Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Oct 2019
Yemen
"In answering my hon. Friend the Member for North East Fife (Stephen Gethins), the Minister spoke about the need to investigate the shocking attacks on aid facilities in Yemen, yet Oxfam says that it has never so much as been interviewed about bombings of its water projects and water warehouses …..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 15 Jul 2019
Draft International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (General Capital Increase) Order 2019
Draft International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Selective Capital Increase) Order 2019
Draft International Finance Corporation (General Capital Increase) Order 2019
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. I thank the Minister for his very thorough and wide-ranging introduction to the instruments. Like the shadow Minister, I do not intend to divide the Committee and I support the broad thrust of the proposals. The Minister referred to …..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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Draft International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Selective Capital Increase) Order 2019
Draft International Finance Corporation (General Capital Increase) Order 2019
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Apr 2019
Libya
"As we have heard, many thousands of migrants have already suffered outrageous human rights abuses in Libya, including in appalling detention centres. Will the Government now argue at international level for an urgent rethink of the inhumane policy of facilitating the return to those very conditions of many of the …..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 19th November 2018
Asked by:
Stuart C McDonald (Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost was of (a) electricity and (b) natural gas used by (i) his Department and (ii) Wilton Park in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The quantity and cost of electricity and gas to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) UK estate and Wilton Park since April 2015 is as follows:
| FCO | Wilton Park |
| Usage | Cost | Usage | Cost |
Electricity | kWH | GBP | kWh | GBP |
2015/16 | 26,750,416 | £3,285,904 | 277,496 | £17,811 |
2016/17 | 24,776,275 | £3,309,304 | 15,660 | £14,269 |
2017/18 | 23,126,619 | £3,052,563 | 247,222 | £13,997 |
Gas | |
2015/16 | 682,365 | £24,060 | 276,274 | £11,170 |
2016/17 | 603,753 | £24,440 | 308,927 | £12,835 |
2017/18 | 738,219 | £26,742 | 313,945 | £11,378 |
Wilton Park electricity usage during 2016/17 was not accurately monitored due to a faulty meter. The fault was finally resolved by British Gas in July 2017. Costs for the period have been confirmed and reconciled
Written Question
Monday 19th November 2018
Asked by:
Stuart C McDonald (Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the quantity was of (a) electricity and (b) natural gas used by (i) his Department and (ii) Wilton Park in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The quantity and cost of electricity and gas to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) UK estate and Wilton Park since April 2015 is as follows:
| FCO | Wilton Park |
| Usage | Cost | Usage | Cost |
Electricity | kWH | GBP | kWh | GBP |
2015/16 | 26,750,416 | £3,285,904 | 277,496 | £17,811 |
2016/17 | 24,776,275 | £3,309,304 | 15,660 | £14,269 |
2017/18 | 23,126,619 | £3,052,563 | 247,222 | £13,997 |
Gas | |
2015/16 | 682,365 | £24,060 | 276,274 | £11,170 |
2016/17 | 603,753 | £24,440 | 308,927 | £12,835 |
2017/18 | 738,219 | £26,742 | 313,945 | £11,378 |
Wilton Park electricity usage during 2016/17 was not accurately monitored due to a faulty meter. The fault was finally resolved by British Gas in July 2017. Costs for the period have been confirmed and reconciled.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Detainee Mistreatment and Rendition
"Does the Minister agree that there are no longer any practical or legal hurdles preventing the Government from delivering their long-promised judge-led inquiry?..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Jan 2018
Refugees and Human Rights
"I welcome the choice of debate and the motion, and I particularly welcome the call for effective action to alleviate the refugee crisis. With 23 million refugees worldwide and more than 40 million displaced internally, this is indeed, as has been said, one of the toughest global challenges of our …..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Jan 2018
Refugees and Human Rights
"I agree, and I urge hon. Members to support the private Member’s Bill that has been introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil). I very much hope that it is passed. He has support from the Refugee Council, the UNHCR, Amnesty International, …..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Jan 2018
Refugees and Human Rights
"My hon. Friend makes a series of valuable points. In Scotland a degree of legal aid still is available to support these applications, which are not straightforward, as a recent report from the Red Cross made absolutely clear. Ensuring that those who need legal aid have access to it would …..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Jan 2018
Refugees and Human Rights
"My hon. Friend is quite right. I hope we see a busy House on that date.
In conclusion, I wish to make one further point. Sometimes in these debates we speak as if hosting refugees is necessarily a hardship for our country. It is important to put it on the …..."Stuart C McDonald - View Speech
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