Speeches by Mathew.

“Could I extend this perhaps a little bit to the others? What are the biggest gaps in global health data, and how do they affect countries’, including the UK’s, ability to respond to current and future health crises?”

“A few weeks ago Dr Cooper and myself were in South Africa and we visited the CERI Institute at the University of Stellenbosch. We heard about the amazing work that they have been doing there, which affects our health system here, but also doing diagnostics and offering a service across Africa where samples of unidentif…”

“This is to everyone. What are the implications of inequity between the Global North and the Global South on health security?”

“Back to you, Baroness Chapman. How is the UK fostering greater collaboration with partners in the Global South and between partners within the Global South?”

“Dr Cooper and I saw and witnessed, when we were in Cape Town a few weeks ago, what CERI is doing with its links right across Africa in disease identification. It is very important.”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. I thank the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for introducing this important debate on behalf of the Petitions Committee. Like many in this place, I have skin in this game. In my case, members of my family were brought up in North…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. I thank the hon. Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) for securing this valuable debate. Let me take you, Ms McVey, and the Minister to my constituency of Melksham and Devizes, in the beautiful county of Wiltshire, where many villages have worked to develo…”

“I agree entirely with the right hon. Member. I urge the Government to reconsider their decision. Local democracy should not be a luxury available only to those who can afford to pay for it.”

“As I tried to make out in my speech, the worry of a two-tier system, where some communities can afford a neighbourhood plan and others simply cannot, will be important. The only way out that I can think of would be a simplification of the neighbourhood planning process, which would allow communities to get on and do it…”

“Does the right hon. Member agree that this is an issue of not just policy, but dignity? These women’s voices must be heard, and the Government have a responsibility to honour commitments made, to give fair treatment, and to ensure that something is done.”

“My hon. Friend will remember that on our trip to the west bank late last year, some of us witnessed a girls’ school that had been tear-gassed just the day before; in fact, it still had smouldering shells in the roof. Does she agree that UNRWA schools and their children must be protected?”

“It is a pleasure to speak under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. I thank the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Peter Prinsley) for securing this important debate. I thought I would offer some of my experiences of listening to the BBC World Service over the years: from winning a T-shirt from David Lee Travis’s …”

“I totally agree with my hon. Friend. On funding, although the general medical services baseline is around two thirds of our income, it has gone up by 7.2%, with 6% eaten up by the increases in employer national insurance contributions and the national living wage. Our other income streams—dispensing, QOF and enhanced s…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Newton Abbot (Martin Wrigley) for securing this important and timely debate. I will quote a GP in Melksham and Devizes who also covers part of the neighbouring constituency. He wrote in an email to me this week: “Without…”

“Juliette, how does the Shell Foundation define clean energy? What is included under this term?”

“Ed, how is clean energy defined in the context of your programme?”

“Out of interest, do you look at biogas at all?”

“I have two more questions for Juliette. This is where I play bad cop, so apologies for that. Is it correct to say that FCDO donations are supporting fossil fuel projects or investments?”

“Thank you. That is good and nice to know. That is a one-word answer for that one. Secondly, considering the scale of Shell group’s carbon emissions, how does the Foundation respond to concerns that it has worked among greenwashing?”

“Fascinating. So, I will just say no more questions, your Honour.”