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Thursday 18th June
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Commons -
Motion - Main Chamber
Statutory Instruments Relating To The Draft African Development Bank (Fifteenth Replenishment Of The African Development Fund) Order 2020; The Draft African Development Bank (Further Payments To Capital Stock) Order 2020; And The Draft African Development Fund (Multilateral Debt ReliefInitiative) (Amendment) Order 2020
Department: Department for International Development MP: Anne-Marie TrevelyanScheduled Event -
Thursday 18th June
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Commons -
Motion - Main Chamber
Statutory Instruments Relating To The Draft International Development Association (Nineteenth Replenishment) Order 2020; And The DraftInternational Development Association (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) (Amendment) Order 2020
Department: Department for International Development MP: Anne-Marie TrevelyanSpeech in Written Statements - Mon 08 Jun 2020 Global Health Security Update
"The UK is leading the worldwide fightback against infectious diseases, including coronavirus.
That is why the Prime Minister hosted the global vaccine summit last week to raise funding for vaccinations that will save millions of lives in the poorest countries and protect the world from future outbreaks of infectious diseases.
"With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on the UK’s support for the global effort to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The world is now having to address the biggest threat that it has faced in decades: an invisible killer on a global scale. Here in the …..." Anne-Marie Trevelyan - View Speech
"I thank the hon. Lady for her questions. I will do my best to answer them all in turn.
On funding allocation, we have so far committed £276 million for resilience, with multinational organisations and UN appeals alongside the International Red Cross and the Unilever project. Some £380 million is …..." Anne-Marie Trevelyan - View Speech
"I thank my hon. Friend for that really important question. I do not think anyone would suggest that the WHO is a perfect organisation, but it is an extraordinary organisation, because it has the legitimacy of pretty much every country on the planet. It is a profoundly experienced and wise …..." Anne-Marie Trevelyan - View Speech
"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions. He and I are very aligned in terms of the wider implications and the secondary impacts that we risk seeing unless we can be really forward thinking in supporting the weakest and most vulnerable countries.
"I thank the hon. Lady for her question. DFID has, and has had, a very clear strategy, and we were working before the crisis hit on refreshing that and on thinking, over the next few years, how we want to direct the 0.7% that this country has committed to. That …..." Anne-Marie Trevelyan - View Speech
"My right hon. Friend is right that nutrition is critical to avoiding long-term negative impacts of covid-19 on child growth and development, so the UK remains committed to preventing and treating malnutrition as part of our commitment to ending the preventable deaths of mothers, newborns and children. We are working …..." Anne-Marie Trevelyan - View Speech
"The UN Secretary-General is right that this virus is a menace to the whole of humanity. The challenge that we all have—which is why it must be a global, international response—is to ensure that we all appreciate that sorting out our own domestic situations is only stage one of the …..." Anne-Marie Trevelyan - View Speech