Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Yasmin Qureshi and Priti Patel

Wednesday 14th September 2016 Commons Chamber

[Priti Patel]

I thank the hon. Lady for her welcome and look forward to working with her on many such global challenges and crises. She is right to highlight the extent of humanitarian suffering in Aleppo we are comprehending. I was in Brussels on Monday meeting my development counterparts, and I speak on a near-daily basis to my opposite numbers around the world. The focus for us is the humanitarian crisis, and on getting aid into the besieged areas, and to the people who desperately need aid but who have not been receiving it. I will continue the work we are undertaking and continue to update the House.

[Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East) (Lab)]

3. What support her Department has provided to victims of the earthquake in Dolakha, Nepal of May 2015.