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Whole Day Download the Hansard Wednesday Volume 652 9 January 2019 No. 230 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Wednesday 9 January 2019 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2019 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 341 9 JANUARY 2019 342 Alistair Burt: The full details of the impact of the US House of Commons withdrawal have yet to be worked through. Our focus on humanitarian aid will not be changed, and we continue to monitor the situation closely as it develops. Our Wednesday 9 January 2019 focus on providing humanitarian assistance to millions of people displaced both externally and internally will The House met at half-past Eleven o’clock remain. Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby) (Lab/Co-op): PRAYERS The possibility of a US withdrawal raises serious concerns about civilian protection. Will the Minister tell us what [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] the Government are doing to work with agencies on the ground to ensure that, particularly in the Kurdish-controlled areas and in Idlib, as much as possible is done to protect Oral Answers to Questions civilians? Alistair Burt: Yes indeed. Toreassure the hon. Gentleman, who is the Chair of the Select Committee, we are very INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT concerned about the potential implications, particularly on the Turkish-Syrian border. We are in constant contact with our partners in relation to this and with humanitarian The Secretary of State was asked— agencies, which are fully abreast of the consequences of Syria actions that have not yet happened. Everything is being done to try to encourage a peaceful resolution of the 1. Simon Hoare (North Dorset) (Con): What steps political conflicts there. she is taking to provide humanitarian assistance to people in Syria. [908413] Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley) (Lab): Are any plans in 14. Royston Smith (Southampton, Itchen) (Con): What place to deal with what will be, I suspect, the increasing steps she is taking to provide humanitarian assistance humanitarian needs of Syrian Kurds in particular,especially to people in Syria. [908426] if they are attacked by the Turkish military? The Minister of State, Department for International Alistair Burt: As I indicated to the Chair of the Select Development (Alistair Burt): The United Kingdom is at Committee, we are all extremely concerned about the the forefront of the humanitarian response and has potential implications of US withdrawal and what it been providing life-saving support to millions of people might mean on the Turkish border in relation to Kurdish across Syria from the start of the conflict. To date, we areas. Humanitarian agencies are very alert to this, but have committed £2.71 billion, our largest ever response politically we are doing what we can with partners to to a single humanitarian crisis. This includes the provision minimise any risk of confrontation there. of more than 27 million food rations and 10 million relief packages since 2012. Alex Chalk (Cheltenham) (Con): What assessment is Simon Hoare: I thank my right hon. Friend for that it possible to make of the number of lives that have answer. Just before Christmas, I had the rather humbling been saved in Syria as a result of the historic financial honour of meeting two Syrian families who fled the contribution to the aid effort by the United Kingdom? horror of that country to find sanctuary in Shaftesbury in my constituency, where they are making their new Alistair Burt: It is difficult to put full figures on this, home. The pictures that they showed me and the stories to be honest. We believe, as I indicated earlier, that we that they told were indeed horrible. Will my right hon. have provided 27 million food rations, 40 million medical Friend assure me that, notwithstanding everything else consultations, 10 million relief packages, and 10 million that is going on, Her Majesty’s Government has not vaccines. If we look at all those whose lives have been forgotten Syria and the underlying and ever pressing protected—the 3.5 million in Turkey, the 1.5 million in need for peace? Lebanon and the 1 million in Jordan— we can see that United Kingdom aid has played a significant part Alistair Burt: I can assure my hon. Friend that no one in that. in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office or the Department for International Development has forgotten Syria. We are all shocked and moved by the plight of Chris Law (Dundee West) (SNP): Last year the UK those who have suffered so much, and I am familiar Government cut funding to aid programmes in rebel-held with some of the pictures that my hon. Friend describes. Syria, instead shifting focus to this valuable humanitarian We are engaged diplomatically and in humanitarian work in the region. None-the-less, groups such as the terms every day in relation to Syria. Free Syrian police, whom we supported throughout the conflict, continue to face a number of threats from Royston Smith: Although Daesh is significantly weakened the regime as they continue their valuable work. Will in Syria, a US departure could leave a vacuum that the Secretary of State assure me that her Department could cause more misery. Does the Minister expect the has not simply abandoned these people and that their focus of humanitarian assistance in Syria to change as a ongoing protection is still a matter of serious concern result of the withdrawal of US troops? for the UK Government? 343 Oral Answers 9 JANUARY 2019 Oral Answers 344 Alistair Burt: DFID’s aid has always been focused on strategy to ensure that it is not just about girls in humanitarian need, regardless of who has been in control classrooms, but about the quality of education that they of territory. Provided we can be assured that aid and are receiving. Only through a concerted effort in that support are not diverted for terrorist or extremist purposes respect, and by asking other partners to step up, will we but get through to those who are in need, that is the ensure that every woman and girl has a decent education. guiding principle on which we work, and will continue to be the principle on which DFID will provide Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton) (Lab): I welcome humanitarian aid. the Secretary of State’s ambitious strategy on gender equality, which is a heartening step towards Labour’s Gender Equality feminist approach to international development, but these commitments will remain just warm words if, as 2. Nigel Huddleston (Mid Worcestershire) (Con): What we learned last month, 20%—600—of DFID’s staff are steps her Department is taking to improve gender equality to be reassigned to other Departments to help to manage for women throughout the world. [908414] the Tories’ Brexit shambles. Will the Secretary of State tell the House very specifically what impact she expects The Secretary of State for International Development that huge cut to have on her gender equality strategy, (Penny Mordaunt): Gender equality is considered in the and, indeed, on all her Department’s work? design of all DFID’s programmes, and is essential to achieving the sustainable development goals. Between Penny Mordaunt: I welcome the hon. Gentleman to 2015 and 2018, UK aid provided 16.9 million women his new role and sincerely wish him well in it, but his and girls with modern methods of family planning, and assertion is incorrect. That is not the number of staff helped 5.6 million girls to gain access to a decent who have been redeployed. I think that, currently, the education. grand total of DFID staff who are helping other Departments is 25. However, if the hon. Gentleman is Nigel Huddleston: Action on Poverty, a charity based concerned about a no-deal situation, he knows what he in my constituency, has done some tremendous work in needs to do: he needs to vote for the Prime Minister’s Africa and Asia, including helping thousands of women deal. to set up their own businesses. What more can the Department do to assist charities such as Action on Dan Carden: I am grateful to the Secretary of State Poverty? for her warm words, but I note that she did not rule out the possibility of 600 staff leaving the Department. Penny Mordaunt: I pay tribute to the work that Action on Poverty has done, and, indeed, to my hon. Many Members will have been deeply concerned by Friend’s support for that organisation. We are currently reports in the media last week that DFID’s independence helping it, through UK Aid Direct, to improve livelihoods may once again be up for debate in this summer’s and food security in Sierra Leone, but, more widely, we comprehensive spending review, although merging DFID want to increase the number of small and medium-sized with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office would fly charities and other organisations with which we work to in the face of the evidence of how our aid budget can deliver the global goals. make the greatest impact. Given that more UK aid money is already being spent by other Departments, Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op): Let given the brazen attempts to use aid to win trade deals, me ask the Secretary of State a pertinent question and given that 600 staff are on their way out, is the about empowering women. Does she agree that all the Secretary of State not overseeing the managed decline research shows that allowing them to start their own of the Department for International Development ? businesses and have control over their own lives is one of the best ways of empowering them, and that that Penny Mordaunt: The hon.
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