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HANSARDSyriaMy hon. Friend asks a good question. Iran will say that its support for the Syrian regime was designed to stop extremist forces taking over Damascus at a crucial stage of the…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaThe hon. Lady’s question covers more than my own portfolio, but my understanding of the refugee programme has always been that it is on track. My hon. Friend the Minister for…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI know, but at present, just to reiterate, it is not possible for us to do so, so there is no question of bringing any foreign fighters anywhere. If, like others, they return to…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the Jordan conference, which we hope will indeed be a significant success. As was said earlier—and I will repeat it from the…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s comments. It would be unlike him not to have slight concern about some of the things that the Foreign Office does. I appreciate the…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. On reconstruction, the support that the UK provides at the moment is termed stabilisation and resilience, in that people who have…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI thank my right hon. Friend for his usual perceptive comments. He knows a great deal about the background to this. He asks first about the courage of aid workers. Bearing in mind…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman both for his questions and for the way in which he asked them. As I indicated, UK support of £2.81 billion over the past few years has covered…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on the wider humanitarian situation in Syria, following the statement by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary.…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI am grateful to the hon. Lady and I commend those who took part in the march and others. From the beginning of the conflict, we were clear about what had sparked it: the conduct…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his comments. As we have discussed in the House previously, the requirements of the Christian community in Syria for safety and protection…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaThe people of Syria will not be forgotten as long as the hon. Lady is in the House. She has been a consistent friend to those in Syria, right from the beginning. She and a number…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaUK funding for the work of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability contributed to the arrest of three former Syrian officials in Germany and France last month…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaThe International Development Committee and the hon. Gentleman, who chairs it, have kept a constant watch on this issue, which has really been appreciated by DFID and all our…11 Mar 2019HANSARDSyriaAs the hon. Gentleman knows, I was in the Kurdish region of Iraq about three or four weeks ago. I was able to speak to the KRG—to the then Prime Minister elect and others. Our…11 Mar 2019HANSARD YemenI thank the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) for securing this debate. I am very grateful to him and to all the members of the all-party group on Yemen for their…28 Feb 2019HANSARD YemenI remember some years ago—the right hon. Gentleman may remember as well—when we had that interlude after Ali Abdullah Saleh, and we looked at the national dialogue and at women’s…28 Feb 2019HANSARD YemenI do not think so. Actually, the parties are still discussing prisoners, but the fact that they are talking—through the UN envoy—is an advance on where we were. It is difficult,…28 Feb 2019HANSARD YemenI cannot give a precise figure, and the current UN pledging conference held in Geneva this week—the right hon. Gentleman referred to that—was seeking a further $4 billion. A lot…28 Feb 2019HANSARDForeign and Commonwealth OfficeBy good fortune, the Prime Minister and I met the Prime Minister of Lebanon on Sunday at the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. We were able to discuss not only the issue relating to…27 Feb 2019