Oral Answers to Questions

David Nuttall Excerpts

Wednesday 14th September 2016 Commons Chamber

[Priti Patel]

Again, I only just heard the question, but I think it was based on the need for positive dialogue with colleagues in the Scottish National party. If it was, absolutely: that is exactly what I shall be doing.

[Mr David Nuttall (Bury North) (Con)]

T4. What assessment has my right hon. Friend’s Department made of the humanitarian situation in Venezuela?

[Priti Patel]

Of course, international assessments of Venezuela note that it is suffering a deep economic crisis and not just with inflation, but also because there is a health emergency there—a shortage of medicines and a humanitarian crisis. Strangely enough, Venezuela’s economic and political policy models have of course been championed by the Labour party, and we can now see what those policies have led to, with the economic catastrophe in Venezuela.