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Division Vote (Lords)
19 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Bates (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 135 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 148 Noes - 156
Division Vote (Lords)
19 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Bates (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 135 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 159 Noes - 153
Division Vote (Lords)
14 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Bates (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 185 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 278 Noes - 176
Division Vote (Lords)
14 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Bates (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 178 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 213 Noes - 211
Division Vote (Lords)
14 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Bates (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 42 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 59 Noes - 127
Scheduled Event - Tuesday 13th January - Add to calendar
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Lords - Short debate - Main Chamber
Humanitarian impacts of reductions in Official Development Assistance (Dinner break business)
MP: Lord Bates
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Official Development Assistance

"My Lords, I shall never forget it. It was late morning on 25 June 2017. I was then the Minister for International Development. We were visiting the Al-Sabbah Children’s Hospital on the outskirts of Juba in South Sudan. It is the only functional paediatric hospital in a country five times …..."
Lord Bates - View Speech

View all Lord Bates (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Official Development Assistance
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Official Development Assistance

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of any humanitarian impacts of actual and planned reductions in Official Development Assistance...."
Lord Bates - View Speech

View all Lord Bates (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Official Development Assistance
Division Vote (Lords)
12 Jan 2026 - Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Bates (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 171 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 201 Noes - 169
Written Question
Sudan: Humanitarian Aid
Friday 9th January 2026

Asked by: Lord Bates (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much they contributed in humanitarian assistance to Sudan in (1) 2023, (2) 2024, and (3) 2025; and how much they plan to contribute to Sudan in 2026.

Answered by Baroness Chapman of Darlington - Minister of State (Development)

Data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend for 2023 and 2024 is published in Statistics on International Development (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-oda-spend-2024), including breakdowns by country, sector, and type of aid.

Table 1 below shows UK ODA funding provided to Sudan through bilateral humanitarian assistance in 2023 and 2024. Table 2 shows ODA spent in the UK in the same years. Figures for 2025 and 2026 will be published in the usual way in due course.

Table 1. Humanitarian ODA to Sudan, 2023 and 2024

2023

£ million

2024

£ million

Humanitarian ODA to Sudan

35.8

121.3

Source: Statistics on International Development: Final UK ODA spend 2024

Table 2. ODA Spent in the UK, 2023 and 2024

2023

% of total UK ODA

2024

% of total UK ODA

In-donor Expenditure [Note 1]

33.3%

26.0%

Note 1. In-donor expenditure includes an estimate of the ODA-eligible part of FCDO's and other departments' administration costs, refugees living in the UK spend, raising development awareness and costs of UK experts and UK scholarships.

Source: Statistics on International Development: Final UK ODA spend 2024.