Speeches by Macdonald.

“8. What steps his Department is taking to support small and medium-sized businesses.”

“Small and medium-sized businesses come in many forms, from microbusinesses to community interest companies and co-operatives. Often, co-operative and mutual business models are overlooked. Norwich has a proud history of co-operatives. Will the Secretary of State reassure me that co-operative and mutual business models …”

“Does the hon. Member recognise the support from all parties for a new dental school in Norwich? Does he welcome the £1.5 million that was announced last week by the Greater Norwich Growth Board in support of the bid for a new dental school?”

“What do you see as the biggest risk currently facing ICAI, and how will you manage it?”

“In your last point, you touched on the operational side. In the previous commission, ICAI has had some uncertainty around budget and long periods of understaffing. Could you expand a little bit on the steps that you would take to ensure that it does have the resources that it needs going forward?”

“Turning to the UK’s role, how can the UK Government support the French leadership at this summit? What are you hoping for from the UK Government?”

“I should probably declare that I used to work for a hunger campaign, Alliance Against Hunger, just for the record. Ms Mtonga, when a disaster strikes—for example, El Niño and the effect that had in Malawi for droughts—do you see in more of a humanitarian setting that the localisation principles still apply? If a lot of…”

“Thank you.”

“I do not know if I am quite an expert.”

“It is nice to see you again. Segueing from what Noah Law was saying, you said that there is lots of continuity, which can be a good thing, but unless it delivers actual outcomes, perhaps it does not make much difference if we are not seeing the actual impact on the ground. Think about waking up on 30 March 2025, after …”

“Seventeen?”

“You mentioned the 17 organisations and there are lots of different initiatives. You mentioned the World Bank and the IDA replenishment, and the UK has made some announcements around that. Do you think there is a need to join all these things up? The SDG is a target and a road map, but it does not feel to me that there …”

“Turning to the UK’s role, how can the UK Government support the French leadership at this summit? What are you hoping for from the UK Government?”

“You would like them to turn up with a monetary contribution, too?”

“ODA is an important source of funding, but are you hoping to discuss other forms of funding? You touched on the development banks. France had the big finance summit last year, hosted by President Macron, looking at the financial institutions as a whole. Do you see this linking into that in any way in terms of where the…”

“We could talk about it for a long time. When we had the food crisis in 2009, the UN came in and set up the high-level group on tackling food crises with David Nabarro, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme came out of that. Do you think the UN could be playing more of a role? I also wanted to pick up o…”

“You could argue that we have had that with Ukraine and what happened to food prices.”

“I should probably declare that I used to work for a hunger campaign, Alliance Against Hunger, just for the record. Ms Mtonga, when a disaster strikes—for example, El Niño and the effect that had in Malawi for droughts—do you see in more of a humanitarian setting that the localisation principles still apply? If a lot of…”

“Thank you.”

“I do not know if I am quite an expert.”