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HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, I can. Yesterday I attended a meeting convened by the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, and it put out a statement last night which I very much hope will reassure the…12 Dec 2023HANSARDPoints of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Government, as the hon. Lady knows, is seamless. While the Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero is anxious to support the…12 Dec 2023HANSARDRelease of HostagesThe hon. Gentleman is right to emphasise the importance of humanitarian pauses, and preferably humanitarian pauses that are several days long. We are doing everything we can to…12 Dec 2023HANSARDZimbabweThe hon. Lady is right that Zimbabwe has a productive and vibrant diaspora in the United Kingdom, and we hear their views many times. Britain warned that the election needed to be…12 Dec 2023HANSARDInternational Development White PaperIt is always a pleasure to meet my hon. Friend, who has an office next to mine in the Foreign Office. May I thank her for her comments about the publication of the White Paper?…12 Dec 2023HANSARDZimbabweI regularly discuss a broad range of issues, including Zimbabwe, with Commonwealth counterparts, most recently on Sunday in Dubai when I met the Commonwealth secretary-general,…12 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government are focused on our vital priorities, notably: supporting Ukraine, standing with Israel, and providing aid to Palestinian civilians. The Foreign Secretary and I met…12 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineWe are doing everything we can to help the hostages to whom she referred and to ensure that they come home. We do that through negotiations, not least in Qatar, and through the…12 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineYes. We certainly agree with the United States that Gaza should be under Palestinian control in due course and that there is no place for Hamas in all of that. In respect of my…12 Dec 2023HANSARDViolence in the West BankBritain is providing some overflight of Gaza to help us identify, and move forward the issue of recovering, the hostages. That is exactly the right thing to do.12 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I said earlier, we do stress the importance of abiding by the rules of war. I pay tribute to the brave humanitarian workers who put themselves in harm’s way, unarmed, to help…12 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to put it in those terms. The Foreign Secretary met the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba at the NATO-Ukraine Council. My hon. Friend will know…12 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThe Government strongly support the two-state solution. Of course, before these terrible events on 7 October, there were new partnerships with Israel developing across the middle…12 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyAs I have repeatedly set out to the House, the reasons why the Government, and indeed the Opposition Front Bench, are unable to call for a ceasefire are very clear.11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyThe team in our mission at the UN in New York works night and day to try and get progress on the terrible events taking place in the middle east and it will be encouraged by the…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyThe UN Secretary-General and the British Government work extremely closely together; it is an extraordinarily important and close relationship for both parties. But I have set out…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyI have set out the fact that Britain has the toughest export licences and regulations anywhere in the world. Of course, if the hon. Lady has any evidence of those licences being…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. The Government are undertaking extensive and global diplomatic engagement to get much greater aid into Gaza, support British…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his questions. I recognise the enormous authority that Lord Cameron holds in these matters and the right hon. Gentleman’s request that he…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyI recognise the passion with which the hon. Lady speaks, but I have explained in some detail why the Government felt it was not possible to support the resolution. We did not…11 Dec 2023