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Smoke-free Private Vehicles Bill [HL]
Wednesday 25th January 2012

(12 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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I am very happy to commend the BBC and its journalists for their brave coverage in these very unstable areas. DfID supports the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, a pilot programme from the World Bank on climate resilience, which is extremely important here, and a global facility for disaster risk reduction. It is also important to emphasise DfID’s support for social protection programmes, and for cash transfers where appropriate, to try to build up these vulnerable communities so that they will be more resilient in circumstances such as this.

Lord Skelmersdale Portrait Lord Skelmersdale
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My Lords, that is all very well, but will the noble Baroness tell me what is being done to extract and preserve water, on which all agriculture and horticulture depend?

Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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I will have to write to the noble Lord on that area.

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