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Kevin Brennan Excerpts
Tuesday 26th February 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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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.

Kevin Brennan Portrait Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)
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My constituent Luke Symons has been held for some considerable time as a captive in Sana’a, and his family feel that the Foreign Office is not doing enough. Will the Minister undertake to give priority to this case, so that Luke can get out of Yemen with his family and back to the UK?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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We continue to have contact with Luke’s family. This is a very distressing case. We are not able to offer consular assistance in Yemen. We appreciate that he was in Yemen before the conflict broke out and we will continue to exert every effort we can to try to find a way to get him home.