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Written Question
Gaza: Health Services
Friday 16th February 2018

Asked by: Lord Steel of Aikwood (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, following the announcement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health that because of fuel shortages affecting hospitals and clinics “urgent action is needed to prevent collapse of Gaza’s health system”, they are planning to offer any assistance.

Answered by Lord Bates

We remain concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and continue to monitor it closely, including the effect electricity shortages are having on the health sector. The UK will continue to urge all the parties to prioritise progress towards reaching a durable solution for Gaza and to take the necessary practical steps to improve conditions, including restoring the availability of electricity as a matter of urgency. The UK is supporting approximately 1 million Gazans by addressing critical water, sanitation and hygiene needs through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and is a long-term supporter of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which provides basic services to 1.3 million people in Gaza, including basic health care.

Written Question
Land Mines: Bomb Disposal
Monday 25th January 2016

Asked by: Lord Steel of Aikwood (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which countries they include in their Global Mine Action Programme, and whether they will consider adding Angola to that list.

Answered by Earl of Courtown - Opposition Deputy Chief Whip (Lords)

The Global Mine Action Programme which runs from 2014 to 2017 funds mine action projects in Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Further work in Burma, Somalia, South Sudan and Zimbabwe is currently being procured. The countries were selected following an inclusive consultation which took into account factors such as other donor funding and where the impact would be the greatest. In addition, DFID took the decision to shift the UK’s mine action funding to more fragile and conflict affected countries and where DFID could align mine action work with other DFID country programmes to maximise the impact. All funds have already been allocated under this programme therefore there is no scope for Angola to be included. This year DFID will reconsider the list of countries for future mine action programmes.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"My Lords, I am proud of the fact that both the authors of the Bill, in the other place and here, are my constituency successors—Michael Moore in the House of Commons and my noble friend Lord Purvis in the Scottish Parliament. Perhaps there is something about the air in the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Malawi

"My Lords, the House should be very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McConnell, for initiating this short debate on a small, faraway country of which many people know little but which he and I know extremely well. I join him in congratulating the Scotland Malawi Partnership. I was on …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Oct 2014
Health: Ebola

"Will my noble friend be kind enough to have a word with the Home Secretary because there is a problem that doctors from west Africa working in this country who go to help in this crisis might run foul of the visa restrictions? It is very important that that sort …..."
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Written Question
CDC
Thursday 19th June 2014

Asked by: Lord Steel of Aikwood (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they consider investment by the Commonwealth Development Corporation in luxury construction projects is consistent with the Department for International Development's overall objectives in developing countries.

Answered by Baroness Northover

In 2013, CDC's 1,300 investee companies directly employed over a million people, and created more than 68,000 net new jobs.

Individual investments are fully decided by CDC and the Government has put in place strict rules which require commitments to deliver jobs, economic development and poverty alleviation in developing countries.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2011
Malawi

"My Lords, I appreciate the real difficulty that the Government have with the increasingly autocratic President of Malawi, but can the Minister give us any indication of whether relations are on the mend following the expulsion of our high commissioner?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2010
House of Lords Reform Bill [HL]

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That the Bill be read a second time...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2010
House of Lords Reform Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. The rules of the House require me to begin in that way, but it might be more accurate if I were to move that the Bill be now read for the umpteenth time. In fact, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2010
House of Lords Reform Bill [HL]

"The problem with what my noble friend proposes is that, if he reads the report of our noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral, he will see at the back that there is a memo from the Clerk of the Parliaments indicating that that cannot be done. It requires a statutory …..."
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