Speeches by Harding.

“Twenty years ago, Nelson Mandela stood in Trafalgar Square waging a war on poverty. As my hon. Friend will know, he was also the first chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which has inoculated more than 1 billion children and saved 18 million lives. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Labour Government must fulfil their…”

“If a donor country such as the UK is predominantly now giving to a multilateral fund the outcome therefore is removed slightly from their objectives because it is a multilateral spend. How do they then track a long-term outcome on the value for money scale to their own policy objectives?”

“The NHS and the UK reap the benefits of our work in global health. Gavi is one of the UK’s greatest success stories: it has inoculated 1 billion children worldwide, but it has also strengthened our health security, keeping us safe from diseases such as Mpox and Ebola. What leadership will the Secretary of State and his…”

“Abdou, I see you nodding. Is there anything you want to add to that?”

“Jennifer, this is a question for you. The FCDO has not performed a widescale review of multilateral aid since 2016 so what factors should be considered if a new review were to be commissioned?”

“This is a question for Jennifer. Can I ask you, given that a donor country will be removed from the outcome of a multilateral spend how does that align with their objectives regarding value for money?”

“That is brilliant, thank you. Jennifer, coming back to you, what is the impact of rigorous value for money assessments on delivery partners and local organisations on the ground?”

“I welcome the Minister’s statement on closer co-operation with the EU on defence and security, but on the day the Bank of England cut its growth forecast from 1.5% to 0.75%, does the Minister agree that the single biggest thing we could do to turbocharge our economy in the medium and longer-terms is to form a customs u…”

“President Trump’s proposals for the forced displacement of Gaza’s 2.2 million inhabitants would constitute a grave violation of international law, and threaten the fragile ceasefire and the return of the hostages. Will the Minister condemn them? The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination and to a state o…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank the hon. Member for Southgate and Wood Green (Bambos Charalambous) for bringing this important issue to the House, and I praise his work on raising awareness of it. For decades many low-income nations have struggled under the weight of unsustainable d…”

“Hello and welcome, Minister. Can I start off by asking you how your Government will differ from the last in their approach to achieving the second sustainable development goal on zero hunger?”

“Minister, do you have an update on UNRWA that you could share with us?”

“The cuts to UK aid in 2021 disproportionately impacted nutrition. Can you lay out how you are either going to return that to the level it was before or increase the proportion of ODA that is spent on nutrition?”

“Minister, previous commitments to global nutrition include ringfencing interventions such as MMS and ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat children and for maternal health. Would you look at bringing back specific ringfenced funding commitments to nutrition programmes?”

“Minister, many of us have noted with concern what is going on in America in the moment with USAID. I would be interested to know what your response is to that. What impact will it have on the UK funding programme and our partnership with USAID? Can you reassure us that we will not be following but will hold steadfast i…”

“My teachers in Esher and Walton have greeted today’s announcement with a degree of cynicism, which is to be expected after feeling ignored for the last 10 years. One wrote to me saying, “Same system, different name.” Another said, “Same old thing, just different words.” Will the Minister reassure them that this is not …”

“I note that the Minister did not mention noise pollution in his statement. As he grew up under a flightpath, I hope that he enjoyed the noise. Eight routes currently pass over my constituency, sometimes after midnight. My constituents struggle with the noise—one said that it was like having an uninvited dinner guest ev…”

“I join colleagues in supporting efforts to uphold the ceasefire agreement and release the hostages. I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to the families of the eight hostages who have been killed by Hamas while taken hostage, and I join Members of the House in calling for the immediate release of all those still …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank the hon. Member for Southgate and Wood Green (Bambos Charalambous) for securing today’s debate. As he pointed out, quality education is not just an important sustainable development goal, but an integral part of the achievement of all SDGs. It enha…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Marie Goldman) for securing this debate. My surgeries are full of distraught parents of SEND children. In Surrey, 1,800 children are missing education because they cannot get provision. Children are wai…”