:00:08. > :00:13.Good morning and welcome to BBC Parliament's live coverage of the
:00:14. > :00:18.House of Commons on a special Parliamentary day, macro three. At
:00:19. > :00:26.12 noon, David Cameron will answer questions from the Labour leader
:00:27. > :00:32.Jeremy Corbyn plus backbencher MPs in Prime Minister questions. The
:00:33. > :00:35.Chancellor will then make his Budget statement, George Osborne's eight
:00:36. > :00:44.budget, and he is expected to announce new allocations and cuts in
:00:45. > :00:48.spending. Jeremy Corbyn will reply to be Budget, the SNP will give
:00:49. > :00:53.their response and then the debate is opened up to the rest of the
:00:54. > :01:02.house. Join me for a round-up of the day in both the Houses of Parliament
:01:03. > :01:05.at 11pm. Firstly, questions to the International Development Secretary
:01:06. > :01:23.Justine Greening and her ministerial team.
:01:24. > :01:37.Order! Order! Questions to the Secretary of State for International
:01:38. > :01:43.Development. The UK continues to provide essential support to Malawi
:01:44. > :01:51.in health, education and economic assistance. We support increasing
:01:52. > :01:57.access to justice for women and vulnerable groups, accountability
:01:58. > :02:00.and governance reforms. Does she agree that domestic resource
:02:01. > :02:06.mobilisation is one of the best ways to ensure poor countries are able to
:02:07. > :02:10.fix their own problems and what conversations as she had with the
:02:11. > :02:14.Chancellor of Exchequer to ensure the tax treaty between Malawi and
:02:15. > :02:23.the UK helps the people of Malawi? An important point and the UK helped
:02:24. > :02:27.to establish a tax initiative which will see our country along with many
:02:28. > :02:31.others stepping up our support to develop tax systems and we do it in
:02:32. > :02:37.conjunction with HMRC. I established a joint working group with the HMRC
:02:38. > :02:44.to send officials out to countries including Malawi to help with tax
:02:45. > :02:50.systems so I can assure him we work closely with them. On the tax
:02:51. > :02:57.treaty, can I ask the Secretary of State more broadly what role it will
:02:58. > :03:03.play as the tax treaty with Malawi is renegotiated? In particular,
:03:04. > :03:09.whether it is supporting Malawi in efforts to reduce poverty? HMRC lead
:03:10. > :03:14.on these negotiations but they are progressing well and the House might
:03:15. > :03:18.be interested to know that the Malawi government put out a press
:03:19. > :03:21.statement on how it feels the negotiations are going and they
:03:22. > :03:31.talked about fruitful discussions to modern eyes -- modern eyes systems.
:03:32. > :03:35.They will work alongside the Treasury to ensure the tax systems
:03:36. > :03:42.are developed so that in time they can sell fund their own development,
:03:43. > :03:51.releasing the UK from doing that. -- self fund. The UK's currents treaty
:03:52. > :03:57.with Malawi restricts the government of Malawi to tax British firms
:03:58. > :04:03.operating there. Is this not a case of giving with one hand while you UK
:04:04. > :04:10.tax policies take away with the other. -- UK. I don't agree at all
:04:11. > :04:17.but most importantly, neither does the government of Malawi. They said
:04:18. > :04:21.that whilst the current agreement is admittedly aged, there is no
:04:22. > :04:24.evidence that the agreement has motivated some British investors to
:04:25. > :04:30.deprive the Malawi government of its revenue. On the contrary, the Malawi
:04:31. > :04:34.government and UK Government as well as nationals of the two countries
:04:35. > :04:37.have acted evidently in good faith to ensure neither party is exploited
:04:38. > :04:43.on the basis of the current agreement. Does the Secretary of
:04:44. > :04:48.State agree with me that the era of outdated and unscrutinised tax
:04:49. > :04:56.treaties that creates opportunities for multinational tax avoidance must
:04:57. > :05:01.come to an end? I think it is time that the international tax system
:05:02. > :05:05.works more effectively so that countries like Malawi can mobilise
:05:06. > :05:11.their own domestic resources. She will know that this particular
:05:12. > :05:13.treaty with up dated last in 1978. This government has taken the
