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Written Question
Overseas Aid
Thursday 13th July 2017

Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will ensure that spending on aid by all Government Departments conforms to the International Development Act 2002.

Answered by Rory Stewart

Government departments that spend Official Development Assistance (ODA) do so under the International Development Act 2002, or in accordance with other statutory powers where appropriate. It is the responsibility of individual departments to ensure that their ODA spend complies with the relevant statutory powers.

Written Question
Yemen: Famine
Wednesday 22nd March 2017

Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of the most recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Analysis report by the UN and its humanitarian partners on the humanitarian situation in Yemen; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Rory Stewart

The findings of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis highlight the need to respond urgently to the food security crisis and prevent loss of life. In February, the Secretary of State issued a call to the international community to step up their response to the risk of famine in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen. The UK has led by example, providing emergency humanitarian assistance to over 1 million people in both 2015 and 2016, and hosting a high level international event at the UN General Assembly to shine a spotlight on the forgotten crisis. In this financial year alone, we have provided lifesaving nutrition support to 889,000 women and children and food or food vouchers to 462,000 people so far. We are planning a significant contribution to Yemen in 2017/18.

Written Question
Yemen: Overseas Aid
Tuesday 21st March 2017

Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that British-funded aid is not blocked at ports in Yemen.

Answered by Rory Stewart

The UK continues to lobby all parties to the conflict to facilitate commercial and humanitarian access, and is supporting the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the UN Humanitarian Air Service to improve access for humanitarian agencies.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q2. Happy new year, Mr Speaker. Sir Ivan Rogers, in his resignation letter, said that people may have to deliver messages to the Government that Ministers may find disagreeable. So here is a message that the Prime Minister may find disagreeable: her lack of priority for the single market is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2015
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"Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 18 March 2015...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2015
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"The Chancellor said in his first Budget:

When we say that we are all in this together, we mean it.—[Official Report, 22 June 2010; Vol. 512, c. 167.]

When the Prime Minister and the Chancellor came up with such a vacuous soundbite, was it before they decided …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2013
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"Q13. Will the Prime Minister benefit personally from the millionaires’ tax cut?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
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"3. How her Department plans to reach the Government’s target of spending 0.7% of gross national income on development aid by 2015...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
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"The coalition agreement states that the Government will enshrine in legislation the 0.7% commitment. Can the Minister tell us when the Government will work towards that commitment or is it just another broken promise?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 15 Sep 2011
Food Security and Famine Prevention (Africa)

"I congratulate the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) on securing this debate on such an important topic.

There is no doubt that even in difficult financial times, when the disposable incomes of people in this country …..."
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