Speeches by Taylor.

“On behalf of the all-party parliamentary group on Japan, may I say arigato gozaimasu to the Prime Minister for his visit? I hope that he had a sugoi time. I think that all of us in the House are proud of the global combat air programme, which holds great opportunities not only for global, regional and UK security but f…”

“I completely agree with you that NGOs have massively dropped the ball on talking to the public about development. As somebody who worked and had these battles at the time, we thought that they thought we had won. We had got 0.7%, and that was it. We could move on. I was making the case very strongly that, no, we had to…”

“On the innovative finance side of it, is there anything more you can say on that point? It is okay if you cannot. I raised the question in the House at FCDO questions earlier, and I am very keen to see that the Treasury is working with you on this because we accept—or at least I do—the fiscal rules that the Chancellor …”

“Development and education specifically.”

“I knew it was May, yes.”

“I hate to disagree with the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir Andrew Mitchell), who I respect greatly, but in an era when we have less money I wonder whether we should focus on reaching the poorest people the most. There are other models, including the International Finance Facility for Education and the Inte…”

“I wanted to ask about plans for a conference this year, and whether you could elaborate on your current plans. My specific interest, which will not surprise you, is whether you are any further along in discussions around development finance and using it as an opportunity to leverage more money, working with the private…”

“The Trump Administration initially indicated that they would protect protesters when they came out, which they have done in droves, but, as many Members have indicated, thousands upon thousands of them have now been killed. We worry about outside interference, but if we listen to a lot of the protesters, they are actua…”

“I shall try to follow your advice, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let me begin by paying tribute to what Members have said already, and also to the fact that a number of Members in all parties have contributed in many different ways in trying to stand up for the Ukrainian people, not only in speeches in the House but through th…”

“I think we know who Putin’s friends are, and that is a matter of public record. I completely agree, and if I had had time during my question on the Iran statement yesterday, I would have spoken about the role that Iran is playing in Ukraine. Shahed drones, which all of us who have been to Ukraine have had to cower from…”

“I hope that if that money is unlocked, we look at ways to compensate for the money that is going into Ukraine by freeing up money that might be able to go to other conflicts around the world, where we have sadly made some reductions due to the cut to the aid budget.”

“It is telling that, in the past few weeks, we have heard absolutely nothing from Your Party, the Greens, the Socialist Campaign Group or the “stop some wars” coalition. Where have been the marches in solidarity with the Iranian people? You cannot claim to be a progressive and to care about social justice if you do not …”

“Forgive me if this is a stupid question based on what you have just said, but are you saying therefore that any money saved from the reduction in hotel use by the Home Office will not, as things stand, automatically flow back into aid overseas?”

“Turning to the integrated security fund, the allocations are on the downward trend. I want to understand the rationale for that decision.”

“I am not laying it at your door. I think it is something we might want to pick up with the Treasury.”

“Because you brought up the issue of leveraging extra finance, I wondered what discussions you have had with the Treasury, since the decision to cut the aid budget was made, about looking at alternative forms of development finance. I hear what you are saying about putting money into the World Bank because of the money …”

“Even though the money is not allocated out of ODA spending, does it still have a development impact and focus within it? In some ways, if it does, that is great, because it is additional money that is not coming out of the aid budget. If it does not, the whole point of this is to have some integration between foreign p…”

“That is helpful. You may have already answered this, but when we last saw you in February, Nick, you said you were going to be doing a review of the ISF. Is that old news now? Has what you have just said taken over from that?”

“My question is really getting at what the mitigation for that is. What alternative options are you looking at, so that we do not lose the fund’s original intention?”

“Did it say yes to any of those?”