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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 19 May 2021
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Udny-Lister (CON - Life peer) We could not foresee then the coronavirus pandemic and what became perhaps the greatest international - Speech Link
2: Lord Sheikh (CON - Life peer) Can humanitarian aid to that country be continued as much as possible? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warsi (CON - Life peer) We know that mid-pandemic, Gaza’s only coronavirus testing lab was damaged by Israeli army bombing. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) children, and the other was Dr Ayman Abu al-Ouf, the Shifa Hospital’s head of internal medicine and coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, reminded us, slashing aid to Yemen—the world’s worst humanitarian crisis—by - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Affordable and Safe Housing for All - Tue 18 May 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The Secretary of State promised that no one would lose their home because of coronavirus. - Speech Link
2: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) crisis, the Secretary of State said, as we heard earlier, that“no renter who has lost income due to coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Naz Shah (LAB - Bradford West) internal repression, external aggression, including de facto annexation, or violations of international humanitarian - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) As a coronavirus recession beckons and climate change threatens, it is more pivotal than ever. - Speech Link
5: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) homes, we can also help to create a strong customer base for our high streets and town centres and so aid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Better Jobs and a Fair Deal at Work - Wed 12 May 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Kyle (LAB - Hove) was so much worse than in all the countries he has mentioned and at the bottom of the G7 during the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) Coronavirus has shone a spotlight on what matters to all of us—our families and friends, our communities - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Aid is part of that solution.Britain’s financial services industry is world leading. - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Wright (CON - Kenilworth and Southam) I was pleased to hear in the Gracious Speech an ongoing commitment to overseas aid, but I noted, too, - Speech Link
5: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) That is against international humanitarian law. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Integrated Review: Development Aid - Wed 28 Apr 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Save the Children says that humanitarian preparedness and response will be cut by 44%, despite 200 NGOs - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) A further cut to 0.5% will wreak humanitarian damage of which our country should be deeply ashamed. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Humanitarian ghastliness in Yemen, Syria or Iraq is apart from strategies for countries in poverty. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) So, when it is in the Government’s choosing, additional humanitarian assistance is provided. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Government Support for India - Wed 28 Apr 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) committed up to £1.3 billion of official development assistance funding to address the health, economic and humanitarian - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) Government finally listen to the experts and retreat from the proposed cut to the UK’s life-saving aid - Speech Link
3: Scott Benton (CON - Blackpool South) Of course, we will still be spending more money on international aid than nearly every other nation on - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) He will know that at a time of humanitarian crisis, the people of this country are incredibly generous - Speech Link
5: Marco Longhi (CON - Dudley North) Does the Minister agree that the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated more than ever before the absolute - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for Asylum Seekers - Tue 27 Apr 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Neil Coyle (IND - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) policies, given the planned cuts to our armed forces and the massive reduction to our international aid - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) the inadequacies of the Home Office’s so-called support system.Almost 200 people tested positive for coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) It appears that the regional contract handling of the coronavirus crisis added to the misery of those - Speech Link
4: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) Whatever the Government are told, the fact remains that the UK is a global leader in overseas aid and - Speech Link
5: Paula Barker (LAB - Liverpool, Wavertree) As a humanitarian, I too, like my constituents, believe that we can and should do more to provide much-needed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
ODA Budget - Mon 26 Apr 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) Do the Government realise that sending 300 troops to Mali while cutting humanitarian aid to the Sahel - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) He mentions the impact of coronavirus. - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) the context of coronavirus, the cuts are also incredibly short-sighted. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Arms Trade: Yemen - Tue 20 Apr 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) Coronavirus cases are hard to track. - Speech Link
2: Feryal Clark (LAB - Enfield North) On top of that, Yemen must face the coronavirus pandemic with a broken healthcare system. - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) Recently, fuel shortages have created difficulties in providing the humanitarian aid on which 80% of - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) The decision to slash humanitarian aid to Yemen is disgraceful. - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That means that steps must be taken to deliver humanitarian aid and stop this arms trade in the interim - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Human Security - Tue 13 Apr 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down) We need to see a greater focus on international aid and humanitarian assistance, as well as on UN peacekeeping.It - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) to further trade.Yemen was described by the UN as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) I remind them that despite the unique and extreme financial pressures imposed on us by coronavirus, the - Speech Link
4: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) budget to help to distribute 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine to 92 developing countries. - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) provided by the integrated review in hand, we are well placed to help the world to build back better from coronavirus - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Government Support for NGOs and Churches in Developing Nations: Covid-19 - Thu 25 Mar 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) acceptable to take money away from starving people and starving children, and from preventing the spread of coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) parcels to 30,000 people in rural Guatemala who face food shortages because of the pandemic.As cases of coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) according to internationally recognised humanitarian principles. - Speech Link