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HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaI beg to move, That this House has considered the Tenth Report of the International Development Committee, Forced displacement in Africa: Anchors not walls, HC 1433, and the…04 Jul 2019HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaMy hon. Friend raises an incredibly important point. I will say something about Sudan a little later in my speech, but he is absolutely right to raise the specific context of…04 Jul 2019HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaI welcome what has been said about resettlement. Can I ask her, as the Minister for Africa, to liaise between the Foreign Office and the Home Office to look at the options for…04 Jul 2019HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaThe focus of this inquiry was east Africa, because we felt that it merited specific attention. However, in the previous Parliament our first report was on the Syrian refugee…04 Jul 2019HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaI thank the Minister. I am conscious of time, so I will draw my remarks to a close. We were disappointed that the Government rejected the recommendation for a coherent…04 Jul 2019HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaI thank the Minister and everyone who participated in the debate. Let me respond briefly on three points. The first is education, which I think everyone has spoken about. I…04 Jul 2019HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I think the answer is that it is still an ongoing process, but perhaps the Minister can give us a definitive response.04 Jul 2019HANSARDForced Displacement in AfricaThe hon. Gentleman is right. It is for the Government to decide on the numbers, but there is an enthusiasm and commitment in constituencies including his and mine and, I am sure,…04 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for International DevelopmentI thank the hon. Gentleman, who served with distinction on the Committee until relatively recently. This is always a challenge when we undertake visits, because we are there to…01 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for International DevelopmentIt is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson). I congratulate him on securing this opportunity to scrutinise in the main Chamber DFID and its…01 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for International DevelopmentI absolutely agree with the Minister on that. It is very important that, if we are no longer in the European Union, British NGOs are still able to apply for these sorts of…01 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for International DevelopmentI am delighted to take that intervention from my friend the hon. Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy), whom we miss on the Committee. He is an extremely eloquent and powerful voice…01 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for International DevelopmentI agree. I am keen to emphasise that the Government’s own reviews suggest that most of these European-run programmes are good, so there is a strong likelihood that we would, if…01 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for International DevelopmentI thank my hon. Friend. He is tireless. He has lobbied me privately to do that and I do not blame him for lobbying me publicly. There are other members of the Committee here who…01 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for International DevelopmentI absolutely agree. When DFID was created in 1997, the UK governorship of the World Bank shifted from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Secretary of State for International…01 Jul 2019HANSARD Sustainable Development GoalsI absolutely share my hon. Friend’s concern, not least when the guiding principle of the goals is to leave no one behind. If we are failing to engage with disabled people and…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Sustainable Development GoalsThe Minister says there will be publication this week: is she able to confirm that we will publish as we submit to the UN so that it will be publicly available including to…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Sustainable Development GoalsAlthough I might express it slightly differently myself, I do share my hon. Friend’s concern. It is incredibly important that we learn from this experience for future VNRs; I will…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Sustainable Development GoalsI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the leadership that she has shown on this issue and the work of her Committee, to which I will return in a moment. She is absolutely right. To…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Sustainable Development GoalsIt is a pleasure to follow three very thoughtful speeches—from the Secretary of State, from the shadow Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan…11 Jun 2019