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Proceeding contribution from Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 15 June 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Humanitarian Emergency Responses.


Humanitarian Emergency Responses

I warmly welcome the Ashdown report and the Government's response. May I urge the Government to take an integrated, cross-departmental approach to this that includes the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence as well as DFID, in order to anticipate better how different risk factors can combine to threaten human life? For example, water shortage in a politically volatile area could trigger conflict, turning a humanitarian problem into a humanitarian disaster.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
529 c792 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Accountability Disaster relief Disasters International assistance Humanitarian aid Government responses Humanitarian Emergency Response Review
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk