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

Mentions:
1: Darren Jones (LAB - Bristol North West) pay to decarbonise, following the Government’s affirmation yesterday of their cut to UK international aid - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) assistance and humanitarian rights. - Speech Link
4: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) Yesterday, shamefully, the Prime Minister decided to press ahead with the cut in our aid spending. - Speech Link
5: 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


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: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) public services or on international aid. - Speech Link
3: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) Let us reinstate our aid budget now. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) This is not just about how much aid we give overseas. - Speech Link
5: Christian Matheson (LAB - City of Chester) That is how committed they were to international aid. - 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: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) Instead, they should address delays in the asylum system, improve the provision of support and legal aid - 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) in girls’ education but that aid has been cut while aid to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund - Speech Link
2: Lord McDonald of Salford (CB - Life peer) cut in aid spending to 0.5% of GNI. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Helic (CON - Life peer) It will undermine trust in aid providers on the ground and in the British Government.Even if the aid - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) We are not just cutting aid but undermining trust. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) Since 2018-19 we have given over £1 billion in aid to Ethiopia. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Caroline Ansell (CON - Eastbourne) Norway has already cut its funding and the Biden Administration are now making aid conditional on the - Speech Link
2: Mary Robinson (CON - Cheadle) The United States has said that it will do this for its aid to UNRWA—it will delink—and the European - 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


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: 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


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell of Pittenweem (LDEM - Life peer) from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has said that it is difficult to justify the size of the aid - Speech Link
2: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) Most of the largest donors increased their aid budget as we were cutting the UK’s. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) crisis, will see a cut of nearly 60% in UK aid. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Greengross (CB - Life peer) Development aid is not purely an act of charity. - Speech Link
5: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Since 2002, the UK has supported the country with £3.3 billion worth of aid in various forms. - 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) Rather than ensuring that UK aid is delivered in a manner blind to religion, Her Majesty’s Government - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) That is why we cannot just let go the point about 0.7% and the Government’s commitment to aid. - 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) 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) G7 last weekend has sadly been dented by the fact that Britain is the only G7 country cutting vital aid - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) With coronavirus, none of us are safe until everyone is safe. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) The Prime Minister said that no countries have raised concerns about the aid cuts. - Speech Link