:05:14. > :05:18.initiative to work with the government in Malawi to now update
:05:19. > :05:22.this relatively old treaty, and as I have set out to be House, the
:05:23. > :05:28.negotiations are going well and it sits alongside the rest of the work
:05:29. > :05:39.the government has done on beneficial ownership and increasing
:05:40. > :05:45.transparency in tax. The increase is to the sum of human misery,
:05:46. > :05:49.undermines any prospect of a peace process and is contrary to
:05:50. > :05:53.international law. I left the Israeli government in no doubt about
:05:54. > :05:58.the strength of our disapproval, and our embassy continues to do so. I
:05:59. > :06:04.thank the Minister for his response. The latest figures from the UN since
:06:05. > :06:09.earlier this month show there have been 400 demolitions since the start
:06:10. > :06:12.of the year, four times that of the rate of last year. The wave of
:06:13. > :06:16.demonstrations is depriving Palestinians of their homes,
:06:17. > :06:25.livelihoods and European taxpayer funded organisations from providing
:06:26. > :06:26.essential Manitou in support. If the British government has already made
:06:27. > :06:31.representations went demolitions have trouble, what more effective
:06:32. > :06:37.sanction will the Minister oppose now that demolitions have
:06:38. > :06:41.quadrupled? The honourable lady is right, the rate of increase is
:06:42. > :06:50.faster than any time since calculations began to be made. It is
:06:51. > :06:52.essential that the occupied Territories are governed in
:06:53. > :06:57.accordance with the fourth Geneva protocol. We will continue to make
:06:58. > :07:03.these representations to the government. I know she wants to push
:07:04. > :07:12.me further and I entirely understand the strength of her frustration and
:07:13. > :07:16.anger, but it is better than war. Will the Minister join me in
:07:17. > :07:23.condemning the incitement to violence or glorification of
:07:24. > :07:27.violence on either side? Absolutely. We are wholly opposed to incitement
:07:28. > :07:31.and when instances of incitement are brought to my attention, I goes
:07:32. > :07:37.straight to the telephone to raise with the chief executives of those
:07:38. > :07:40.organisations and make absolutely clear our fundamental disapproval
:07:41. > :07:48.and our requirement that things are put right. Prospect of a two state
:07:49. > :07:53.solution are disappearing and it is right we recognise Israel's right to
:07:54. > :07:58.self defence but isn't it time we also recognise Palestine as a
:07:59. > :08:04.sovereign state? We can only recognise Palestine once. It is
:08:05. > :08:09.essential therefore that we do so at a moment when we will have maximum
:08:10. > :08:17.impact on any peace process. That is a fine judgment. What recent checks
:08:18. > :08:25.have the government is made in relation to support offered in the
:08:26. > :08:33.West Bank to monies which end up in the pockets of terrorist supporting
:08:34. > :08:36.groups on the West Bank? Absolutely none of UK British aid, multilateral
:08:37. > :08:46.or bilateral, ends up in the hands of terrorists. The reason is
:08:47. > :08:52.high-level meeting on modernisation was able to agree the first changes
:08:53. > :08:55.in the definition of 40 years and reflect the changing nation in
:08:56. > :08:59.delivery, we do not expect a significant shift in the dispersal
:09:00. > :09:07.of UK aid because the changes are aligned carefully. Given the changes
:09:08. > :09:14.in definition and the increasing proportion of UK aid spent by
:09:15. > :09:22.Department, how will she ensure UK aid continues to help the poorest in
:09:23. > :09:27.the world? The modernisation of the definition had to be put under
:09:28. > :09:33.consensus by a number of countries involved and in addition the primary
:09:34. > :09:36.purpose that underpins economic development and improving the
:09:37. > :09:41.welfare of the recipient country remains in place. This was about
:09:42. > :09:47.making sure the definition could modernise to reflect how aid is
:09:48. > :09:52.carried out today. Given that so much poverty and misery is caused by
:09:53. > :09:56.conflict, isn't it about time that the OECD definition included
:09:57. > :10:10.peacekeeping and anti-terrorist activity at the very least? I agree.
