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HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI thank the right hon. Member for raising those incredibly important issues. I was pleased that an FCDO official engaged in that meeting, which I know was a helpful exchange of…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising those issues, and I thank her and many other Members gathered here for their leadership on them. She mentioned the situation in…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to the hon. Member for his kind words. I know that he is engaged significantly on these issues, and he has been at all the discussions of them in the House. I know…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the issues he raised. He will no doubt be aware that there is a UK arms embargo for all of Sudan, and there is also a UN arms embargo on…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising those important issues and for the work of the Select Committee on these matters, including its recent hearing. She is right that the…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanMy hon. Friend raises an important point, and he is absolutely correct. The nutrition for growth conference is coming up next year in Paris, and I was discussing that yesterday…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanMy hon. Friend raises a really important point. We are indeed seeing a huge amount of misinformation circulating, and a lot of it is digital. That is why we have been determined…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to the hon. Member for his questions. On the overall aid budget, I can assure him that this is not just shifting funds around. If he looks at the programme budget…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this matter. The word that he used is absolutely correct: we have seen a staggering movement of people, both internally within…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI thank the hon. Member for his kind words. As we can see, there is considerable concern about this situation right across the House; we need to be working together on this…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. That resolution was asking for what anyone can see is desperately needed in Sudan: an end to impediments to aid; above all, an end to the…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that important question; he is of course right about the need to act against conflict-related sexual violence, which many Members have…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this—of course, she has considerable expertise in this area. The role of the Sudanese diaspora is incredibly important. I am sure that…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanPerhaps I can reassure the hon. Member that this crisis has been an absolute priority for me. As I stated before—I will not rehearse what I said previously—as soon as I came into…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising these really important issues. The UK Government have discussed these matters in detail with the UN, and I have myself done so with a…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanYes, to use the words of my hon. Friend—who of course has considerable experience in the area of humanitarian emergencies—this is a foreign policy priority for the UK Government.…28 Nov 2024HANSARD UK Leadership on SudanI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his interesting and important question. The issue of conflict prevention is absolutely fundamental, not just for me as a Minister but for…28 Nov 2024HANSARDMiddle East: Humanitarian SituationThe UK Government have been determined to use every mechanism to advance international humanitarian law. That includes within the UN Security Council, as we just discussed, but we…26 Nov 2024HANSARDMiddle East: Humanitarian SituationYes, the Foreign Secretary did discuss those matters, including directly with Mia Mottley, the Premier of Barbados, who has been leading many of the small island developing states…26 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question and for the leadership that he has shown on this issue, along with others across the House. The UK is determined to see…26 Nov 2024