"It is a real pleasure to serve under you as Chair, Sir Gary. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Rosie Duffield) for securing the debate and opening it so brilliantly. I thank all other right hon. and hon. Members for their contributions; it has been …..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"My right hon. Friend has known me long enough to know that I agree entirely with what he just said. As my hon. Friends the Members for Canterbury, for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes), and for Edmonton (Kate Osamor), have highlighted, there have been many credible reports of repeated …..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"To my obviously amateur ear, that did not sound like an awful lot of aid for the number of people in need of support. Does the Minister think it is enough?..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"I also welcome the Minister to his post. Across east Africa, somebody is dying of hunger every 36 seconds. One hundred people will die in the time that Ministers are at the Dispatch Box. At COP, countries such as ours are urged to cover the cost of adapting to global …..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"It is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. I thank the hon. Member for Hendon (Dr Offord) for securing this debate, as well as all those who have spoken today.
"This policy will do nothing to stop the boats. The Minister has spent the last few days talking up the human rights record of the Rwandan Government, yet the previous Minister expressed concerns around “civil and political rights” in Rwanda. In 2018, 12 refugees were shot dead during protests about …..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"It is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Murray. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, Southall (Mr Sharma) for securing the debate and for his excellent speech. May I say what a pleasure it is to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), …..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"I have listened very carefully and I am not as dismayed as I thought I might be. Will the Minister let me know when she might be in a position to give us details on that spend? As she will appreciate, there is real anxiety out there...." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"Some 9.4 million people are going hungry in northern Ethiopia, airstrikes are killing civilians and the blockade is being used as a political weapon. I am glad that the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford), met Abiy Ahmed last week. …..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray, and it is really good to see you looking so well.
I, too, thank the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Theresa Villiers) for introducing this debate and for her passion about the subject. I also thank all my …..." Baroness Brown of Silvertown - View Speech