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Humanitarian Emergency Responses

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

529 c781-94 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for International Development

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Tom Clarke | 529 c786 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and Lord Ashdown for a comprehensive report. On par...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is extremely experienced in these matters and he is absolutely right. I am ...

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Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 529 c786 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and Lord Ashdown for his excellent report. On behal...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c786 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is entirely right about those dangers, which he and his Select Committee have i...

Gareth Thomas | 529 c787 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's words today, in particular his praise for the contribution of Bri...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c787 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will understand that we consider attendance at such meetings on the basis of need...

Gary Streeter | 529 c787 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this report and the Government's response to it. Will the Secretary of State confirm that ...

Nadine Dorries | 529 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) The UN has been notoriously slow and unco-ordinated in the past in responding to certain disasters, ...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c788 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to make that point. It is the quality of local leadership on the ...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c781-3 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a statement on the Government's response, which I will publish in detail onlin...

Mark Lazarowicz | 529 c783-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and for advance sight of the Government's response ...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c785-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his welcome and for his words about the team who constructed the Ashd...

Bob Stewart | 529 c790-1 (Link to this contribution) I cannot think of anyone better than Lord Ashdown to have produced such a report, and I congratulate...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c791 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who knows a great deal about these issues, tempts me to stray beyond my areas of com...

Mark Durkan | 529 c790 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's thinking on a standing faculty for emergency response, including ...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c790 (Link to this contribution) All three reviews to which the hon. Gentleman refers focus directly on the results that we are achie...

Martin Horwood | 529 c790 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's positive response to my noble Friend's report. Together with the ...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c790 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. We are going to consult about the pre-qualification process, to e...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c791 (Link to this contribution) It is an absolute priority of the Government to try to stop violence against women—we have some 15 c...

Laura Sandys | 529 c791 (Link to this contribution) I welcome both the Ashdown report and the Government response. DFID is a world-class organisation wi...

Speaker | 529 c791 (Link to this contribution) We are grateful to the Secretary of State—there clearly isn't a dry eye in the House.

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c791 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that he wishes to put women and girls at the heart of his development po...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c788 (Link to this contribution) It depends on the disaster, but the hon. Gentleman is entirely correct to point to the valuable work...

Julian Brazier | 529 c788 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this excellent report and the Government's response to it. Does my right hon. Friend agree...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c788 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. Of course, people who live in conflict areas lose out ...

Ann Clwyd | 529 c788-9 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State knows, there is a continuing argument in the development community about w...

Jonathan Ashworth | 529 c788 (Link to this contribution) Many communities in my constituency—particularly those from Pakistan and Bangladesh, although I coul...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c789 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman identifies one of the problems with the relief effort that the international comm...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c789 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady makes a truly excellent point. Like her, I have seen how the military have deliv...

Peter Bone | 529 c789 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the excellent Secretary of State's statement. One problem appears to be the loss of life i...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c789 (Link to this contribution) I think my hon. Friend is referring to a particular incident involving a Scottish charity. I have lo...

Anas Sarwar | 529 c789 (Link to this contribution) May I add my own voice to the welcome for the report of the noble Lord Ashdown and the Government's ...

Paul Goggins | 529 c793 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, welcome Lord Ashdown's report and the Secretary of State's statement? Does he agree that...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c793 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend accurately recognises a serious threat within Nepal. That is one reason why the Minis...

Rehman Chishti | 529 c792-3 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Secretary of State's statement? He will know that there was an earthquake in Nepal...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c792 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely correct. That is why we have, for example, consistently sought to pre...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c792 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her comments, which are extremely helpful. She is right to talk about the...

Jo Swinson | 529 c792 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Ashdown report and the Government's response. May I urge the Government to take...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c791 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend identifies entirely accurately one of the seven key points made by Lord Ashdown and h...

Jim Shannon | 529 c794 (Link to this contribution) All the humanitarian aid we give for natural disasters, such as that in Pakistan, or to countries wi...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c794 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that I will and I have. I commend to the hon. Lady the 35-page report which should now...

Naomi Long | 529 c794 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome both Lord Ashdown's report and the Government's response. In a humanitarian crisis,...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c793-4 (Link to this contribution) In respect of the responsibility to protect, the hon. Gentleman will know that that is a technical U...

Emma Reynolds | 529 c794 (Link to this contribution) The objectives set out in Lord Ashdown's report will require what he calls ““transformational change...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c794 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very good point. She identifies two of Britain's brilliant NGOs, RedR and Wate...

Philip Hollobone | 529 c793 (Link to this contribution) Whenever disaster strikes, and in almost whatever form it takes, there always seems to be a shortage...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c793 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point on which I sought to be absolutely clear in my opening r...

Mike Gapes | 529 c793 (Link to this contribution) In his introduction, the Secretary of State said that ““we will intervene directly where the UK can ...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c793 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. He rightly identifies that problem as one of the criti...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c794 (Link to this contribution) I hear those allegations from time to time and I always ensure that they are investigated with the s...

Speaker | 529 c781 (Link to this contribution) I appeal, as always on these occasions, to hon. and right hon. Members leaving the Chamber to do so ...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c787 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right about the absolute priority that the Government place on supporting such sma...

Hugh Bayley | 529 c792 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the Secretary of State says about resilience and enabling countries to respond better...

Andrew Mitchell | 529 c792 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks. We understand the importance of Yemen, which ...

Keith Vaz | 529 c792 (Link to this contribution) Even though the Secretary of State has been in office for only a year, he is turning out to be outst...

Subjects

Accountability Disaster relief Disasters International assistance Humanitarian aid Government responses Humanitarian Emergency Response Review

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