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Dan Jarvis Excerpts
Tuesday 8th November 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dan Jarvis Portrait Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab)
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T2. Does the Minister agree that given everything we put into Afghanistan over the past 20 years or so, we have a particular responsibility not to look away, not least given that 6 million Afghans are living on the brink of famine?

Leo Docherty Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Leo Docherty)
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The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, which is why this year alone we are committing £286 million of humanitarian aid that is being disbursed through international organisations. That is all the more needed because of the deprivations of the Taliban regime.