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HANSARDEbola OutbreaksThe UK has allocated £26.9 million of UK aid funding to support the response to the current Ebola outbreak within the DRC. That funding will strengthen disease surveillance and…16 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right to raise the importance of the G20 summit, not only this year but when the UK is hosting from January. I can confirm that tackling structural imbalances,…16 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe call on the Taliban to respect the rights of women and girls, including the right to education, and condemn any ongoing restrictions. I will raise the hon. Member’s question…16 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationOn the diplomatic point, which was mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds East (Richard Burgon), I agree. We have had a bilateral relationship with the Cuban Government…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationI will.08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationThe hon. Member will know, as a former Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, that we do not discuss sanctions on the Floor of the House, but I am more than happy to meet her to…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationI thank my hon. Friend for his question and for the work he does as the chair of the APPG. I have been pleased to engage with him since he took on that role. Just to reassure him,…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationOn engagement with the US Administration, as I set out in reply to the shadow Minister, the right hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Wendy Morton), there has been a continuous…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationMy hon. Friend is right to raise the wider humanitarian concerns. I can reassure him that, through the World Food Programme and UNICEF, the UK Government continue to provide aid.…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationThe right hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. Work goes on constantly to try to work through how there can be a move towards the decisions of Cuba being for the Cuban people. I…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationWe continue to have the dialogue I have mentioned in previous answers, and we continue to be of the very strong view that diplomatic courses of action are the best way forward. We…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationI thank the right hon. Lady for the constructive way in which she always engages in these conversations on the Floor of the House. I reassure her that I would echo, and expand on,…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationI do not know if my hon. Friend missed my previous answers, but we have very publicly spent the past 30 years voting against the very thing he is complaining about. We have not…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationI know how much my hon. Friend cares about this issue, and I was pleased to meet her and other colleagues recently to discuss the challenges that the Cuban people are facing. On…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his urgent question. The United Kingdom is concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Cuba, particularly shortages of food,…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationAs I have said in previous answers, engagement remains at the highest levels, including at the British embassy in Washington with the US State Department, Secretary Rubio and…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationI agree with my right hon. Friend, and I hope he heard me say that decisions about the future of Cuba are for the Cuban people, not for any foreign country, including the United…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationThe right hon. Gentleman is right to raise those issues. The work in this space continues. We work with the US Administration, as our closest ally, on defence and national…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationWe have an ongoing dialogue. I have met Canadian and Spanish counterparts in recent months, and Cuba has been discussed. As my hon. Friend will know, US decisions about what is…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Cuba: Humanitarian SituationOn diplomatic efforts, I have said repeatedly—I am happy to reiterate it—that that work is ongoing. I have listed a number of meetings that have happened at the most senior level.…08 Jun 2026