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a round-up of the day in both houses from 11:30pm this evening. First, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
questions for the international development minister Justine | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Greening and her team of ministers. Questions for the Secretary of State | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
for International Development. Mr John Howard. I would like to thank | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
the right Honourable member for Hatfield for his work in the | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
department. I would also like to thank the member for North Wood, | :00:33. | :00:49. | |
Ruislip and enough. -- Pinner. Our plan for Palestinian territories | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
contains a results framework which is updated quarterly. I draw the | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
house was my attention to my register of interest. Will the | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
Minister will assure me that no aid will go to support the glorification | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
of terrorism. The Prime Minister and I have been very clear that we | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
deplore incitement on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
investigate any allegations very closely and raise them with both the | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
Palestinian and Israeli authorities. It only goes to approved individuals | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
through a World Bank audit. Palestinian refugees from Syria are | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
suffering enormously in that country. What more can we do to | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
ensure that the vital work of the UN relief and Works agency has secured | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
funding for the long term? I had the chance to meet with the head of the | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
UN relief and Works agency only last week and we discussed the need to | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
make sure that their funding is sustained. They do absolutely | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
critical work and in the context of needing to improve the international | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
response to more protracted crises we can look at the work that they | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
are doing in relation to Palestinian refugees. Wouldn't it be better that | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
money was put into direct projects rather than through third-party | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
organisations where we cannot really be sure of the outcome? I can | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
hopefully reassure him that the agencies we work with and the | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
organisations are ones that we know are ones we can achieve value for | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
money results on the ground with. I have been an aide disciplinarian, | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
making sure we get value for money. We have to get value from the | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
agencies that are there and we have a multilaterally agreed relief fund | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
making sure that this is done progressively. The secretary of | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
state will be aware of the guidance on the Foreign Office website that | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
warns against investing in the region, and other economic | :03:32. | :03:43. | |
activities in Israeli settlements because of the legal nature of those | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
settlements. Does she agree with me that it is perfectly reasonable for | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
the public and private institutions to pay due regard to this advice | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
when they make their own investment and procurement decisions? That is | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
good Foreign Office advice. We have been very clear that we deplore | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
illegal settlements. They are taking as further away from a two state | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
solution and peace in that part of the world when we need to be taken | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
what could be final chances to reach a two state solution. We'd like to | :04:19. | :04:30. | |
welcome the member for Riesling North and Pinner. How does the | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
Secretary of State justify the decrease in funding to organisations | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
like the United nations relief and Works agency? I don't recognise the | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
statement she has just made. The United Kingdom has made sure that we | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
got support to vulnerable Palestinians, not only in Gaza but | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
also in the West Bank. We help fund, for example, the materials monetary | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
unit in Gaza. I'm sure she is aware of that and it would be helpful to | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
have her support on it. Gaza has the highest unemployment in the world. | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
The World Bank estimates that by the end of 2014, youth unemployment had | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
reached 60%. Extensive restrictions inhibit employment. | :05:32. | :05:46. | |
Gaza is still faces restrictions on its agricultural land and fishable | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
waters. Until such restrictions are taken away, we will continue to work | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
with one arm tied behind our back. Restrictions inhibit employment. We | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
will not give up. We have a programme for economic improvement | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
that is making slow and frustrating improvement but nevertheless | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
improvement. Can we make it clear that supporting Palestinian people | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. I wanted to clarify | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
that. Would the Minister not agree that the appalling situation in Gaza | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
which he has given the figures for, shows the need for developed | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
democracies to do far more. What hope can there be for Palestinian | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
people when they are faced with so little hope of getting jobs and | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
having a decent life. Shouldn't we be far more concerned with the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Palestinian tragedy than we are. I agree with the honourable gentleman | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
and we do everything we can diplomatically to raise the sites of | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
the world community and will continue to do so. Would my | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
honourable friend not agree that the bill cited campaign for boycotts and | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
this investment is also leading to greater unemployment amongst | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Palestinian people? The problem faced by Gaza is restrictions and | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
the extension of restrictions is a block to peace. May I place on | :07:33. | :07:45. | |
record my personal respect for the honourable member for Welwyn garden | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
and Hatfield in kick-starting the image Africa campaign. SMEs will | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
play a critical role in sustaining and creating jobs in poor countries | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
and we have a programme focused on raising finance for SMEs and social | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
enterprises. He has a reputation for being an innovator. Will he look | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
carefully at the ways in which he can help? The UK is the leading | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
centre of crowdfunding in the world. This can do so much especially for | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
