Speeches by Harding.

“Foreign Secretary, of course I do not need to remind you that Sudan is suffering the worst humanitarian crisis since aid began, and there are war crimes being committed, it seems, on almost a daily basis. There has been one statement from you on Sudan in seven months; are the Government treating it as a priority?”

“Foreign Secretary, you say you are absolutely committed to development, and that the poorest people in the world should not be at the mercy of political decisions, yet your Government have cut the aid budget by 40%—much further than any other Government—to the lowest level for 50 years. Can you see how those two things…”

“The ongoing war in Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe and the biggest since aid began. I thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question, but I regret that in the past seven months there has been only one statement on Sudan from the Government. Local and community-led emergency response room…”

“I want to come back to the point you made, which is the partnership and reimagining aid in that event. The head of the Wellcome Charitable Foundation pointed out—I am sure you read the article in the FT—that aid cuts will have a bigger impact than the covid pandemic on health in the Global South. While I understand tha…”

“Strengthen surveillance systems, which you say will be replicated by a new fund, but how would that intersect also with the surveillance that is diminished as a result of the WHO cuts to funding? While I understand that there are preventative measures here, what about the surveillance systems that the Fleming Fund was …”

“I wanted to come back to your words about reimagining aid. You referenced the Wellcome Foundation’s article yesterday. Can you talk to me about not the low and middle-income countries but the very poorest countries, and how these cuts in international aid budget translate there?”

“Back to the Fleming Fund.”

“Will there be a situation where the UK would increase funding, obviously not to completely fill that gap but to go some way, with a coalition of other countries?”

“I want to come back to the point you made, which is the partnership and reimagining aid in that event. The head of the Wellcome Charitable Foundation pointed out—I am sure you read the article in the FT—that aid cuts will have a bigger impact than the covid pandemic on health in the Global South. While I understand tha…”

“I wanted to come back to your words about reimagining aid. You referenced the Wellcome Foundation’s article yesterday. Can you talk to me about not the low and middle-income countries but the very poorest countries, and how these cuts in international aid budget translate there?”

“Back to the Fleming Fund.”

“Strengthen surveillance systems, which you say will be replicated by a new fund, but how would that intersect also with the surveillance that is diminished as a result of the WHO cuts to funding? While I understand that there are preventative measures here, what about the surveillance systems that the Fleming Fund was …”

“Will there be a situation where the UK would increase funding, obviously not to completely fill that gap but to go some way, with a coalition of other countries?”

“I thank my fellow Surrey MP for his thoughts. Last year, nearly half of Surrey’s high needs block of £122 million was spent supporting SEND places at non-maintained independent schools. Placing those children in state-maintained school is often half the cost. Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that we need to put more m…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that we do not fix a financial problem by giving away a right? For many parents and families battling the system, an EHCP is the only protection that a child gets to a right to education.”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that it is very difficult to measure accountability in these schools? Where does accountability sit, and how do parents know that their children are achieving in those schools?”

“In Surrey, for example, 1,800 children with special educational needs are missing education because there is no provision. They are sliding into poor mental health as a result, and that needs to stop. Does my hon. Friend agree?”

“I thank the hon. Member for all her advocacy on the issue. She makes an important point, which was made previously: rare cancers are not rare for the victims and their families. That is why we need to bring such treatments into the NHS so that they are available for all, not just for those who set up GoFundMe pages tha…”

“I once more thank the hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur) for all he has done to bring the Bill forward. We, along with thousands of families throughout the UK, all owe him a huge debt. I am proud to have supported the Bill from the very beginning. I also pay tribute to the ongoing work of the hon. Member …”

“I was taken by what you said about geopolitics interrupting economics. The value of UK exports to markets such as Kyrgyzstan, which is believed to be an entry point for sanctioned goods into Russia, has increased by around 300%. Are UK sanctions really a threat to our adversaries, or are they just a mild annoyance?”