Speeches by Mundell.

“Arjun, do you hold out any hope that the processes that Thierno and Camilla just spoke about could be simplified, streamlined or made more effective within a foreseeable period?”

“Is that your experience as well, Thierno?”

“Camilla, you answered the question I was going to ask you about institutional capacity, but one thing to draw out, which maybe has not come across as much in the evidence today as we discovered when we were in Nigeria, is the complex relationship between the federal Government, the governors and the individual states. …”

“Camilla, can I ask you about Nigeria’s capacity to meet the cost of its own humanitarian and development needs? Although there is great division in the country in wealth, it is a lower to middle-income country.”

“Just to clarify whether I am right in what I heard you say—this aligns with evidence that we heard when we were in Nigeria—it is the lack of food and the difficulties with farming conditions that drive a lot of people into the arms of the terrorist organisations.”

“Andrew, what is your assessment of the human and societal consequences if nutrition needs are not met?”

“You have touched on it already, but what impact do you feel the cuts in funding internationally have had?”

“The child nutrition fund is one of the most effective ways to enhance the impact and value for money of official development assistance spending by mobilising domestic resources, with philanthropic and private capital having the potential to multiply UK ODA contributions as much as sixfold. In 2023, the UK Government c…”

“Do you think that it is acknowledged by the Nigerian Government that that situation is happening within the country? When we visited, it was not necessarily as clear as you might want.”

“Just to be clear, you are saying that there were forces that did not want the facts to be put into the public domain.”

“Thank you; we all have to work with personalities.”

“Arjun, do you hold out any hope that the processes that Thierno and Camilla just spoke about could be simplified, streamlined or made more effective within a foreseeable period?”

“Is that your experience as well, Thierno?”

“Camilla, you answered the question I was going to ask you about institutional capacity, but one thing to draw out, which maybe has not come across as much in the evidence today as we discovered when we were in Nigeria, is the complex relationship between the federal Government, the governors and the individual states. …”

“You have touched on it already, but what impact do you feel the cuts in funding internationally have had?”

“Camilla, can I ask you about Nigeria’s capacity to meet the cost of its own humanitarian and development needs? Although there is great division in the country in wealth, it is a lower to middle-income country.”

“Just to clarify whether I am right in what I heard you say—this aligns with evidence that we heard when we were in Nigeria—it is the lack of food and the difficulties with farming conditions that drive a lot of people into the arms of the terrorist organisations.”

“Andrew, what is your assessment of the human and societal consequences if nutrition needs are not met?”

“Just to be clear, you are saying that there were forces that did not want the facts to be put into the public domain.”

“9. What recent progress the Future of TV Distribution stakeholder forum has made on its work.”