winning in the developing world. Will he talked to people like the | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
Chancellor of the Exchequer to get some movement behind this? I | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
completely agree with you. He has been a long-term supporter of the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
power of the crowd. If we get the regulation and technology right, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
this is very stable. We have a manifesto commitment to developed | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
this. It is exactly what we're doing with the energy partnership which is | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
looking crowdfunding partnerships in Africa. Would he agree that | :09:09. | :09:23. | |
institutions that promote the conservation of Endangered Species | :09:24. | :09:34. | |
Act should be promoted? Yes. Well making sure that small local | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
enterprises can be promoted, what funds can he give that those funds | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
don't find their way into the hands of larger international condom Ritz? | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
--, Blom rates. - conglomerates. We know that most | :09:49. | :10:14. | |
sustainable jobs come from small and medium-sized organisations. That is | :10:15. | :10:26. | |
what we will concentrate on. My honourable friend will know that | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
this is enormously important. Inclusive growth is a central pillar | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
of our framework going forward. We expect that our support over the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
next seven years would mobilise finance to over 200 SMEs, many of | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
which will be headed by women. Small businesses are now facing an | :10:52. | :11:04. | |
upsurge in ethnic violence with foreign fighters coming in from the | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
web dev. Can I urge the Minister, as he undertakes the bilateral aid | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
review, to look again at our decision to leave the room date in | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
2011 and to look very carefully at the potential need to go back in | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
there and have a presence on the ground? | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
I share the honourable Lady's concern about the situation and we | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
should be aware that we don't have a bilateral programme there but we do | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
a lot in terms of humanitarian support. I take onboard fully about | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
her remark on the cost of capital to smaller organisations. I refer back | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
to Mike's pretty offensive or technology can help us reduce that. | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
Question four. I congratulate the people on their historic elections | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
which were actually supported by a British funded trained observers. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
That is an important step towards greater democracy and the UK will | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
support inclusive support in Burma, support improvements to the business | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
climate, the financial sector, agricultural productivity and | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
diversified livelihoods and encourage more private sector | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
investment in infrastructure. In the wake of the amazing victory, | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
to my right honourable friend expend her what her department is doing to | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
increase the women representation in Burma, which has been dominated for | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
far too long by men and the military? Is absolutely right. In | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
fact, women face specific in Burma, did predominantly world economy, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
largely access to finance, land, skills and credit. We are targeting | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
these issues and programmes that have helped for example to provide | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
affordable credit access for over 140,000 women, but we are also | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
looking at how we can help women move into other sectors such as | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
garments might affect her were often conditions and pay are better. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
In assisting the Burmese nation and new regime with international | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
development, will the Minister assure that that's regime is aware | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
of the ongoing persecution of minorities in Burma, which needs to | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
be dealt with as the new nation state take shape? | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
We will of course be raising those issues. I think we know from so many | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
other parts of the world that governments that are successful are | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
inclusive in governments, with respect to minorities. I should also | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
tell the House that one of the pieces of work that will be underway | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
will be doubling our support for a governance project that is taking | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
place within the Burmese parliament, which has seen our clerk there in | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
recent years and we will be doubling up the number of clerks there to | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
help them and make sure their democracy can flourish as ours has. | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
Number five. It's completely inadequate, Mr Speaker, the demand | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
exceeds the supply by a factor of four times. 96% of the extracted | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
water fails World Health Organisation's safety standards. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
A terrible situation, 26% of all diseases in Gaza are directly | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
associated with poor water supply. Clean water is limited to 70 L per | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
person per day and this will fall drastically over the coming years. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
And according to the UN, the underground coastal Apple fire will | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
be unusable by 2016. What can be done about this? Is a just a case of | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
lifting that Israeli blockade and getting on with life? | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
We are currently spending some 600,000 euros on a project to assist | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
with the desalination and there are funds available through our climate | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
change funds for long-term solution to this problem. But Mr Speaker, the | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
level of investment and the marshalling of the factors of | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
production will require a long-term peace process to be viable. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
Full. The honourable member speaks about the blockade, but surely if | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
they did not embrace Hamas, if they did not continue a file rockets into | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Israel, they wouldn't need to be a blockade in the first place? | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
Mr Speaker, we were continually with both sides to ease the economic | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
edition sent to bring about a settlement. | :15:31. | :15:40. | |
Natalie McGarry. Not here. Stephen Phillips. Number seven. | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
Mr Speaker, it is one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, 80% of | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
the lemons 21 million people are in need of assistance and the United | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Kingdom is playing its part, we have committed some ?75 million and we | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
