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Laurence Robertson Excerpts

Wednesday 23rd May 2018 Commons Chamber

[Alistair Burt]

One of the main areas of focus at last week’s United Nations Security Council meeting was to accept special envoy Nikolay Mladenov’s persuasion that Gaza does indeed need more direct assistance and support to ease the circumstances there. Israel will be involved, as will other international donors, working in a very complex situation. The relief of humanitarian issues in Gaza is essential.

[Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury) (Con)]

T6. Will the Minister update the House on the food security situation in east Africa and let us know what help the Government are able to provide?

[The Minister of State, Department for International Development (Harriett Baldwin)]

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his work as chair of the all-party group on Ethiopia and Djibouti and I assure him that the UK has provided assistance to more than 13.6 million people in east Africa and allocated £279 million in humanitarian aid to those countries this year.