Written Question
Monday 8th December 2025
Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international partners on protecting women and girls in El Fasher, Sudan.
Answered by Chris Elmore
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
I refer the Hon Member to the statements on Sudan made by the Foreign Secretary on 18 November, and by the Minister of State for International Development and Africa in the House of Lords debate on 27 November. We will provide further updates to the House in due course, including on our efforts to protect women and girls throughout Sudan.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions
"Indifference to poverty, as we have just heard, marks out the political divisions of our time. The task of restructuring our economy to ensure that those who serve and work hard are not exploited by profiteers and the powerful is our mission. Today, it is clear which side Labour is …..."Rachael Maskell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions
"I like drilling into the data and getting to the facts. You can see a correlation between the rise in people claiming social security and the rise in waiting lists in the NHS—they map identically through all Parliaments, whether Tory or Labour. Will the right hon. Member look at the …..."Rachael Maskell - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations
"Of course. Journalists are the eyes of the world, and they open all our eyes to the suffering and the scale of what is happening. We need to ensure their safety and security, as well as the free access that my hon. Friend calls for.
I understand that 16,500 people …..."Rachael Maskell - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations
"I thank my hon. Friend. It is an obscenity that mothers cannot feed their infants and have only filthy, disease-ridden water to give to their children. Of course we have to use every lever we have to address that injustice—including sanctions on the Israeli Government. As we have already heard …..."Rachael Maskell - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations
"It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this afternoon, Ms McVey. I thank all the petitioners for their efforts, as well as my constituents who, as the hon. Member for Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber (Brendan O’Hara) also highlighted, have for decades been campaigning on this and …..."Rachael Maskell - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Nov 2025
UNESCO: 80th Anniversary
"It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Jonathan Davies) on securing the debate. The power of culture to maintain peace and promote diversity over the last 80 years demonstrates the opportunity to use soft power …..."Rachael Maskell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Gaza and Sudan
"I thank the Foreign Secretary for the focus she is putting on Sudan. We know from the horrific bloodshed in El Fasher that the RSF has got its sights, as we have heard, on Tawila and then on Khartoum itself. We have got to stop those atrocities from occurring. We …..."Rachael Maskell - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 14th October 2025
Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of UK Aid is entering Gaza.
Answered by Hamish Falconer
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK is doing all we can to alleviate suffering. All allocations of our Humanitarian Programme are available publicly on Development Tracker. We have published further information on Core Relief Items through the programmes annual review with the next to be published by November 2025. Quantifying how much UK-aid has entered into Gaza is difficult, due to the complex operating environment and limited real-time data, as well as Israel's restrictions on humanitarian workers and monitors. But despite Israel's restrictions on access we know UK Aid is having an impact - our funding to UK-Med has treated nearly 600,000 people in Gaza.
Written Question
Tuesday 7th October 2025
Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken to convene the talks to end the war in Sudan since the London Sudan Conference.
Answered by Chris Elmore
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Foreign Secretary's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) confirmed that the UK will continue to use its leadership at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to advocate for increased international efforts on Sudan, including pushing the warring parties to implement the humanitarian pause, the wider ceasefire and the political transition that the Sudanese people need.