Speeches by Anderson.

“Does the shadow Minister know that since Wandsworth council became Conservative, the only decisions it has made have been to cancel all of the housing development on one estate and partially cancel it on another? We are now wondering what will happen with the Alton estate. Does he support building more houses and keepi…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Luke Murphy) for securing this debate and giving me a chance to talk about the Alton estate in Roehampton in my constituency. It is also a pleasure to follow on from the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shanno…”

“I have a couple of questions on Sudan. They also illustrate the point that we were making earlier about cuts within the FCDO, and in particular the cuts to the atrocity prevention team, which is needed now more than ever. You know the situation in Sudan, where about 25 million people are suffering severe hunger. The ci…”

“Would you say the focus has gone from overall conflict resolution looking around the world to the four countries—Ukraine, Sudan, Palestine and Lebanon—that are talked about? When you have to make decisions, is the focus now on those four countries at the expense of more global conflict resolution? Is focus on areas tha…”

“My constituents are cheering on the work that the Government have done by getting a grip of this situation after the Environment Agency was left to mark its own homework, and the self-monitoring and regulation framework failed. Will the Minister say more about the dedicated supervisory teams in the White Paper, which w…”

“Those lines are in the list I have for future ISF spending reviews. We will wait to see that in the report. My second question is about the G20. What will your priority areas be? Will they include debt cancellation, taking forward the work of the global partnerships conference, and a route back to 0.7%, perhaps over 10…”

“Specifically on El Obeid in North Kordofan, which is of particular concern at the moment, the humanitarian conditions are dire. Even if the RSF waits until after the rainy season to launch an attack on that besieged city, the current aid blockages are extremely concerning. Have the Government considered working with Tu…”

“In terms of actually funding projects, we will see a person there instead of a whole potential project on the ground, won’t we?”

“I am going to ask about conflict resolution and peacebuilding, the changes in the FCDO, and where that leaves us at a time when the world is more dangerous, as you know more than most because you go to many of those areas. It seems from the outside as though defence capability is being ratcheted up at the same time as …”

“I do not think they have published them yet.”

“But you would have liked to by now. Thank you.”

“If British companies do not seek to join the tender—if the signals work—it will still go ahead, because the Israeli Government will find other companies to do that. What do you think is the realistic prospect of the E1 project being stopped, and of the whole annexation of the west bank being stopped?”

“Have you received legal advice on it, and are you considering the options?”

“One more question from me. We heard last week from the leaders of the Episcopalian and the Greek Orthodox Churches. Two archbishops came to speak to the Committee about the really unreasonable restrictions on worshipper access to the holy places in Jerusalem; about widespread, persistent intimidation; about Christian c…”

“With regular visits to Parliament as well. There is the E1 plan—the increased annexation of the west bank. Two thirds of Gaza is occupied by Israeli forces, as you will know. When you appeared before this Committee in March last year, you talked about two scenarios: one was annexation of the west bank and East Jerusale…”

“Okay. Given what is happening in the west bank and East Jerusalem, and the annexation—”

“Has the international legal system failed in this regard? Has the UN failed? Is this whole situation a result of failure? Minister, you must have looked many times at what further steps could now be taken. Is something missing in the international system? Is there something else that should be there?”

“Could another roll of the dice be to have a middle east envoy from the UK? We have had envoys on different things in the past; recently, envoys on different countries, areas and thematic aspects have been put in place. Envoys do not always work, but they have worked in other conflicts in the past. Have you had briefing…”

“At Easter, yes, and in Bethlehem.”

“So it has not been cut as much. The UK Government are taking over the G20 at the end of the year. Will peace in the middle east and the work we have been discussing during this session feature among the areas of focus for the chairship of the G20?”