Oral Answers to Questions

Alistair Carmichael Excerpts

Wednesday 20th March 2019 Commons Chamber

[The Minister of State, Department for International Development (Alistair Burt)]

First, I congratulate Ellington Primary School on its work in joining the Department’s mission to help save the world from landmines, and in joining leading UK non-governmental organisations such as the Mines Advisory Group and the HALO Trust, which do fantastic work in this space. We constantly go to those who are not yet signed up to the Ottawa convention to ask them to do so. I hope my hon. Friend will take even further interest in this, and perhaps do some visiting, as I have done in the past.

[Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland) (LD)]

T4. The Save the Children Fund has identified five things that this Government can do to help end the conflict in Yemen. Will the Government do them?

[Alistair Burt]

Last week, I held a telephone conference call with Lise Grande, the UN co-ordinator on Yemen, and a number of UN agencies. We are looking at everything we can do. This morning, I met humanitarian workers—women workers—from Yemen themselves. We will of course work even more closely with all our partners there and support UNICEF in all its work.