:00:11. > :00:22.Order, order. Holly Lynch. Question number one. We are doing climate
:00:23. > :00:25.smart development, and through the international climate fund we are
:00:26. > :00:28.helping millions of people cope with the effects of climate change and
:00:29. > :00:32.giving 6.2 million people access to clean energy. The Prime Minister
:00:33. > :00:36.recently announced that over the next five years the UK climate
:00:37. > :00:43.funding will increase by at least 50%. 2015 is a once in a generation
:00:44. > :00:46.opportunity to make progress on both international development and
:00:47. > :00:53.climate change. In countries like Bangladesh and regions of Africa,
:00:54. > :00:57.connection between climate change and issues like child marriage is
:00:58. > :01:00.stark. The impact on livelihood of their homes, they are taking the
:01:01. > :01:03.decision to see their daughters married earlier and earlier in the
:01:04. > :01:07.hope that at least she will have a roof over her head and enough to
:01:08. > :01:13.eat. Too often this gamble is leaving girls at risk. We need a
:01:14. > :01:16.question. I hope that we will resolve climate change in order to
:01:17. > :01:19.deal with international department. She is right to point out that
:01:20. > :01:23.climate change has a number of different impacts that go well
:01:24. > :01:28.beyond simply the environment and impact people, too. She will know
:01:29. > :01:33.that last year we hold that Girls' On it. This was about harnessing and
:01:34. > :01:38.increasing the momentum to tackle child marriage worldwide. That is a
:01:39. > :01:44.flagship programme to do just that -- girls summit. 660 million
:01:45. > :01:47.Africans currently have no access to power at all. Can Mike honourable
:01:48. > :01:51.friend explain what she is doing to make sure that the global goals are
:01:52. > :01:57.met, but being careful and cautious about climate change. She will be
:01:58. > :02:01.pleased to hear that last week my honourable friend, the member for a
:02:02. > :02:06.while when garden city, announced a brand-new programme but the UK will
:02:07. > :02:13.be leading called Energy Africa, it is aborted by Kofi Annan meaning
:02:14. > :02:20.that we can get energy two people who are least likely to afford it. I
:02:21. > :02:22.wonder if she is concerned in anyway of the signals that the Department
:02:23. > :02:26.of energy and climate have been given from this country in the lack
:02:27. > :02:30.of support for renewable energy on the change in the regime and what
:02:31. > :02:35.that might mean for lessons in other countries? There are two aspects to
:02:36. > :02:39.tackling climate change. One is mitigation, many developed countries
:02:40. > :02:43.like the UK have significant plans to transition to becoming low carbon
:02:44. > :02:46.economies, but for many others, critically off in developing
:02:47. > :02:51.countries, the challenge is really about adaptation to how they are
:02:52. > :02:55.able to read that the climate change, which often hits them first,
:02:56. > :03:00.but also sustainable growth and development of the less. Could I
:03:01. > :03:03.congratulate her department on the excellent work that they have done
:03:04. > :03:08.with the Nepal the government on the community through forestry
:03:09. > :03:12.programme. It has seen the forest station increase in the poll. Have
:03:13. > :03:13.we got lessons to learn for other areas in which her department
:03:14. > :03:23.operates -- Nepal Matt when you work with a grain of nature
:03:24. > :03:27.and put in place programmes which allowed livelihoods to be sick
:03:28. > :03:31.successful and profitable, that can go hand-in-hand with preserving the
:03:32. > :03:35.environment. That is one of the number the department has in place
:03:36. > :03:47.to tackle reforestation and ensure that it happens. Question number
:03:48. > :03:52.two. We are supporting 11 partners with ?221 billion for the onset of
:03:53. > :03:59.winter. Vulnerable refugees will receive warm clothes, thermal
:04:00. > :04:06.blankets, fuel and cash. The Minister will be aware that in
:04:07. > :04:10.Lebanon, around 190,000 refugee families do not live in formal
:04:11. > :04:14.camps. Those who cannot afford to rent accommodation are often forced
:04:15. > :04:23.to live in tented settlements in rural areas or unfurnished buildings
:04:24. > :04:27.in urban areas. What steps are the department taking to support those
:04:28. > :04:32.who live outside as well as inside the refugee camps? As the honourable
:04:33. > :04:36.gentleman observes, there are no refugee camps in Lebanon. I visited
:04:37. > :04:41.the settlement to which he refers, and it is precisely for that reason
:04:42. > :04:49.that we support Unicef and the UNHCR to make the provision that we are