are the fourth largest owner. Thank you very much, I am grateful | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
to my honourable friend for the answer. I wonder if you could update | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
the House as to what role the United Kingdom Government is playing to | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
help bring about a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Yemen. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
I think my honourable friend for that. Peace talks began today and | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
yesterday a cease-fire commenced. I would urge all parties to observe | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
the cease-fire. Her Majesty's ambassador are in the margins of the | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
conference, peace conference, affording what assistance they can. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
I welcome all the efforts that have been made by the Government, | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
including the cease-fire. But the real problem is getting aid into | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
Yemen. What can we do to raise the blockade? | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
We have invested ?1.7 million in the UN vessel investigation mechanism. I | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
hope that that will have a quantum effect on the number of vessels that | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
are able to dock in the ports, 60 last month, 55 the month before. It | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
is getting better, but we are far short of what is necessary. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
My right honourable friend will no doubt be aware of the recent reports | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
by Save the Children which highlighted the devastating impact | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
of the conference does not conflict on the medical facilities in Yemen, | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
some 69 hospitals destroyed or damaged by the end of October. What | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
can the Government do in the interim to assure they are dissuaded from | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
targeting medical facilities? My right honourable friend is | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
absolutely right, that report is being scrutinised and investigated. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
We are calling on all confidence to observe international law. My right | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
honourable friend the Secretary of State made this very forcefully in | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
his recent visit. Following that reply, does the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
Minister agree that there is an overwhelming case for United Nations | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
human rights Council which has referenced humanitarian laws and 17 | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
times to call for an investigation into breaches of international | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
humanitarian law in Yemen? Mr Speaker, we supported the | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
resolution. Mr Speaker, the conflict in Yemen | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
has seen 6000 dead and 30,000 injured. The World Health | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
Organisation is saying that health services are on the bridge of | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
collapse. As it was world universal Health Service coverage day | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
yesterday will he today commit to help rebuilding their crippled | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
system? We have already committed ?75 | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
million to this, the worst crisis in the world. I do give that | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
commitment. We are already planning for the Beacon search in of Yemen. | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
-- helping build up Yemen. What about the concern reports from | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Amnesty International and others that British made weapons sold to | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Saudi Arabia are being used in the conflict in breach of human rights | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
laws? The United Kingdom has the toughest | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
standards for the export of weapons. The honourable leader should be | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
aware that the Coalition is acting in support of the legitimate | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Government of Yemen after an illegal coup by an armed... Force. | :19:31. | :19:43. | |
For a moment about the honourable gentleman was going to be inaudible, | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
which is pretty rare. Topical questions. | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
Thank you Mr Speaker. Since the last session, at welcome the news that | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Sierra Leone's a beloved -- of outbreak is officially over. My | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
thanks go to all across the Government, the Armed Forces and | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
NGOs who helped save an estimated 56,000 lives. For my written | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
minister in 2012, we are on track to enter traditional age programme to | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
India by the end of this year, shifting to a relationship based on | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
technical relationships and investment. I became the first | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
development minister last month to chair a meeting of the UN Security | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Council in New York discussing the crisis in Syria and the importance | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
of development, delivering peace and security. | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
Britain has a lot to be proud of in its international developments | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
pending, but does the Minister agree with me that some rural states | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
continue to undermine the UK's good efforts in the third World. Does she | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
agree that Qatar should be stripped of the World Cup because there will | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
be more migrant third World workers slaughtered there in the run-up to | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
the World Cup and there will actually be professional footballers | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
playing their? Well, I am sure those people running | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
the show will have been hurt his points very clearly. He will be | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
aware that some of the work that we do is in terms of improving workers' | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
conditions. Mr Foster, your moment has arrived. | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
Given the vital... You given the vital importance of rebuilding | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
reprocess -- rebuilding process in Syria, what discussions is the | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
department having with our international partners in what | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
financial commitments have been made to develop a long-term plan for | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
this? He will be aware as my right | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
honourable friend the prime Mr signalled that the UK has pledged at | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
least ?1 million to Syria's reconstruction and we are already | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
updating our of the sting planning for reconstruction programmes with | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
donors with the expertise of the UN and international financial | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
institutions in the private sector will be essential. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
There is a lot of noise. Probably animated discussion about Christmas | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
shopping or the like, but we must hear the questions and answers. | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
On the question of Syria, how many Syrian refugees will the Government | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
