Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) I have been inspired by those women’s dignity, their resilience in the face of great financial hardship - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) The financial burden has been outlined, but the anxiety they feel is also huge. - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) That injustice demands financial redress. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That was done to her without so much as a by your leave or a financial plan. - Speech Link
5: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Financial advisers and lawyers did not even know: as my hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None announced £500 million of additional funding, which takes us to £3 billion of military aid to Ukraine this financial - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) This is an important time for the young people of Georgia, who have shown their resilience against this - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarwar, Anas (Lab - Glasgow) an accident and emergency department since the start of this year.Now, because of the Government’s financial - Speech Link
2: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) pressures on local government—he would have been right to do so, because there are financial pressures - Speech Link
3: Sarwar, Anas (Lab - Glasgow) His financial mismanagement and the £1.4 billion black hole that it has created will impact on the delivery - Speech Link
4: MacGregor, Fulton (SNP - Coatbridge and Chryston) Will the First Minister say what other steps the Government is taking to support mental wellbeing and resilience - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We continue to support the Centre for Information Resilience, which documents, preserves and shares evidence - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) high levels of acute food insecurity, so we provided £42.6 million in humanitarian funding in the past financial - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) parliamentary group for Africa, which I chair, convened a high-level summit to look at the issues of resilience - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) important things”.The 58% of Brits who follow at least one sport know how true this is.Sport teaches resilience - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) This means that for every £1 invested in sport in Wales, financial and non-financial, £2.88 billion-worth - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 25 April (HL Deb cols 642GC–644GC), whether they plan to provide official development assistance to the government of Pakistan for the purposes of seizing assets of owners of brick kilns illegally using bonded labour so that those assets can be reused for the education and welfare of families trapped in bonded labour.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK is committed to eradicating all forms of modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking anywhere in the world. In Pakistan, our Aawaz II Accountability, Inclusion and Reducing Modern Slavery Programme and Asia Regional Child Labour Programme are working with partners, including the Government of Pakistan, to reduce child and bonded labour. Meanwhile, our Girls and Out of School Action for Learning programme is improving education outcomes for marginalised children from the most vulnerable sections of society. The UK is aiming to triple Official Development Assistance to Pakistan this financial year. We will continue to use our funding to support Pakistan's long-term development, focusing on improving human capital (health, education, gender equality), governance and human rights, macroeconomic stability and trade, and climate resilience.
Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 25 April (HL Deb cols 640GC–644GC), whether any development funding for Pakistan will be allocated to providing advice and assistance to the government of that country to create a national trust fund to support the education of children from the families of bonded labour.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK is committed to eradicating all forms of modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking anywhere in the world. In Pakistan, our Aawaz II Accountability, Inclusion and Reducing Modern Slavery Programme and Asia Regional Child Labour Programme are working with partners, including the Government of Pakistan, to reduce child and bonded labour. Meanwhile, our Girls and Out of School Action for Learning programme is improving education outcomes for marginalised children from the most vulnerable sections of society. The UK is aiming to triple Official Development Assistance to Pakistan this financial year. We will continue to use our funding to support Pakistan's long-term development, focusing on improving human capital (health, education, gender equality), governance and human rights, macroeconomic stability and trade, and climate resilience.
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: Climate change and securityFound: Sun et al (2022) illustrate how greater resilience to market shocks from the conflict between Russia
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: Climate change and securityFound: Impacts on the movement of money: Financial flows are critical for investment and trade.
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: Climate change and securityFound: cyclone shelters and implementation of early warning systems has radically improved communities’ resilience