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HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesMy right hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and we will continue to work with our allies. I hope he will have seen the statement put out by about a dozen of our allies after…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his support. Of course, he will understand that I will not speculate on future action. This was intended as a limited single action,…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for her work in the region. As a UN Security Council penholder on Yemen, the UK is continuing to use our diplomatic and political influence to…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesIt would not be right to speculate on future action, but what I can say is that our strikes were intended to degrade the Houthi capability and, as I said, they did—initial…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI am not entirely sure that I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s characterisation of the situation. I agree that Russia must pay for the long-term reconstruction of Ukraine and I…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI thank my right hon. Friend for raising an incredibly important point. I reassure her and the House—she will know this from her own experience—that we are steadfast in our…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesThat question is quite extraordinary. It is Houthi rockets that are endangering the lives of seafarers in the region. We have seen shipping companies welcome the action we are…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesMy right hon. and learned Friend is right. I hope he will have seen the published legal summary of our advice on this issue. This proportionate and necessary action was taken…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI thank my right hon. Friend for his excellent remarks and for his work on the Abraham accords, which have done much to bring more peace and stability to the region. He is right…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesThe right hon. Gentleman is right about the necessity of building international coalitions, and I am pleased to say that that is happening. Operation Prosperity Guardian, which we…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his support for the action in Ukraine. Let me touch on his last point, because I agree with him; we are, of course, concerned about the…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI thank and pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his work on Yemen. I say very simply that I agree with him and he makes an excellent point.15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesThe Leader of the Opposition rightly said we need to ensure that malign actors do not try to distort what we have done for their own purposes. I gently say to the hon. Lady that…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesNo. Israel has the right to act in self-defence against Hamas, who conducted a terrorist attack on it, and we continue to call for international humanitarian law to be respected…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesAgain, the hon. Gentleman has wrongly linked and conflated the situation in Israel and Gaza with the illegal attacks by the Houthis on innocent commercial shipping. That is simply…15 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI am pleased that through our new hospitals programme Hampshire Hospitals NHS foundation trust will receive significant investment that will ensure that excellent care is…10 Jan 2024HANSARDSocial Energy TariffsI will make sure that the hon. Lady gets the meeting she needs with the appropriate Minister. We are working very closely with Ofgem to make sure that the most vulnerable…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady for her decades of service in the NHS, and commend all the work of our fantastic hard-working nurses in the NHS. I am pleased that we have delivered early on…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI join my hon. Friend in welcoming this fantastic discovery. We have been capitalising on the benefits of Brexit since we left the European Union and we are making sure that we…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising what is a deeply concerning issue. As I have said before, there is no place for antisemitism or the glorification of terrorism in Britain,…10 Jan 2024