:10:11. > :10:15.The goals agreed last September had a goal about the need to improve
:10:16. > :10:20.these but also improve security, and it is nonsensical to work so hard on
:10:21. > :10:23.tackling sexual violence in conflict and not being able to use RA
:10:24. > :10:32.programmes to work with the military to prevent that. -- are aid
:10:33. > :10:35.programmes. Given the changes to the definition of overseas subelements
:10:36. > :10:38.systems and given that there are 37 million people living worldwide with
:10:39. > :10:44.HIV and AIDS, 2 million new infections each year, can she tell
:10:45. > :10:50.the House, whether her department's spending on this will be rising or
:10:51. > :10:54.falling? We are planning to set out the results of our bilateral aid
:10:55. > :10:59.review over the coming weeks, but I can assure him that our support for
:11:00. > :11:04.multilateral systems like the global fund who do so much work on tackling
:11:05. > :11:09.AIDS will continue. He will be aware that it also affects adolescent
:11:10. > :11:15.girls in a growing proportion so it is important that we stay the course
:11:16. > :11:21.on this. It is great to see the bench is so packed. The more money
:11:22. > :11:27.that the UK spends, the more pressure there will be to deliver on
:11:28. > :11:35.existing permit. What impact will it have on staffing numbers at
:11:36. > :11:40.Abercrombie house? We will set out our bilateral aid review result is
:11:41. > :11:44.shortly, but I should say to the House that the point of the new aid
:11:45. > :11:48.strategy is to see across government approach and drive the relevant in
:11:49. > :11:53.the countries who work in, but I did not give is right that this work was
:11:54. > :11:56.carried out on its own, and it is important to get other departments
:11:57. > :12:10.to work alongside us in tackling extreme poverty.
:12:11. > :12:16.The global fund is a fantastic success story. Every pound it says
:12:17. > :12:24.is a pound I can put to better use in saving lives. It negotiated a 38%
:12:25. > :12:28.reduction in the price of insecticide treated bed nets since
:12:29. > :12:36.2013 and is predicted to save $93 million over two years, equivalent
:12:37. > :12:40.to 40 million additional nets. Will the minister join me in
:12:41. > :12:45.congratulating a school in my constituency for becoming the first
:12:46. > :12:49.in Wales to be awarded the Welsh primary geography quality Mark Gold,
:12:50. > :12:53.thanks in part to the DFID macro funded global learning programme?
:12:54. > :12:57.Will he agree with me that every child growing up in the UK should
:12:58. > :13:01.have the chance to learn about the world around them, the facts of
:13:02. > :13:05.poverty and under development and about the potential to build a freer
:13:06. > :13:09.and more prosperous world? I strongly agree with my honourable
:13:10. > :13:13.friend and I would like to, through him, congratulate the school in his
:13:14. > :13:17.constituency and the 4500 schools in the country that participate in the
:13:18. > :13:23.global learning programme, which we are proud to support with ?21
:13:24. > :13:27.million of funding, because we believe in the importance of
:13:28. > :13:33.development education to support school improvement. Last week, I had
:13:34. > :13:37.the pleasure of meeting with student aid activists who raised the access
:13:38. > :13:42.of access to medicine. Can the minister set out the priorities for
:13:43. > :13:46.the world health assembly -- world health assembly and what the
:13:47. > :13:52.government will do to tackle that issue? He is right to point to the
:13:53. > :13:58.success of the global fund in making it easier to access medicines. It is
:13:59. > :14:03.important to note that since 2002, the global fund has helped reduce
:14:04. > :14:07.deaths from the big three diseases by 40%, a staggering achievement.
