Speeches by Anderson.

“I am going to ask a couple more questions about Israel and Palestine. I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests. I visited in 2023 and 2024 as well. In the urgent question last week we talked about the E1, but let me first ask about the ICJ. When you came before the Committee in March, you were still co…”

“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…”

“I have joined other MPs in visiting the west bank and East Jerusalem. This mega-development, this zonal occupation, is huge in scale. It involves a massive city, a dual carriageway, universities and hospitals, and it is absolutely undermining the peace of the two nations. I ask the Minister: what more can be done at in…”

“To where?”

“As a Committee, we understand that there is the conflict in Gaza and the west bank, but there is also the contested area of the holy sites in Jerusalem. We are trying to understand both examples of what is happening now and also what you think should happen to the Status Quo. Is there a wider issue of destabilisation b…”

“I just want to declare my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, where it can be seen that I visited Israel and Palestine, including different parts of Jerusalem, in 2023 and 2024 with cross-party groups. I went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre both times. Can I ask about another example of the closu…”

“You are both nodding. Your Grace, is that correct?”

“Was it closed for 40 days of restrictions?”

“Q6. This morning, a mature street tree fell on my house. No one was hurt, but it is another reminder of the results of this extreme heat that we face. Today is the hottest June day ever on record. Extreme heat and flooding are becoming more normal, and the Government need to stay ahead of that in respect of our homes, …”

“I echo the Deputy Prime Minister’s praise for the Prime Minister’s success in restoring the UK’s standing in the world, including with the EU. My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister has welcomed the G7 commitment to accelerating humanitarian efforts for Gaza and ending violence on the west bank, and Putney resi…”

“I echo the tributes to Jo Cox, whom I worked with when she was at Oxfam. We miss her greatly. My constituents in Putney, Roehampton, Southfields and Wandsworth Town have been let down by Thames Water for years. The Tories lost a grip of the situation and cut back the Environment Agency. In 2025, Thames Water dumped sew…”

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend for celebrating such a great Labour achievement, led by a great Labour woman, Baroness Jennie Lee. Will he join me in congratulating the Open University and underlining its importance for people like me? I was looking after four children and was able to do a master’s at the Open Universi…”

“I join all hon. Members and the Secretary of State in paying tribute to the Royal Marines, as we are proud to host the Royal Marine reserves in my constituency. I welcome the Secretary of State to his place, and his assurance that we have not missed a beat in our support for Ukraine. I have been to Ukraine with many ho…”

“Lord Evans, I want to look at HALO Trust’s experience of programmes to reduce land mines. I have seen that for myself with MAG in Lebanon. We got close to reducing them, but then the funding was reduced. You will have seen it in Syria with HALO. Could you say a bit more about the risk when local networks and all that t…”

“Lord McConnell, on the balance between hard security, peacebuilding, conflict prevention and civil society funding, does the increased investment in hard security that is currently happening produce better national security outcomes over the medium to long term in your experience? How can we quantify that to judge whet…”

“On Sudan, do you know how much we fund programmes there? Has that stayed the same, gone up or gone down?”

“I was chair of an all-party parliamentary group for conflict prevention, the APPG on prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity, and I worked very closely with you, Dr Ferguson, on that. I have a couple of more quick-fire questions about the internal workings of the FCDO and where we are left now. In that all-p…”

“To be clear, Dr Ferguson, you are saying that you do not think that there is enough ministerial oversight into the restructuring?”

“If we do not have the data about that with current conflicts, we must have the data about it from previous conflicts where we can see an amount of funding. In hindsight, we have the luxury of being able to say—”

“Social media companies have been conducting a social experiment on our children for too long and parents have been left trying to bear the burden. I thank the Minister very much for many meetings over many months. Can he tell us the criteria for deciding which platforms are going to be deemed safe or unsafe when determ…”