Speeches by Cooper.

“We discussed this issue directly at the Berlin conference. I agree with the hon. Member. To be honest, I think that the international community has failed the people of Sudan. The war continues in the most horrendous circumstances. We have urged anyone who can to put pressure on the RSF and the SAF, and they must allow…”

“The most immediate, urgent thing we need to do internationally is get the strait of Hormuz reopened. That is what I have been pursuing in a series of diplomatic meetings over the last few days across five different countries with 12 different Foreign Ministers. On the domestic issue, the Chancellor will be making a sta…”

“I met Pakistan’s Foreign Minister in the last few days, and the hon. Lady will know that Pakistan is leading the mediation work as part of this effort. I have also spoken frequently to the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and we have been engaging with a whole series of countries. Over the last few days, I have met …”

“As the hon. Lady knows, we have already introduced three packages of sanctions related specifically to the settler violence on the west bank, including sanctions against Cabinet members. She will appreciate that we do not discuss sanctions in advance, but we continue to look at the issue of sanctions, and to take immen…”

“I will let Melinda and Nick supplement my answer with the precise figures, but effectively there are three central sources of funding for Africa. There is direct ODA bilateral funding. There is also our contribution to the African Development Bank, the multilateral development bank funding, which we have maintained at …”

“You do.”

“It is just a reality where, if institutions have these replenishment funds—sometimes they are three-year replenishments, sometimes there will be five-year replenishments over an extended period of time—countries then manage the profiles, and for the fund as a whole they have to manage it across different years, and for…”

“As soon as is practicable. We will let you know as soon as we have the timetable for doing it.”

“We will do it as rapidly as we can. The process that we are going through at the moment is about the individual country discussions with the Governments, so before there is a public breakdown of it, we have those individual, country-by-country Government discussions.”

“Some of what is important with things like the Global Fund, where we do the big replenishments, is that we are giving predictability because we are giving commitment over a period. It is true that the profiling of those commitments can vary, and some may vary according to where we have other profiling for other kinds o…”

“Yes, exactly.”

“We will do that as swiftly as possible. Ultimately, they of course will be published as part of the annual report. We want to do it significantly before that.”

“Part of the reason we are holding the Global Partnership Conference later this year is in order to continue with that leadership role, which we have had for historic reasons for a long time and are continuing to play. We are continuing to do it in the way in which we are arguing for reform of multilateral institutions.…”

“Sorry, I have an international call that I have to do at 5 pm. We were expecting to finish at 4.30 pm but we have just checked that we can continue. We should do an additional 10-plus minutes or so because of the Division so that we do not lose time.”

“Part of what we are trying to do is to better link it with the policy work and work across the Department. Rather than seeing it simply in terms of what is the funding pot and then the ISF goes off and does things, we want to link individual areas more effectively to the policy objective. Sudan is the easiest area or c…”

“Part of what we have been doing, because we have been shifting the approach, is getting them to think about a different way of working with individual Governments and changing the way that they work as well. Jenny can probably add more detail on this, but we have been getting countries to effectively draw up partnershi…”

“I am going to turn to Nick and Melinda on this one because different bits of the ISF are being funded in different places.”

“Different bits of the ISF funding are being picked up by different Departments and by different budgets. Just say again which area of the ISF you are interested in.”

“Countries, or the country directors, have known for some time that this was the direction of travel.”

“I would say it has to be development combined with policy interventions. I think development on its own will not help if you have particular local conflicts that erupt, different problems with corruption or things that can provoke, state to state rivalries and conflicts, and so on. It has to be an interaction between t…”