:14:08. > :14:11.But there are still too many people dying unnecessarily from these
:14:12. > :14:15.diseases, which is why we look forward to a successful
:14:16. > :14:20.replenishment of that fund. The all-party group on malaria is
:14:21. > :14:25.concerned about resistance to antimalarial drugs in Southeast
:14:26. > :14:31.Asia. The Global Fund is doing a lot of work on this. Could the minister
:14:32. > :14:38.update the House on the progress? I congratulate my honourable friend
:14:39. > :14:42.for his tireless work in this area. I was with the senior team at the
:14:43. > :14:46.global fund the other day in Geneva to discuss it. I have no doubt about
:14:47. > :14:49.their commitment in the face of this challenge. I hope he takes pride in
:14:50. > :14:55.the fact that the British government continues to lead in this area, with
:14:56. > :14:58.the recent refresh of the commitment to spend ?500 million a year in the
:14:59. > :15:08.battle against malaria in all its forms. TB is the world's leading
:15:09. > :15:13.infectious killer. The Global Fund provides over three quarters of
:15:14. > :15:20.international finance to fight the epidemic. As we approach world TB
:15:21. > :15:26.Day on the 24th of March, will be minister: all governments around the
:15:27. > :15:33.world -- Will the minister call on all governments around the world to
:15:34. > :15:38.ensure that the target of 113 billion US dollars is met as a
:15:39. > :15:43.minimum? I thank the honourable gentleman for showing a spotlight on
:15:44. > :15:48.a huge killer where we are not making enough progress. We are proud
:15:49. > :15:53.that the UK is the third-largest donor to the fund that provides 70%
:15:54. > :15:59.of the funding around the world to combat this disease. It is critical
:16:00. > :16:02.that the replenishment of that fund is a success, and that other
:16:03. > :16:10.countries step up to the mark so that we can bear down on this
:16:11. > :16:15.unacceptable level of death. Mr Speaker, our response to the Syria
:16:16. > :16:23.crisis is a commitment of over ?2.3 billion with an additional 79.5
:16:24. > :16:32.million to Iraq. All our aid is distributed according to need,
:16:33. > :16:36.irrespective of creed or ethnicity. Daesh is systematically targeting
:16:37. > :16:40.Yazidi children, forcing little girls into sexual slavery and
:16:41. > :16:45.constricting young boys as child soldiers, and yet there are reports
:16:46. > :16:48.that that support is not reaching some of the Yazidi refugee camps
:16:49. > :16:53.near the Syrian border. What steps is the department taking to help
:16:54. > :16:57.ensure that children rescued from Daesh receive the support they need
:16:58. > :17:04.and to enjoy the support is reaching survivors in those camps? The first
:17:05. > :17:08.thing is that we have gone to war with Daesh, and that is a
:17:09. > :17:14.significant bunch of Bute. Equally, we are supporting the UNHCR and a
:17:15. > :17:24.number of organisations, principally funded through the Iraqi national
:17:25. > :17:30.action plan and the Iraqi pool fund, to which we are the largest
:17:31. > :17:35.contributor. Some of us met a delegation of Yazudis yesterday, who
:17:36. > :17:40.explained that there are almost 2000 women still held captive. With the
:17:41. > :17:43.minister be willing to meet this delegation and here are the
:17:44. > :17:49.difficulty they have in reaching help? I have met a number of Yazudi
:17:50. > :17:53.delegations and a number of representatives of other religions.
:17:54. > :18:03.I would be delighted to meet my right honourable gentleman and her
:18:04. > :18:08.delegation. I don't think we had a Mansell from the minister. There are
:18:09. > :18:13.reports of thousands of Yazidi women being captured by Daesh and sold as
:18:14. > :18:17.slaves, many suffering serious sexual abuse. What measures are the
:18:18. > :18:27.UK Government taking to end this slave trade? We are fighting Daesh.
:18:28. > :18:31.We are providing large sums of money to organisations that are delivering
:18:32. > :18:37.aid directly to Yazidi women and children. I know it is frustrating.