:04:50. > :04:52.paying for. Code the Minister told a House whether the persecuted
:04:53. > :04:56.Christians and other religious minorities are able to get into the
:04:57. > :05:03.camps, and whether they will be able to remain within them and take
:05:04. > :05:07.winter refuge? Mr Speaker, I have visited camps that are specifically
:05:08. > :05:12.for Christians. But I would be reluctant to make any kind of aid
:05:13. > :05:18.provision specific to a religious conversion, because that would be to
:05:19. > :05:26.port combustible on a conflict which is already in process. Mr Speaker,
:05:27. > :05:31.refugee children in Europe also face a tough winter. Last week, the UNHCR
:05:32. > :05:35.expressed concern that unaccompanied children moving in Europe are at a
:05:36. > :05:39.heightened risk of violence and abuse, especially in reception
:05:40. > :05:44.centres. Save the children operates in Italy and Greece, they identified
:05:45. > :05:47.that these children are operating a high level of psychological
:05:48. > :05:50.distress. Does the Minister agree that is because these children have
:05:51. > :05:55.arrived in Europe, it does not mean that they are safe, and can he
:05:56. > :05:58.remind the Prime Minister that I wrote to him on the 11th of
:05:59. > :06:04.September and I am still awaiting an answer? I don't dig that the Prime
:06:05. > :06:08.Minister will be needing any reminder about the nature of the
:06:09. > :06:15.crisis. It is precisely for these reasons that we provide core funding
:06:16. > :06:20.to the UNHCR and Unicef. The United Kingdom is rightly, in my view,
:06:21. > :06:25.taking 20,000 refugees. Their right eight categories of profiles of
:06:26. > :06:29.resettlement under the UNHCR guidelines -- there. Will the
:06:30. > :06:32.Government be using those guidelines, or will we be
:06:33. > :06:38.introducing our own guidelines, given that the eight categories do
:06:39. > :06:47.not include widows orphans? Mr Speaker, we will be using the UNHCR
:06:48. > :06:50.guidelines. Thank you, Mr Speaker, can I pre-emptively welcome the new
:06:51. > :06:54.Labour front bench team and look forward to working with them on
:06:55. > :06:57.these important matters. Does the onset of winter and the challenges
:06:58. > :07:00.it brings not highlight the importance of the UK playing a
:07:01. > :07:03.diplomatic role in resolving the crisis in Syria, and does the
:07:04. > :07:10.Minister agree that as the winter sets in and family start to freeze,
:07:11. > :07:16.this is what the government migration be prioritising? I agree
:07:17. > :07:23.in Tiley that we must bend every muscle to providing a settlement --
:07:24. > :07:26.entirely. In supporting preparation for winter, can Mike honourable
:07:27. > :07:32.friend confirmed that it is the UK that is taking the lead in Europe in
:07:33. > :07:37.providing more resources than any of other of our European allies. He is
:07:38. > :07:42.quite right. This is the greatest humanitarian response that we have
:07:43. > :07:50.made to any emergency ever. Diane Abbott. There are terrible reports
:07:51. > :07:56.of the conditions in the Syrian refugee camps on the Greek islands
:07:57. > :08:01.like Lesbos. No shelter, no food, children's sleeping in bin bags, and
:08:02. > :08:06.conditions can only get worse as winter approaches. Is the Government
:08:07. > :08:11.really prepared to turn its back on people like these? We have already
:08:12. > :08:19.done work and are doing work with the UNHCR and the Red Cross. Chris
:08:20. > :08:23.Davies. Question three, Mr Speaker. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I should take
:08:24. > :08:27.the opportunity to welcome the shadow front bench team into their
:08:28. > :08:30.roles, I look forward to debate but also hopefully constructively
:08:31. > :08:35.working with them on the common cause on this agenda. Mr Speaker,
:08:36. > :08:38.the root causes of migration are diverse, they include conflict, lack
:08:39. > :08:42.of security, and also lack of opportunity and jobs. That is why we
:08:43. > :08:47.are providing help and security for refugees are affected by the Syrian
:08:48. > :08:51.prizes, and when we are doubling our jobs and growth it is not only did
:08:52. > :08:56.for the people in the country, it is in our national interest. The focus
:08:57. > :09:00.in recent weeks has been on migrants from the Syrian conflict, but what
:09:01. > :09:08.is her department doing to tackle migration from Africa? Two things,
:09:09. > :09:12.in short, working to create jobs. We doubled our economic development
:09:13. > :09:15.work across the department. Also helping African countries cope with
:09:16. > :09:21.refugees and displaced people that they themselves have, for example in
:09:22. > :09:25.Ethiopian, Sudan and Kenya. Thank you. Can the Minister confirm that
:09:26. > :09:27.migrants