St Lucia: Hurricane Tomas

Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead Excerpts
Thursday 20th January 2011

(13 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Verma Portrait Baroness Verma
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My Lords, my noble friend raises an important point. However, our DfID programmes are concentrated mostly on a regional presence and are there to assist in climate change, disaster and risk management, and to tackle crime and insecurity. I will take back my noble friend’s question. However, we are doing quite a lot of constructive work through multilateral agencies.

Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead Portrait Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
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My Lords, does the Minister agree that we should acknowledge the importance of €200,000 in humanitarian aid that the European Union is contributing, the considerable funding that goes towards disaster preparedness in the Caribbean, and the disaster management programmes there?

Baroness Verma Portrait Baroness Verma
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I absolutely agree with the noble Baroness. She has summarised concisely what we are doing.