Speeches by Naish.

“This question may be more for Cynthia. Thinking about displaced people, because obviously millions of people have been displaced within Nigeria as well, what work has been done to understand the impact of that and its potential to further undermine stability within the region?”

“I will press on and see where we get to. I will not go into detail about many key issues facing park and mobile home owners—I am sure colleagues will touch on them, as they have already started to—but I want to mention, up front, some key items that are common across all sites. The first is maintenance and site standar…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered Government support for park home owners. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Alec. I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for granting this debate. I want to acknowledge the turnout, which is pretty impressive, given that we were voting so late la…”

“I will quickly go to two areas: disability and gender mainstreaming. That decision has been taken, and I think that is happening in Nigeria. To what extent are you concerned that funding reductions will impact those two areas—gender and disability?”

“Are you saying, Minister, that we will not know the baseline from which to do a true equalities impact assessment across both local and central programming, because of the way work has historically been commissioned?”

“I will quickly go to two areas: disability and gender mainstreaming. That decision has been taken, and I think that is happening in Nigeria. To what extent are you concerned that funding reductions will impact those two areas—gender and disability?”

“Are you saying, Minister, that we will not know the baseline from which to do a true equalities impact assessment across both local and central programming, because of the way work has historically been commissioned?”

“Thank you, Sir Alec. I will press on, but the hon. Member is absolutely right and has touched on some issues that I will talk about. I congratulate him on ensuring his residents got their money back. Most concerning, and often alluded to by MPs, is the imbalance of power. A park home resident may own the home they live…”

“I guess that is all about stopping the instability or preventing further instability, but to what extent has there been an assessment of the risks of that displacement and what that might mean over the coming years? Has that piece of work been done, or is it implicit in the fact that so many people have been displaced?”

“I guess that is all about stopping the instability or preventing further instability, but to what extent has there been an assessment of the risks of that displacement and what that might mean over the coming years? Has that piece of work been done, or is it implicit in the fact that so many people have been displaced?”

“From October 2024 onwards, I did my best to engage fully and properly with the assisted dying debate that took place across England and Wales. I met campaigners on both sides of the debate in my constituency, and did my best to explain my conclusions to constituents at all times. Today I am presenting a petition signed…”

“Going back to multilaterals, Baroness Chapman, you said earlier that we are multilateralists. That is a fair position to take but can you explain to us the thinking behind which items were prioritised within the range of multilateral choices that you had and which were not?”

“One of the things that the Conservative Government did that I think undermined support among the public was cutting support for development education in schools. Have you thought about this, and is there any scope to work with the DfE to try to restart some of that work? It might not show up immediately in the polls, I…”

“—and I am not saying there should be, but it must be recognised by the FCDO that there are some inherent risks in the way that this has been sequenced over the last 12 months.”

“The original question, Foreign Secretary, was about the risk register. Just clarify that the FCDO is aware of the risks of the sequencing of all these events. There is no perfect solution—”

“This is to reinforce some of the points that David Mundell is making. As Government, as an example in this country, we have said to local councils that we are moving them to multi-year settlements to give them a level of certainty. I accept at the total level the Global Fund does have that certainty but having only £19…”

“You have made your decisions, though. A lot of the big decisions have been made already.”

“The overseas network review is still not finished, is it?”

“There is an inherent risk here. These cuts have been known about since February last year. I believe we were flying up to Scotland to see the FCDO on the day that they were announced. We are 12 months into that process. You are saying that 12 months on, staff right now are going through the process of telling you what …”

“We know now pretty much where the UK cuts are going to be. Given your knowledge of what other partners are doing globally, do you see any gaps in the international picture where you are starting to have greater concerns about than others, where other partners maybe are not playing as deep a role as you were expecting?”