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HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccine DonationsMy Lords, the UK will continue to donate Covid-19 vaccines to bilateral partners in line with the Prime Minister’s commitment at the G7 summit in June 2021. The primary objective…29 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyYes, my Lords, the international development strategy builds from the integrated review and articulates the Government’s strategic development goals, which are very much in line…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, I cannot make specific commitments now other than to say that the strategy that we are due to publish will take forward our commitments in the integrated review that set…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, I admit I have not seen the report that the noble Lord cites but I will dig it out after this session and convey his message, which he makes extremely well, to…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, I cannot give specific commitments but the principle is absolutely right. One of the reasons we are looking at scaling back our investments through some of the…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, we are in a position in relation to aid and aid cuts that I do not think anyone welcomes, but we are in the situation that we are in. The projections that the Government…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, it will not be a sudden decision to return to 0.7%. Of course, I hope, as everyone does, that 0.7% is something that we can return to very quickly, but it is not going…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is leading work on a new cross-governmental international development strategy. The strategy will establish an ambitious…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, the Government strongly agree with the arguments put forward by the noble Lord. The IDS priorities are fairly straightforward: honest, reliable, sustainable…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, we want to ensure that everyone has the ability to thrive and meet their potential. That is a key focus of our approach. We are restoring funding to women and girls to…25 Nov 2021HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, the Government committed some time ago—I believe it was two years ago—to double our international climate finance to £11.6 billion. There was a commitment from the Prime…25 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, we are appalled by the reports that we have received on the systematic killing of civilians; widespread sexual violence, including rape and including that of children;…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, in 2022, the UK plans to host an international conference to mark 10 years since the launch of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative. The conference will…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, the UK is engaging with Ethiopia—in fact, with both sides of the dispute—at every level imaginable and at every possible opportunity. We have a frank but constructive…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, the humanitarian needs in Tigray are at catastrophic levels, as the noble Lord said, with 90% of the population requiring life-saving aid. An escalation in violence has…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, the conflict has the capacity to spill even further out of control and expand beyond the northern region. We have struggled to deploy UK aid for the reasons I described…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, there certainly is a high risk of the sort identified by the noble Lord. We regularly discuss the situation in Ethiopia with our G7 counterparts, African leaders and…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, the African Union chairperson appointed a high representative specifically tasked to engage all parties to the conflict on options for peace. The Peace and Security…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionMy Lords, as we have just heard, the crisis has taken on an international character, with Eritrea effectively involved in fighting in Ethiopia against the TPLF, which fired…22 Nov 2021HANSARDEthiopia: Tigray RegionThe noble Lord makes an extremely important point and he is right that sexual violence has been a grim feature of this conflict. The deployment by the Preventing Sexual Violence…22 Nov 2021