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