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HANSARDHIV/AIDSThe United Kingdom is a world leader in efforts to end the AIDS epidemic, including through our major investment in the Global Fund, which provided 17.5 million people with…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHIV/AIDSI am grateful to my hon. Friend for mentioning that programme. In fact, my hon. Friend the Minister for Africa visited the programme recently and was able to see its valuable work…09 Jan 2019HANSARDSyriaIt is difficult to put full figures on this, to be honest. We believe, as I indicated earlier, that we have provided 27 million food rations, 40 million medical consultations, 10…09 Jan 2019HANSARDSyriaAs I indicated to the Chair of the Select Committee, we are all extremely concerned about the potential implications of US withdrawal and what it might mean on the Turkish border…09 Jan 2019HANSARDSyriaYes indeed. To reassure the hon. Gentleman, who is the Chair of the Select Committee, we are very concerned about the potential implications, particularly on the Turkish-Syrian…09 Jan 2019HANSARDSyriaThe full details of the impact of the US withdrawal have yet to be worked through. Our focus on humanitarian aid will not be changed, and we continue to monitor the situation…09 Jan 2019HANSARDSyriaI can assure my hon. Friend that no one in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office or the Department for International Development has forgotten Syria. We are all shocked and moved by…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHIV/AIDSI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. Women and young girls are indeed a vulnerable group in relation to AIDS. Ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is a…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHIV/AIDSI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her questions. There is sometimes a difficulty with comparing spending when taking a snapshot, because programmes last for different lengths of…09 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsOur commitment to global health is designed to ensure that focus is placed on the most vulnerable, and our support for sustainable health systems ensures that the work that is…09 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am extremely grateful for the way in which the shadow Foreign Secretary puts the case. She is right to say that in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s situation, access to medical…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments and contributions as Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. I can only repeat that we will continue to do what we can in the best…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeCertainly, we very much echo the appreciation that the hon. Gentleman expresses for Nazanin’s husband and family for the way they have tried to deal with these very difficult…07 Jan 2019HANSARDForeign and Commonwealth OfficeThe hon. Member for Strangford asked about modern slavery, and I shall say a little more about that. At last year’s UN General Assembly the Prime Minister launched the “Call to…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeMy right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has been in contact with the family some 11 times since August, and I believe further contact is imminent. That support is offered here;…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank the right hon. Lady. I know her work with the IPU and her compassion in this case. Let me disentangle a couple of things. I am grateful for what she has said about a…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who knows the situation extremely well from his own diligent work in the Department some years ago. Travel advice recognises the situation of dual…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am grateful to the hon. Lady, who makes her own points very strongly. I have touched on this matter with one or two neighbours in the general context of perceptions of Iran, but…07 Jan 2019HANSARDForeign and Commonwealth OfficeThe hon. Member for Strangford asked about modern slavery, and I shall say a little more about that. At last year’s UN General Assembly the Prime Minister launched the “Call to…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI congratulate my right hon. Friend on the recent announcement and thank him for his question. Iran is a complex country. The way in which there was indeed help and assistance at…07 Jan 2019