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HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We want to see accountability and we want to see a deterrent effect. Obviously, it is difficult. It is challenging on the ground, but our…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy right hon. Friend, who chairs the Defence Committee, asked four or five questions in one; I want to try to do them justice, but I am conscious of the strictures of the Chair.…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on our ongoing campaign to counter Daesh. The safety and security of our citizens is obviously the Government’s…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMay I first thank the hon. Lady for her support for the military action we are taking against Daesh? We have not always had that from the Opposition side of the House, but it is…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateThat is an interesting idea. Whether something under the auspices of the UN as a whole would be the right way to go is another question, but the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right; that is a key aspect of addressing and dealing with Iran. I was in Paris recently not just with my French and German opposite numbers—we…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank my right hon. Friend, the Chair of the other Select Committee—the Intelligence and Security Committee—and he is right to raise both those issues. It is difficult for me to…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman for his support and for the forensic contributions that he makes on this important issue. As I said to the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy), we are…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank my hon. Friend the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is right to say that as well as all the material support that we provide in humanitarian terms and all the…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is important that we have a team effort in the struggle against Daesh, partly because of the severity of the threat that it poses and…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 VaccinesThe hon. Gentleman is right to pay tribute to the work that the UK has done internationally not just on COVAX and the vaccine for this pandemic but on TB, malaria, polio and a…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 VaccinesI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the great work she is doing locally but also for raising the issue of international access to the vaccine. She will know that the UK has…02 Mar 2021HANSARDGirls’ Education: Covid-19Over the past five years, UK aid has helped 8 million girls get a decent education, and, as the House knows, our global ambition is to ensure that 40 million girls have 12 years…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 VaccinesThe UK will use its G7 presidency this year to advance equitable access to safe and effective vaccines through widespread international co-operation.02 Mar 2021HANSARDGirls’ Education: Covid-19I thank my hon. Friend, and reassure her that not only do we have a target of 40 million girls getting 12 years of education, but we want 20 million girls to become literate by…02 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are having discussions with the Biden Administration on the approach to the proposed US withdrawal or drawdown from Afghanistan. It has to be linked to violence on the ground…02 Mar 2021HANSARDGirls’ Education: Covid-19I thank my hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Select Committee. I join him in welcoming the release of the young girls who were kidnapped, which I am sure came as a huge relief to…02 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsSince the last oral questions, I have visited east Africa. I have also visited Cyprus, where I met President Anastasiades and the Turkish Cypriot leader in support of the peace…02 Mar 2021HANSARDGirls’ Education: Covid-19Of course, the allocations are published formally in the normal way, as I have just described, in the autumn. In fact, the new UK aid pledge of £87 million, which the hon. Lady so…02 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI again say to the hon. Lady that we were already right out in the lead in imposing asset freezes and visa bans on 20 of the most directly responsible. She refers to the US…02 Mar 2021