Speeches by Harding.

“Anouschka, in your report, you found that climate-related ODA can meet the public’s tests more easily than traditional aid, so what specifically makes climate finance more compelling to the public than other forms of overseas spending?”

“Could you explain more about food security and climate shocks? Do you mean through the yields from a harvest coming to the UK?”

“I wanted to come back to accounting and your answer to Tracy. The Centre for Global Development believes that “The UK should be clearer in its statistics which ICF projects create assets for the UK and which are pure expenditure.” Sorry if I seem slightly obsessed with the TFFF, but this comes back to that again becaus…”

“What does transparency look like? You have talked about the effects that the people you polled saw, but what about the transparency? You talked about effectiveness as well. Is there some anxiety about the transparency of where the money is going and how it is being spent?”

“If you need to recalibrate, does that mean you may have a sub-pledge on ICF4?”

“Sorry—you say that you are not in a position now, but Minister, you say that you think it is ready to be.”

“The “polluter pays” principle commands two thirds support. What did your focus groups tell you about how the public expects that principle to be enforced and by whom?”

“With a smaller aid budget, the Government want to be, apparently, more strategic and to be an investor rather than a donor, and yet this is an investor model, which is still not being funded.”

“I have one final question. Was that a joined-up decision across Departments?”

“Hello. The written evidence that we received—particularly that from the NGO sector—is clear that the shrinking ODA budget will require trade-offs around climate intervention and other humanitarian interventions. How will you navigate those trade-offs? What do they look like?”

“Some people would say it is actually preventing the conflict in the first place because climate change is a creator of conflict.”

“It is recoupable, so it therefore could be an asset. Saying that is very different from saying, “There’s a cash transfer of a billion pounds going over here to this fund”. This is a loan that we will recoup so it therefore could be seen as an asset. TFFF aside, that seems a much better way of measuring and accounting f…”

“Will the Leader of the House join me in congratulating Princess Alice hospice in my constituency on celebrating its 40th anniversary this year? Over the past 40 years, it has cared for tens of thousands of people and has been a staple for local families at their most vulnerable. Only 20% of its funding comes from statu…”

“The International Development Committee heard from a war crimes investigator that the UK Government failed to act on repeated warnings of the looming genocidal massacre in El Fasher because their foreign policy had been captured by the United Arab Emirates. He claimed that the FCDO prioritised its economic security and…”

“Matthew, can I ask—and I think this will become a theme throughout this afternoon—about the supporting actors in this: the countries that surround Myanmar geographically or that are interested in Myanmar, and where you expect that push for accountability to come from? Is it from the usual suspects and, in that, is Amer…”

“Yes.”

“Matthew, can I ask—and I think this will become a theme throughout this afternoon—about the supporting actors in this: the countries that surround Myanmar geographically or that are interested in Myanmar, and where you expect that push for accountability to come from? Is it from the usual suspects and, in that, is Amer…”

“I am very keen to hear about the ISF too. Minister, I was in Adré, as I know you have been. I was told there that they expected after the fall of El Fasher, 90,000 people to cross the border and only 45,000 arrived. There are many missing and the estimates put the number who were killed in the fall of El Fasher at 60,0…”

“I want to come back to the gap. I think we can accept, while we do not approve, that the gap between general elections may structurally produce the results that you have talked about. It is still true to say that at the point at which the new Government came in, atrocity prevention was not a priority. Push back at me i…”

“I understand that it is not straightforward, but we have heard evidence in the session before this that the British UK Government’s reluctance to name and shame led to a loss of lives in El Fasher. How do we make sure that that is not the case now, when it is looming in El Obeid?”