:18:38. > :18:44.Terrible things happen, but she can't always blame ministers. The
:18:45. > :18:52.women that have just been referred to by the previous question are
:18:53. > :18:55.asking what psychological services that can be held to these women who
:18:56. > :18:59.have been held as sex slaves. We have sent a number of experts to the
:19:00. > :19:06.region, specifically to deal with violence against women. The pooled
:19:07. > :19:09.fund to which we are the largest contributor provides maternal and
:19:10. > :19:12.child health care services. It provides protection for women and
:19:13. > :19:16.girls and it provides livelihoods for female heads of households. The
:19:17. > :19:21.Iraqi national action plan also delivers similar services, and we
:19:22. > :19:28.are dealing specifically with the needs of women in Kirkuk and the
:19:29. > :19:37.Northern areas through the human rights and democracy fund. Would the
:19:38. > :19:46.minister described what is happening to the Yazidis as genocide? I
:19:47. > :19:55.believe the decision as to what constitutes genocide is properly a
:19:56. > :20:01.judicial one, and International Criminal Court's correspondent has
:20:02. > :20:05.decided that as Daesh is not a state party, it does not yet constitute
:20:06. > :20:14.genocide. Order. Topical questions, Mr Jim Cunningham. Number one, Mr
:20:15. > :20:17.Speaker. This morning, I arrived back from heading the UK delegation
:20:18. > :20:21.at the United Nations for the commission on the status of women. I
:20:22. > :20:27.also took part as a member in the first meeting of the
:20:28. > :20:29.Secretary-General's high-level panel on women's economic empowerment.
:20:30. > :20:35.Empowerment is the best poverty tackling and global economy boosting
:20:36. > :20:39.strategy out there. Yesterday, it marked the fifth anniversary of the
:20:40. > :20:43.devastating Syria conflict. Since day one, the UK has been at the
:20:44. > :20:47.forefront of the response, including hosting last month's conference. I
:20:48. > :20:51.understand the sense of anticipation, but I remind the House
:20:52. > :20:55.that we are discussing policy affecting some of the most
:20:56. > :20:57.vulnerable people on the planet. I think we owe them some respect. Mr
:20:58. > :21:13.Jim Cunningham. As the honourable gentleman will be
:21:14. > :21:16.aware, the UK has been at the forefront of ensuring that there is
:21:17. > :21:21.humanitarian support in Sri Lanka where necessary. He will also be
:21:22. > :21:26.aware of the role the Prime Minister played in tackling the issues faced
:21:27. > :21:30.by Tamil communities in a part of the country where there has been
:21:31. > :21:34.long-standing conflict. Under the new government, we hope to see is
:21:35. > :21:42.reliant on Ford to a more peaceful democratic future. How much UK aid
:21:43. > :21:52.is currently given to Turkey, and our ministers having discussions to
:21:53. > :21:58.increase that figure? So far, DFID's allocated a sum since 2012. The
:21:59. > :22:01.country is hosting 2 million Syrian refugees and we are helping them
:22:02. > :22:05.support them and other displaced people with education and skills
:22:06. > :22:10.training. In terms of looking ahead, we will also contribute our share of
:22:11. > :22:20.the 3 billion euro EU Turkey refugee facility. Imran Hussain. Efforts
:22:21. > :22:25.that will address education are welcomed on this side of the House.
:22:26. > :22:28.However, to make substantial progress on achieving a good
:22:29. > :22:32.standard of education for all children in developing countries, we
:22:33. > :22:41.must address the barrier of child labour. In June 2015, Unicef found
:22:42. > :22:45.that 13% of children aged five to 14 in developing countries are involved
:22:46. > :22:51.in child labour. So can the minister tell me what progress DFID is making
:22:52. > :22:56.to help developing countries tackle the use of child labour? He is right
:22:57. > :23:01.to raise the issue of barriers that keep children out of school. If it
:23:02. > :23:04.is working on many of them, not least FGM it and tackling child
:23:05. > :23:09.marriage. Many of the children he talks about our girls who do unpaid
:23:10. > :23:21.labour work at home and on family farms. Bangladesh is a significant
:23:22. > :23:24.recipient of UK aid, yet the human rights commission had grave concerns
:23:25. > :23:31.about the shrinking civil society is based there. What can ministers do
:23:32. > :23:34.to help address this? I can assure my honourable friend that both DFID
:23:35. > :23:38.and Foreign Office officials raised concerns about the space for civil
:23:39. > :23:45.society with almonds including the government of Bangladesh, together
:23:46. > :23:48.with other donors. It is important and NGOs funded by UK aid are also
:23:49. > :23:56.active in negotiating with governments to protect the space for
:23:57. > :24:02.civil society to operate. Over 150 charities have raised concerns about
:24:03. > :24:06.the supposed anti-lobbying clause attached to new government grants.
