Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: MP Economic Secretary to the Treasury, HM Treasury The Lord AHMAD of Wimbledon Minister of State (Middle
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) On behalf of the UK, he pledged £89 million, a near-doubling of UK overseas development aid for Sudan - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) We heard of 5 million people on the brink of famine, of aid convoys being held at gunpoint, of aid being - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) We regularly talk about what is going on in Ukraine and the middle east, but we do not focus on the continent - Speech Link
Found: Labour MPs were given a free vote on the issue. 2 Military action in support of the wider Middle East
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: Situation in the Middle East 1.
Found: China opened its first overseas military base in Djibouti in 2017 and has invested 2 US State Department
Found: (EFO) sets out the potential economic implications of an adverse scenario for the conflict in the Middle
Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Amendment 26, is the implication for charitable organisations delivering public functions in terms of overseas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Therefore, the ban would not restrict how such bodies decide, for example, to distribute humanitarian aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) As an example, if a young people’s badminton team were to be taking a tour of south-east Asia and felt - Speech Link
4: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) The Institute for Middle East Understanding has set out a long list of allegations of environmental misconduct - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) is why it is sitting on so much of the food supply; that is why there are lorries waiting to deliver aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) having two leaders of moral stature who were prepared to talk to each other, which we do not have in the Middle - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and that those powers enable fair and equal treatment of overseas - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The Government agree and say that this is a terrible problem, that it is confusing for our partners overseas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) really indicates the ripple effect of what the Government are doing: other countries are praying in aid - Speech Link
2: William Cash (Con - Stone) law—I have never taken a different view—but in his speech Lord Coaker compared what is going on in the middle - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) included on the face of the Bill and our obligations to those who have helped us and our armed forces overseas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) I hope the Labour Benches are focusing on this.In a more serious vein, the Middle East situation is extremely - Speech Link
2: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) Will the Minister confirm that it was three British-supplied drones that killed three British aid workers - Speech Link
3: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the last time that tensions rose in the Middle East, which sadly ended up with fighting going - Speech Link