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Lords Chamber
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) It would re-energise commitments to international humanitarian law and rehabilitate Britain’s battered - Speech Link
2: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) I have spoken about the situation of the Uighurs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) few minutes I will focus on three particular cases that underline why a Bill of this kind is needed: Tigray - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) We are clear about the need to avoid a Rafah offensive, and instead to secure an immediate humanitarian - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) The situation in Gaza is truly appalling, but the situation in the west bank is also a cause for huge - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I was recently in Ethiopia, and was able to visit Tigray and the edge of the most food-insecure area, - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Friend that I was recently in TCI and I understand the situation there. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The humanitarian situation is catastrophic, and tensions are escalating globally, as well as in our own - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Where were the blue helmets as 600,000 were killed in Tigray while the world looked away? - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) It is a dreadful, possibly intractable situation. - Speech Link


Select Committee
Second Report - Humanitarian situation in Gaza

Report Mar. 01 2024

Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: Second Report - Humanitarian situation in Gaza HC 110 Report


Written Question
Tigray: Death
Monday 26th February 2024

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 Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 9 February (HL1953), whether they will now answer the question put; namely, what assessment they have made of reports by the Mekelle branch of the Ethiopian Ombudsman Institution on 24 January that in five camps of internally displaced people in Tigray, 900 had died due to starvation.

Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

A press release relating to the Ombudsman's report was issued on 30 January. It did not state what evidence the Ombudsman team were basing their observations on or what methodology they had used to determine cause of death. We use all available data sources to assess the severity of food insecurity across northern Ethiopia. In his recent visit to Ethiopia in February 2024, Minister Andrew Mitchell saw firsthand the worsening humanitarian situation in Tigray and announced an additional £100 million to end preventable deaths, targeting three million people across Ethiopia including those who are most at risk in the northern regions.


Written Question
Tigray: Droughts and Food Supply
Friday 9th February 2024

Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an estimate of the number of people at risk of death from (a) hunger and (b) drought in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)

During my recent visit to Ethiopia, I saw firsthand the seriousness of the humanitarian situation in Tigray. Across northern Ethiopia, including Tigray, El Nino is causing drought that is affecting 4 million people. According to assessments from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, nearly 1.4 million in Tigray will need immediate emergency food assistance because of drought.


Select Committee
First Report - The FCDO’s approach to sexual and reproductive health

Report Jan. 25 2024

Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: Another uplift of £12m to central humanitarian and health programmes is explicitly stated to include


Select Committee
Royal Holloway University of London
SZH0006 - The UK Government’s work on achieving SDG2: Zero Hunger

Written Evidence Jan. 23 2024

Inquiry: The UK Government’s work on achieving SDG2: Zero Hunger
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: Holloway, University of London Summary This short document highlights that 1. global food security situation


Lords Chamber
Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) are about 60 million people in Africa, the Middle East and central Asia who, even now in the present situation - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Add to that the numbers from Tigray and from Eritrea—a tiny country from which half a million people - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) select a panel of judges from a mix of nationalities to hear these appeals against refusals of asylum or humanitarian - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) There is an overwhelming humanitarian case for generosity. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) recommendation 7 of the Truro report and genocide and, in the light of what we have seen in Sudan, Tigray - Speech Link
3: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) Yet no country in the rich world is acting with anything like the urgency the situation demands. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I will come back to that.The situation in north Africa and the Sahel has become more chaotic. - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) We are now in a situation where it is very hard to believe the Government when they say that they are - Speech Link