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.
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
Written Evidence Jan. 23 2024
Inquiry: The UK Government’s work on achieving SDG2: Zero HungerFound: Holloway, University of London Summary This short document highlights that 1. global food security situation
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
Found: Situation and Children’s Rights Motion t hat this House has considered the humanitarian situation
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
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) China’s blocking of a UN debate on the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on the situation in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) assessment of whether UK engagement may contribute to a violation of human rights or international humanitarian - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The Foreign Secretary has been clear that Israel’s actions must comply with international humanitarian - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) unsettled.Examples of groups that are targeted include the Yazidis and groups in Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Tigray - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Government of Pakistan, which I hope the Minister will look at and consider as well.Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Tigray - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) ill-prepared to respond to some of the greatest foreign policy crises of our time: Sudan, Ukraine, Tigray - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) After all that we have seen in Ukraine, Gaza, Tigray, Darfur and Xinjiang, is that really still the UK - Speech Link
5: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) The situation is utterly bleak. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) The situation compared with 2010 is striking. More cases of rape are being prosecuted. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) ActionAid has also talked about the situation facing pregnant women giving birth under bombardment. - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) There are countless dead in Ethiopia-Tigray and in Azerbaijan-Armenia. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) I am utterly depressed about the situation, as are most of my constituents. - Speech Link
5: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Some are purely for humanitarian reasons. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) issue.Similar speech is reported to have greatly contributed to the violence and potential genocide in Tigray - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) She was right to highlight not only the situation of the Uyghur Muslims in China, which we often hear - Speech Link