Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) He was previously a senior figure in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) More than 339 million people are now in need of direct humanitarian assistance, and in those countries - Speech Link
Found: C onflict and insecurity have also contributed to the humanitarian situation, both from localised violence
Report Mar. 10 2023
Inquiry: Debt relief in low-income countriesFound: global inflation have placed low-income countries’ public finances under extreme pressure, and the situation
Report Mar. 02 2023
Inquiry: Aid spending in the UKFound: The Government is legally and morally obliged to support people fleeing conflict and humanitarian crises
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2020 to Question 8948 on Tigray: Humanitarian Situation, how many people were extradited from the US to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2018.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
Year | Total number extradited | Total number extradited for non-violent offences | Total number extradited for violent offences |
2018 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2020 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2021 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
2022 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2023* | 3 | 1 | 2 |
* Figures until 24 February 2023
For the above table, we have taken non-violent offences to include:
These figures provide updates on previously published statistics for 2018. All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.
Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) protracted nature of the conflict, the significant threat of exposure to violence and the many other humanitarian - Speech Link
2: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) That is not a situation that we can tolerate. As hon. - Speech Link
3: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) of covid-19, conflict, the climate crisis and poverty means that more children around the world need humanitarian - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) reductions of the ODA budget, we will ensure that we focus on the poorest and most vulnerable, the humanitarian - Speech Link
Found: situation According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA): • 15.8
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) The UK Government have said that the use of food as a weapon of war in Tigray could constitute a war - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) However, our focus tonight is also on the urgent humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) The situation is at risk of getting, and is likely to get, worse. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) My job was to help deliver humanitarian aid, but the best way to do that is when there is no fighting - Speech Link
2: Saqib Bhatti (CON - Meriden) I also visited a school in north London and got to see at first hand the sad situation of our children—and - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) atrocities are being committed in Ukraine, against the Rohingya people, against the Uyghur people, and in Tigray - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) Devastatingly, 1940 saw the first of an onslaught of mass murders of Jewish people.The situation became - Speech Link
Jan. 20 2023
Source Page: UK announces support to Ethiopian drought and conflict-affected regionsFound: Funding will support people facing the drastic impacts of drought and conflict across Ethiopia including Tigray