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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Jun 2016
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"Even in the United Kingdom, adverse childhood experience is a major cause of dysfunction in families. In conflict zones, it will of course be much worse, particularly where a family have suffered a bereavement. Will the Secretary of State look at a package to include mentoring, parenting, and child development, …..."
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Written Question
Developing Countries: Children
Wednesday 29th June 2016

Asked by: Graham Allen (Labour - Nottingham North)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what programmes her Department supports related to children and religious fundamentalism; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Justine Greening

If there is a face of poverty, it is often a young face, and young people are at the heart of DFID’s agenda. We combat poverty, and religious fundamentalism, by investing in young people and their future, which is why our focus on education is so important.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 May 2016
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"Q13. What assessment he has made of the effect on the performance of Government of the introduction of five-year fixed-term Parliaments; and if he will make a statement...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 May 2016
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"Will the Prime Minister ensure that his Government’s performance includes the long-overdue creation of a centre of evidence on sexual abuse of children—something that I first raised in Prime Minister’s questions with Margaret Thatcher in 1989? We can deal with the awful consequences of child sex abuse for victims and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Feb 2015
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"3. What steps she is taking to target humanitarian assistance at the poorest children in the developing world...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Feb 2015
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"Getting food and shelter to children is essential, but will the Minister consider the global investment that is necessary in the social and emotional rehabilitation of children? That will make them less traumatised by their experience; enable them to raise good families of their own and to rebuild their cultures; …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
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"T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
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"The Secretary of State will be aware that the refugee crisis in Syria, involving 10 million refugees, is probably the worst in our lifetime, yet this Government’s programme has taken in only 90 refugees in the past year. Will the Secretary of State look again at engaging with the United …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Mar 2012
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"T5. Will the Secretary of State commit not only to work on further food and shelter developments for the people who need them throughout the globe, but to look at the social and emotional development of the children and families of those suffering areas, and to learn from some of …..."
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