:24:07. > :24:11.Does the minister not recognise that advocacy is an intrinsic duty of
:24:12. > :24:16.charities to raise issues associated with poverty and ill health across
:24:17. > :24:22.the world? I don't think these changes prevent them from doing
:24:23. > :24:26.that. These charities are often advocating for the same things that
:24:27. > :24:32.the UK Government is. Only yesterday, I was at an event with
:24:33. > :24:41.the UN with charities combating child marriage. Senior Palestinian
:24:42. > :24:46.officials have condemned peace building initiatives between
:24:47. > :24:49.Israelis and Palestinians, with one condemning football matches between
:24:50. > :24:54.Israeli and Palestinian youths as normalisation of the Zionist enemy.
:24:55. > :24:57.What representations has my honourable friend made to the
:24:58. > :25:00.Palestinian Authority to condemn these moves, and what moves is she
:25:01. > :25:08.making to build peace between Israel and Palestine? As my right
:25:09. > :25:13.honourable friend set out earlier, we deplore incitement on both sides
:25:14. > :25:17.of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We monitor allegations of incitement
:25:18. > :25:28.closely and raise instances with both leaderships. Has the minister
:25:29. > :25:34.even any aid to any country in the European Union? He will be aware
:25:35. > :25:40.that we have played our role in supporting refugees who have fled
:25:41. > :25:45.the Syria conflict and now arrive in the European Union. It is right that
:25:46. > :25:47.we do that, but he is also right to allude that we should also look to
:25:48. > :26:02.those countries to provide the support that they can as well. Aid
:26:03. > :26:07.remains -- what can DFID ministers do to ensure that this remains a
:26:08. > :26:11.priority, to help women? He is right. We had stats that showed that
:26:12. > :26:15.an adolescent girl gets infected with HIV every two minutes. We put
:26:16. > :26:20.the empowerment of girls and women at the heart of our development
:26:21. > :26:27.agenda. We are the second largest provider of HIV care and we have
:26:28. > :26:30.pledged to the Global Fund. At the weekend, we saw pictures of a
:26:31. > :26:34.newborn Syrian baby being washed with just a bottle of water outside
:26:35. > :26:38.a crowded tent in the hidden mini refugee camp in Greece, where more
:26:39. > :26:42.than 14,000 people are trapped as a result of the ledges border closure.
:26:43. > :26:46.Will the government work with other European states to ensure there are
:26:47. > :26:54.safe and legal routes for refugees to come asylum?
:26:55. > :26:59.From an international development perspective, we are supporting
:27:00. > :27:07.people in those situations and playing our role in resettlement
:27:08. > :27:16.through our scheme. Questions to be Prime Minister.
:27:17. > :27:21.This morning I had meetings with colleagues and others and in
:27:22. > :27:32.addition to my duties in this House, I will have more meetings today.
:27:33. > :27:34.With unemployment falling by over 60% at over 5000 new
:27:35. > :27:40.apprenticeships, read it is doing well and I am holding my third to
:27:41. > :27:43.spare in a few weeks with 25 companies taking part. Will my right
:27:44. > :27:47.honourable friend agree that we have made a good start but we must not be
:27:48. > :27:56.complacent and we should continue to get good quality jobs. I very much
:27:57. > :27:58.agree with my honourable friend. If we look at the West