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HANSARDSudan: Peace and DemocracyIt is not just Labour that stands in solidarity, but the whole House and the whole country. In respect of the civilian leadership, I spoke last Friday to Abdalla Hamdok, the…24 Oct 2023HANSARDSudan: Peace and DemocracyMy right hon. Friend is entirely right. We have recently contributed £600,000 to open-source investigative reporting to verify and preserve information on attacks on civilians and…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsI talk to Martin Griffiths, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, almost every day, and on Friday I attended a meeting with development Ministers…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsBy drawing all parties’ attention to the international rules of war.24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsThe Prime Minister set out yesterday very clearly what our policy is. We are doing everything we can to protect children. British aid is already making a difference by supporting…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsThe hon. Lady is entirely right that the Rafah crossing is currently the only way we can get food and relief supplies in. Supplies are coming to El Arish, but the number of trucks…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsThe hon. Gentleman sets out the tremendous suffering that is happening, but he, like me, will agree with the Prime Minister that the source of this was the appalling terrorist,…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsOn delivering aid and support, I had the opportunity to meet a very large number of the British charities and non-governmental organisations that are trying to help in Gaza, and I…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsThe answer to the hon. Lady’s perfectly proper question is that international and legal organisations all around the world will be looking at this and giving their opinions.24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael, Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access and Human RightsMy hon. Friend is quite right to warn about the proper use of aid. I can tell her that this is probably the most scrutinised programme of humanitarian relief and support that…24 Oct 2023HANSARDUN Sustainable Development GoalsPerhaps two more minutes?19 Oct 2023HANSARDUN Sustainable Development GoalsI apologise. I did not deal with that point, and should have done. The hon. Gentleman is right that the NGO sector—19 Oct 2023HANSARDUN Sustainable Development GoalsI will write to the hon. Gentleman on that point. As he said, we are all in this together, and as my hon. Friend the Member for Congleton said, we must leave no one behind.19 Oct 2023HANSARDUN Sustainable Development GoalsThis is my first experience of serving under you, Ms Bardell, and I hope that there will be many more in the future. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for…19 Oct 2023HANSARDUN Sustainable Development GoalsThe hon. Gentleman makes an extremely good point, to which I shall come back, if I may. It is a most unusual White Paper that depends on wide agreement across the political…19 Oct 2023HANSARDInternational Climate FinanceI would like to update the House on our progress towards meeting the UK’s commitment to spend £11.6 billion of International Climate Finance (ICF) between financial years 2021/22…17 Oct 2023HANSARDBiodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement: UpdateThe agreement under the United Nations convention on the law of the sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national…16 Oct 2023HANSARDClimate Finance CommitmentsAs the Prime Minister set out at COP27, we are committed to spending £11.6 billion on international climate finance over the timeframe originally envisaged.18 Jul 2023HANSARDClimate Finance CommitmentsThe hon. Lady will have noticed yesterday that there was a very considerable return of transparency in the figures published by the Foreign Office. She will have seen that the…18 Jul 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, we should make it clear that what Russia is doing is leading directly to people starving in Africa. Everyone should understand that,…18 Jul 2023