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Desmond Swayne Excerpts

Tuesday 26th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for the Middle East (Alistair Burt)]

I was in Bahrain last week, where I met the chair of the independent monitoring committee, who has taken a special interest in some of the cases that have been raised in the UK to make sure that proper human rights are available to those who have been convicted in Bahrain. We still monitor a number of cases, but I urge people to go through that independent process because we are confident that it is genuinely independent and it is making a difference to the administration of justice in Bahrain.

[Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)]

T6. What difficulties face the fair and effective delivery of the £200 million that the Prime Minister has pledged to Yemen?

[Mr Hunt]

We think that that £200 million will mean that 3.7 million people get access to food they would not have otherwise had and 2 million get access to sanitation and fresh water. This will make a significant difference, but the most important thing of all would be to stop the fighting in Hodeidah to allow the Red sea mills to be opened up and food to be transported to the capital, Sana’a.