help resettle in this country by Christmas? | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
The Prime Minister will be giving an update shortly on that, I think we | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
can be proud of the role that the United Kingdom has played, leading | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
the humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis and all the support we | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
have provided right from day one to refugees affected by this crisis. | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Michael Tomlinson. What steps can the Secretary of State take to help | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
assess the Syrians displaced and neighbouring countries such as | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Jordan, especially over the coming winter months? | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
This financial year we have provided nearly ?13 million to 11 partners | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
who are helping to prepare and respond to the onset of winter | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
across Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. That will help provide warm | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
clothing, blankets, fuel and cash to vulnerable families. | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
Karen Smith. 2 million series children live in areas that are | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
beyond the area of humanitarian assistance. In the late of recent | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
strikes, what action is she taking to reach these desperate children? | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
We are constantly working with UN agencies and NGOs to improve our | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
axis within Syria. We estimate there is probably around half a million | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
people, including children, that we cannot reach, but we will try our | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
level best to make sure that we maintain our existing network, reach | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
into those areas as fighting stops. James Morris. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
With the Secretary of State agree with me that she, her department has | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
got a vital role to play in the livery on the UK's Government | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
commitments in the climate change conference agreements last week? | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
Absolutely. We have been scaling up or renewable energy work in Africa, | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
expanding the provision of climate risk in vulnerable countries, but we | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
are also supporting increased investment in low carbon | :24:20. | :24:20. | |
technologies and clean energy research. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Does she agree that noting the continual loss in life in Syria, | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
Iraq these central African Republican the escalated situation | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
that the Government would benefit from applying a mass atrocity | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
prevention lands in order to do policy? | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
She may be aware that in our recent published a strategy, we committed | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
to invest around 50% of our investment in so-called fragile | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
areas, precisely because we need you recognise that it is not just about | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
dealing with conflict after this happened, witty to do work to help | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
prevent conflict to deal with fragility prior to issues taking | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
place that cause huge distress. Could be right honourable lady tell | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
the House, Church apartment has spent on humanitarian existence in | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
Syria in neighbouring countries receiving Syrian refugees in the | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
last two years? Over the course of the entire | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
department, we have provided now around ?1.1 billion, our biggest | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
ever response to any humanitarian crisis. Half of that has been inside | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Syria, around half of its of 40 people in the region, clearly there | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
are now 4.4 million refugees outside of Syria. It is vital that this work | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
continues and will continue to lead. Following the report for the | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
Department for International Development by the University of | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
Sussex, what does the Minister consider to the be main risks close | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
to the most-favored-nation low-income countries from the | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
transatlantic trade and investment partnership? | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
Our aid policy is not only helping to improve the prospects and the | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
lives of millions of people in poverty around the world, it is also | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
in our national interest as well. I have just talked about what we are | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
doing and how it is important in terms of UK security and | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
international security, it is also important in terms of prosperity and | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
those international rules that he talks about can be a key way in | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
which we see prosperity enabled through allowing freer trade that | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
can help developing countries trade their way out of a dependents. | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
What my right honourable friend tell the House what different are doing | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
to stop the problem with malaria in the north of Uganda and which I'm | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
going to visit in the new year and a note if it is working hard there, | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
but that she tell the House what it is? | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
We have got a range of programmes, including in Uganda, that it helps | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
to do the very important intervention of provision and we | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
have seen over the last 15 years that the deaths from malaria has | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
fallen by two thirds, important to cause in some countries 40% of their | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
health Budget goes purely on responding to malaria. | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
Is the Secretary of State aware of the recent arrest in the lowering of | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
two men for having consensual sex? Will the Government make urgent | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
representations to them allowing the Government actually the cause of the | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
UN ambassador calling for them to live up in their international human | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
rights obligations and make sure these charges are dropped? We will | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
be making representation. She is absolutely right to flag that up as | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
a key area of human rights that needs to be addressed, wherever it | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
takes place. Questions to the Prime Minister. | :27:48. | :28:05. | |
We all watched his exciting take-off yesterday and is the first Briton to | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
visit the International Space Station it signals a landmark in | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
this country's involvement in space exploration. I'm proud the | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
government took the decision to fund it and we wish him the best of luck. | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and | :28:23. | :28:23. |