Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Desmond Swayne and Michael Fabricant

Wednesday 16th December 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Swayne]

We are currently spending some €600,000 on a project to assist with desalination. Funds are available through our climate change fund for a long-term solution to this problem, but the level of investment and the marshalling of the factors of production will require a long-term peace process to be viable.

[Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)]

The hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) speaks about the blockade, but surely if they did not embrace Hamas and continually fire rockets into Israel, there would not need to be a blockade in the first place.

[Mr Swayne]

We work continually with both sides to ease the economic conditions and to bring about a settlement.