Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria

David T C Davies Excerpts
Thursday 3rd November 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I cannot, as I say, comment on the elections in another very friendly country. We have to wait and see what happens there, but I do not think that anybody here wants the United Kingdom under any circumstances to abandon its driving role in that question.

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
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Does the Secretary of State agree that we have been absolutely right in this country to provide general financial support for refugee centres throughout the middle east, and that this must continue for humanitarian reasons?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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My hon. Friend is completely right. We have a proud record in this country of contributing to humanitarian relief and to the care of refugees—the single biggest contributor after the United States. As the House will know, £2.3 billion is the total envelope of our commitment to humanitarian relief for the area.