Formal Minutes May. 31 2024
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)Found: transport (£73.50), food (£147.65), and visa (£64.40), total value £2,710.50 Destination of visit: Somaliland
Formal Minutes May. 31 2024
Committee: Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas TerritoriesFound: transport (£73.50), food (£147.65), and visa (£64.40), total value £2,710.50 Destination of visit: Somaliland
Asked by: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support (1) climate-resilient agricultural practices, and (2) sustainable livelihoods, in Somalia to enhance food production and improve resilience to climate change.
Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK is taking steps to promote resilience to climate change in Somalia. Last year, the Prime Minister announced up to £100 million to build resilience to climate shocks and strengthen food security for the most vulnerable including support for climate adaptive agricultural practices. We are also building the resilience of marginalised households and businesses in the agricultural and financial sectors in Somalia. In addition we have supported Somalia's membership of the Taskforce on Access to Climate Finance at COP28 as an anchor donor. UK aid is making a difference. Through the Somaliland Development Fund we are supporting sustainable land management and agricultural production.
Asked by: Baroness Mobarik (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any information on the number of UK merchant ships that docked at (1) Gazimağusa, and (2) Berbera, seaports in each year since 2010; and why their policies towards both unrecognised countries differ in terms of their international investment.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
No UK flagged vessels have docked at Famagusta (Gazimagusa) since 2018. One vessel docked five times at Berbera over the same period. We do not hold data before 2018. The situations in the north of Cyprus and Somaliland are different and require different approaches. The UK supports measures to promote economic development in both, whilst respecting UN Security Council Resolutions that limit links between the UK and the north of Cyprus.
Mentions:
1: Ian Mearns (Lab - Gateshead) provisionally offered debates for that day on hormone pregnancy tests and the recognition of the Republic of Somaliland - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: Climate change and securityFound: The Nexus through a Feminist Lens, highlights how women leaders from Lebanon, Haiti, Myanmar and Somaliland
Oral Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Proposals for backbench debatesFound: A number of colleagues have been to Somaliland recently.
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: We express our concern regarding the Memorandum of Understanding between Ethiopia and the Somaliland
Found: Prime Minister Abiy ’s agreement with the self-declared Republic of Somaliland , whose independence