Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Baroness Featherstone and George Howarth

Wednesday 12th December 2012 Commons Chamber

[Lynne Featherstone]

My hon. Friend raises a critical issue, that of ensuring that coherence and integration exist between the sustainable development goals and the post-2015 millennium development goals. I assure him that my Department is doing just that. Across Government, we have a single structure and approach to managing our engagement with both the high-level panel and the SDGs. The Prime Minister’s envoy is a senior DFID official, and is responsible for both those things.

[Mr George Howarth (Knowsley) (Lab)]

Will the Minister tell us what part conflict analysis and sensitivity play in the approach to the sustainable development goals?