Speeches by Harding.

“Foreign Secretary, you made the point that I was going to make: the public are watching, and they want the British Government to do something. I appreciate what has been done already, but they want you to do more. There are things you could do. You have sanctioned Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. You could sanction Katz; he has …”

“Since the conference?”

“Have you been able to speak to the UAE, Egypt and the Saudis on this particular issue?”

“Foreign Secretary, you talked about core funding going to organisations on the ground that are trying to help with the upholding of international humanitarian law. The UK gives money to the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, which Poland asked to look at the attacks on World Central Kitchen, but Britai…”

“Finally, Foreign Secretary, can you tell me about the conversations you have been having with other regional actors, since the conference, on driving the diplomacy forwards so that we can see an end to the war?”

“The humanitarian efforts and the emergency response rooms in Sudan have been very effective. Can you talk me through how the FCDO works to support them at the same time as multilateral agencies that are working in the field?”

“Do you believe that the trade agreement with the GCC should have a human rights chapter attached to it? If so, where is the human rights chapter in trade agreements driven from? Is that from the Department for Business and Trade or the FCDO?”

“Do the reports trouble you? At the moment, the Government are negotiating a trade agreement—”

“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…”

“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 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 …”

“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…”

“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?”

“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?”