - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Everybody understands the pressures of the coronavirus crisis, but what we need is a commitment to the - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) Millions more live in conditions all over the world that would qualify them for humanitarian relief, - Speech Link
4: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) It plays a key role in enabling us to honour our international, legal and humanitarian responsibilities - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 14 Jul 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alok Sharma (CON - Reading West) Gentleman will know that we will continue to spend over £10 billion this year in aid, and of course we - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) out, the UK remains one of the largest donors in supporting a number of areas, including, obviously, humanitarian - Speech Link
3: Alok Sharma (CON - Reading West) To come back to his point about aid spending, I just point out that this year we will spend more on aid - Speech Link
4: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) Gentleman seems to want us to relax our rules on self-isolation that are protecting people from coronavirus - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Aid: Treasury Update
Programme motion - Tue 13 Jul 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) In Yemen, where there is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, UK aid has been cut by nearly - Speech Link
2: Sam Tarry (LAB - Ilford South) In April this year, when the delta variant was ravaging India, vital coronavirus research centres—including - Speech Link
3: Ruth Edwards (CON - Rushcliffe) We will still be the third-largest bilateral humanitarian donor in the world. - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) We have seen what happened in Africa with AIDS; the consequences for Africa from coronavirus are horrendous - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Delays in the Asylum System - Wed 07 Jul 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) as well as those—including the Refugee Council, Detention Action, the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) The VPRS 20,000 commitment was met in February of this year, a few months than expected because of coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) It is not humanitarian to have people smugglers paid to smuggle people across the channel. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Foreign Aid Programme - Thu 01 Jul 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Fowler (CB - Life peer) Even funding for Yemen, which has the world’s worst humanitarian emergency, has been cut back, and we - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) It is not that humanitarian or other needs across the globe have diminished. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Masham of Ilton (CB - Life peer) Now the world is facing the coronavirus, and nobody is safe until everyone is safe.My noble friend Lord - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) humanitarian challenge of our lifetime, the response has been cut. - Speech Link
5: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) In much of the world, humanitarian crises are leaving millions of people on the brink of famine. - Speech Link