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Commons Chamber
Official Development Assistance and the British Council - Wed 30 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) Essential humanitarian aid programmes, including to Yemen, will be cut by 60%. - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) Cutting programmes including humanitarian aid, global health, girls’ education, water and sanitation, - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) Does he agree that vast amounts of our humanitarian support and development aid do go to Commonwealth - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) the Thatcherite point—and this is not the humanitarian point, because many people have made the humanitarian - Speech Link
5: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) since the pandemic revealed that 19 million more people are now in need of humanitarian aid and the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Palestinian School Textbooks: EU Review - Wed 30 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) examples.The Minister is very experienced and knowledgeable and is deeply committed, as I hope we all are, to humanitarian - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) inappropriate” material, saying that it was “mistakenly” distributed to students at the beginning of the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Chris Green (CON - Bolton West) Aid ought to bring influence. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Ansell (CON - Eastbourne) They are more far-reaching than a mere teaching aid or prop. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Official Development Assistance - Thu 24 Jun 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sugg (CON - Life peer) Some 700,000 fewer girls will be supported by education, 2 million fewer supported by humanitarian assistance - Speech Link
2: Lord Sarfraz (CON - Life peer) Lords, last week our permanent envoy to the UN said that the situation in Myanmar is fast becoming a humanitarian - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) is cut by 60%, humanitarian relief to Ethiopia is cut by 95%, and child nutrition projects are cut by - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) current position as top bilateral donor.On global health, we will donate at least 100 million surplus coronavirus - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Covid-19: Religious and Ethnic Minority Communities - Tue 22 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) are at greater risk both of becoming infected with coronavirus and of dying from it if they become infected - Speech Link
2: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) The effects of this virus on humanitarian work are horrific, but we are committed to do what we can as - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Vaccine Production - Thu 17 Jun 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) My Lords, the UK is proud to be playing a global leading role in the development and distribution of coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Combined with our aid, that is helping to distribute 1.8 billion doses across the world. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As there is a humanitarian justification in their allowing the world to so benefit, would there be any - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) We will donate 100 million surplus coronavirus vaccine doses within the next year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
G7 and NATO Summits - Wed 16 Jun 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) The UK is the only G7 country cutting overseas aid and the only G7 country being questioned about its - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) that many of us, in all parts of the parliamentary party, are urging him to reverse these terrible humanitarian - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) With coronavirus, none of us are safe until everyone is safe. - Speech Link
4: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Prime Minister give a simple commitment to the principle that no one can claim to have defeated the coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) The Prime Minister said that no countries have raised concerns about the aid cuts. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Aviation, Travel and Tourism Industries - Thu 10 Jun 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) This leaves businesses such as my local tour operator unable to plan in advance on the basis of coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) We had a lively debate in this place on Monday about whether we could afford an extra aid budget. - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) Minister, in the time I have left I want to urge you to extend the coronavirus job retention scheme to - Speech Link
4: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) deals and develop the interpersonal relationships that drive international trade; they also include humanitarian - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
0.7% Official Development Assistance Target - Tue 08 Jun 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) Aid to Yemen, the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, has been cut by 60%. - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) It is a very different kind of parasite from coronavirus—of course, coronavirus is much simpler, so it - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) Whether it is securing girls’ education or responding to humanitarian crises in conflict zones, aid can - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) the world’s worst humanitarian crisis; a cut of 40% in aid going to education, resulting in 700,000 - Speech Link
5: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) As we have heard, we are talking about a humanitarian aid cut of 70%. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill
Report stage - Mon 07 Jun 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Members across this House who are horrified by the harm done—harm such as, in the world’s worst humanitarian - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Just to say that the funding for coronavirus research, which is the kind of world-beating or leading - Speech Link
3: Angela Richardson (CON - Guildford) May I ask her to think about the fact that we were prepared for a flu pandemic but not a coronavirus - Speech Link
4: None We have sought to respond to the ravages of coronavirus and to rebuild and move forward. - Speech Link
5: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) We should not be slashing overseas aid to the world’s poorest people. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Gaza: Ceasefire - Wed 19 May 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) Humanitarian access is essential, and we urge all parties to allow the unimpeded entry of vital humanitarian - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) doctors who have seen their facilities bombed or who do not have any vaccines to be able to deal with coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) Yesterday, Israel facilitated dozens of trucks filled with humanitarian aid, including field hospitals - Speech Link