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Select Committee
Submissions on the Statement of changes in Immigration Rules (HC 590)

Scrutiny evidence Mar. 27 2024

Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: .............. ................................ ........... 10 Potential future litigation and MM Lebanon


Written Question
UNRWA: Finance
Wednesday 27th March 2024

Asked by: Steve McCabe (Labour - Birmingham, Selly Oak)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what proportion of UK aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is spent on (a) food, (b) medicines, (c) other essentials, (d) salaries and (e) other costs for (i) UNRWA personnel and (ii) other employees.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)

UK funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was disbursed before the allegations that UNRWA employees were involved in the appalling 7 October terror attack against Israel came to light. No more British funding is due this financial year and we are pausing any future funding of UNRWA.

We provided £19 million of unearmarked funding this financial year to UNRWA's programme budget. This enabled UNRWA to deliver education, health, relief and social services and protection to 5.9 million Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. The UK also provided £16 million to UNRWA's Flash Appeal in response to the Gaza Crisis, supporting UNRWA to deliver humanitarian assistance, food, shelter, and non-food items for refugees in Gaza.

Our decision to pause future funding to UNRWA has no impact on the UK's contribution to the humanitarian response.

Our commitment to trebling aid to Gaza still stands and we are supporting partners including the British Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Egyptian Red Crescent Society to respond to critical food, fuel, water, health, shelter and security needs in Gaza.


Select Committee
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, and Heritage Foundation

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Urban Coningham: Lebanon is the context I am best aware of, so I will start with that.


Select Committee
Middle East Program, CSIS, RUSI, Jonathan Wilks, and The University of Exeter

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Urban Coningham: Lebanon is the context I am best aware of, so I will start with that.


Westminster Hall
People Granted Asylum: Government Support - Tue 26 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) the journey to seek sanctuary.Ninety-nine per cent of people like you will be heading somewhere else—Lebanon - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Regulation/directive/order)
Social Security Directorate

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2024
Document: The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2024 (PDF)

Found: (i) was residing in Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, t he Golan Heights or Lebanon


Written Question
Middle East: Armed Conflict
Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with Qatar on ending hostilities in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)

We are calling for an immediate pause to get aid in and hostages out, then progress towards a sustainable, permanent ceasefire, without a return to destruction, fighting and loss of life. This remains the focus of all our diplomatic effort.

Vital elements for a lasting peace include:

• the release of all hostages;

• the formation of a new Palestinian Government for the West Bank and Gaza, accompanied by an international support package;

• removing Hamas's capacity to launch attacks against Israel;

• Hamas no longer being in charge of Gaza; and,

• a political horizon which provides a credible and irreversible pathway towards a two-state solution.

The Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister have reiterated these messages in their contacts with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli political leaders, as well as leaders in Qatar, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in recent weeks.

We remain in close contact with Qatari partners on all aspects of the conflict. The Foreign Secretary spoke to HE Dr. Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, Qatari Minister of state on 13 March in Cyprus to discuss advancing aid to Gaza, and also met with the HE Qatari Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on 7 March to discuss the conflict in Gaza. The Foreign secretary also met HE Sheikh Mohammed and the Qatari Minister of International Cooperation HE Lolwah Rashid Al-Khater during his visit to Doha on 25 January and announced the first UK-Qatar joint consignment of aid to Gaza.


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 20 2024

Source Page: Predicting intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: findings from a multi-wave study
Document: Predicting intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: findings from a multi-wave study (webpage)

Found: Predicting intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: findings from


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 20 2024

Source Page: Predictors and barriers to vaccination among older Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Document: Predictors and barriers to vaccination among older Syrian refugees in Lebanon (webpage)

Found: Predictors and barriers to vaccination among older Syrian refugees in Lebanon


Petitions
Ceasefire and the state of Palestine - Wed 20 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None senior Israeli political leaders, as well as with leaders in Qatar, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon - Speech Link