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Henry Smith
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(10 years, 2 months ago)
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Justine Greening
The hon. Gentleman is right to raise that issue. One of the challenges has been that many of the people displaced within Gaza went to schools that were empty because of the school holidays. I recently spoke to the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency about how we can ensure we create the homes and the refuges for people to leave the schools so that the children can get back to school. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right; we need to make sure that they do not lose their education.
Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
T6. What are the British Government’s plans for development goals as part of the UN General Assembly later this month?
Justine Greening
We will be pushing our vision for a compelling new set of development goals in relation to post-2015, and in our August presidency of the UN Security Council, we have been focusing on conflict prevention.