Speeches by Foord.

“Aside from the strategic export licensing criteria, when it comes to dual-use goods, what assessment is being conducted of possible use of dual-use goods in Gaza?”

“In 2013, this House voted against UK military action following the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s Government. One effect of that vote was to deter the British Government from taking action, but another effect was to have influenced the US Government into taking no action at that time. Will the Foreign Sec…”

“Some 57% of East Devon is made up of national landscapes, previously known as areas of outstanding natural beauty. I welcome the fact that these areas are protected from housing and industrial development, but for planning committees that have to meet the Minister’s targets, national landscapes compress the area that r…”

“7. What steps he is taking to increase national resilience.”

“The module 1 report recommended resilience and preparedness, and particularly “Bringing in external expertise from outside government and the Civil Service to…guard against ‘groupthink’”. How is the Minister planning to bring in that external expertise? Would he consider issuing a brochure to British citizens on prepar…”

“One aspect of support that the UK could offer Ukraine is expired medical equipment and dressings. A charity based in Axminster in my constituency, called Medics4Ukraine, has just got back from Odesa. It has been training municipal workers, and it says that it needs dressings, haemostatic dressings and gauzes. Will she …”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Sir Mark. I pay tribute to the right hon. and learned Member for Torridge and Tavistock (Sir Geoffrey Cox) who, I feel, could probably have spoken on this subject for another half an hour, with plenty more to add. He is a landowner himself, so we note his experience. I wil…”

“rose—”

“East Devon District Council has declared Seaton hospital an asset of community value and is awaiting news of round 4 of the community ownership fund to see whether we might get funding from that source. In the meantime, NHS Property Services might be seeking to remove part of that hospital. Can the Minister ask his col…”

“More than 210,000 Ukrainians have been hosted in the UK since Russia’s full-scale invasion, which is a testament to the generosity of British hosts, but the millions of Ukrainians who have left Ukraine for Europe are just a fraction of the number who might flee across Europe if Russia were successful in breaking throug…”

“I would like to build on the question posed by the right hon. Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison). Between 2014 and 2020, almost all Syrians who were given asylum in the UK applied from the region. The vulnerable persons resettlement scheme did not require Syrians to make it to the UK before applying; the sma…”

“The war in Sudan is plainly appalling. I heard that 14 million people had been displaced, but 11 million is also an appalling figure. As I understand it, this started out as a war between the general in charge of the armed forces and the general in charge of the Rapid Support Forces militia. That makes me think that we…”

“You use the language of a friendship treaty with Germany, which evokes quite a warm, fuzzy feeling, but I do wonder whether, on the defence and security side, we are going to see something that is really substantial and meaningful. We know, for example, that Europe would like the UK to put more into our links with it i…”

“In terms of what the EU asks for from us, it has often asked that we reinvigorate the youth mobility arrangements that we used to have, or at least have an EU-UK youth mobility scheme. You have often turned that down, on the basis that we do not want to re-enter freedom of movement, and I get that, but this is not free…”

“I have a question on security guarantees. We can sense that there is not a consensus among NATO countries for Ukraine joining NATO at this time. If we fail to get that consensus in the future, will the UK consider offering a different sort of security guarantee so that we do not see a further aggression against Ukraine…”

“I would like to ask first, Foreign Secretary, about the business of frozen Russian assets. Clearly, your Government have made a positive step by seizing and confiscating the interest on assets that we hold here in the UK, but what about the principal? What about the assets themselves? We know that Czechia, Finland and …”

“At the outset, Foreign Secretary, it was really good to hear you say that relations with the European Union will probably be one of your top priorities as Foreign Secretary; I think you said one of the top three priorities. I wonder if you could say a little bit more, please, about the reset. What does the reset betwee…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. He talks about storm overflows. The data recorded from storm overflows by South Water West is sometimes different to that which appears on the Water UK app. Does he agree that we need just one single reliable source for sewage outflow data?”

“I am aware of the new storm overflow hub that the Minister talks about. My point is that sometimes the data that the new hub reveals is different to the data that the water companies are revealing on their apps, such as the South West Water WaterFit app. That was discovered by a constituent of mine in relation to Sidmo…”

“Steven Tysoe from east Devon used to be a Metropolitan police officer in London, and he showed me footage of his involvement in the riots in the capital over a decade ago. He was severely injured and was regarded by the DWP as disabled. Under the new right of disabled people to work, will the Secretary of State ensure …”