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HANSARDYemenOn bringing Iran to account, the hon. Lady is absolutely right that it has had a proxy in what has happened, as it has for some years, not least in encouraging the Houthi…26 Mar 2019HANSARDYemenThe hon. Lady makes a very good point. I have already alluded to that subject in several answers. Our immediate focus, obviously, remains on ensuring that enough food is getting…26 Mar 2019HANSARDYemenThe hon. Gentleman will recognise that I cannot answer that question directly, simply because we obviously do not have that information to hand. And no, it is not a matter of our…26 Mar 2019HANSARDYemenI refer to my earlier answers. I do not wish to fob the hon. Gentleman off. Some serious allegations were made in The Mail on Sunday article. I am sure that they are well sourced,…26 Mar 2019HANSARDYemenI can really only refer the hon. Lady to what I said earlier on arms sales. Many of these are long-standing contracts, with arms that are in the hands of some of the combatants in…26 Mar 2019HANSARDYemenWill the hon. Gentleman please be assured that there is ongoing legal advice on all the matters to which he referred? I should perhaps also say, to correct the record in that…26 Mar 2019HANSARDYemenI thank the hon. Gentleman for what he has said. It is an absolutely desperate situation. We are working closely with Martin Griffiths, and will continue to do so. As I said at…26 Mar 2019HANSARDForced Live Organ ExtractionI suggest, Mrs Moon, that if the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman) wanted to speak I would be very happy to hear her and then I will sum up on that basis. As she has…26 Mar 2019HANSARDForced Live Organ ExtractionI thank the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman) for giving me a mere 29 minutes to sum up on the debate. She was ably deputised by the hon. Member for Manchester,…26 Mar 2019HANSARDForced Live Organ ExtractionThere is clearly something in the water that gives these late March babies an interest in human rights. Both those hon. Members and others have raised major concerns about live…26 Mar 2019HANSARDForced Live Organ ExtractionI will come to the hon. Lady’s points later in my speech—there is a specific passage about that. We recognise that there are international comparators, as referred to by my hon.…26 Mar 2019HANSARDForced Live Organ ExtractionI am now aware of that report and I will try to learn more in our future discussions. The Kilgour, Matas and Gutmann report was used at the recent tribunal organised by the…26 Mar 2019HANSARDForced Live Organ ExtractionI shall be delighted. I suspect my colleague, Lord Ahmad, will do that, but it makes a lot of sense, not least given our relationship in the United Nations. We shall continue to…26 Mar 2019HANSARDForced Live Organ ExtractionI do not want to make any great commitment on this—I recognise that another Government Department may well have responsibility. We do not just want to put laws in place. We want…26 Mar 2019HANSARDYemenMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and of course there is thought going into that. I see it in a different part of the world—in Afghanistan, where obviously we have had an…26 Mar 2019HANSARDBritish Council: 2019 Tailored ReviewI am announcing today the publication of the recent tailored review of the British Council, an arm’s-length body of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The British Council was…12 Mar 2019HANSARD KashmirThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to update the House on the current situation between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, as promised after the urgent question was…07 Mar 2019HANSARD KashmirI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his comments. There is a clear intent from the Pakistani authorities to ensure that things are going to be verifiable and transparent, as I…07 Mar 2019HANSARD KashmirThe hon. Gentleman knows that I cannot go as far as to satisfy him on what he said about the idea of Kashmir being a third party. We do not recognise the notional government of…07 Mar 2019HANSARD KashmirThe issue of disinformation, which the hon. Lady rightly mentions, is a global phenomenon, due in part to the nature of social media. It is something that we will try to address.…07 Mar 2019