Speeches by Mundell.

“Mary, can you give us a summary of malnutrition across Nigeria?”

“Do you think that it is acknowledged by the Nigerian Government that that situation is happening within the country? When we visited, it was not necessarily as clear as you might want.”

“Is that your experience as well, Thierno?”

“Camilla, you answered the question I was going to ask you about institutional capacity, but one thing to draw out, which maybe has not come across as much in the evidence today as we discovered when we were in Nigeria, is the complex relationship between the federal Government, the governors and the individual states. …”

“Camilla, can I ask you about Nigeria’s capacity to meet the cost of its own humanitarian and development needs? Although there is great division in the country in wealth, it is a lower to middle-income country.”

“Just to clarify whether I am right in what I heard you say—this aligns with evidence that we heard when we were in Nigeria—it is the lack of food and the difficulties with farming conditions that drive a lot of people into the arms of the terrorist organisations.”

“You have touched on it already, but what impact do you feel the cuts in funding internationally have had?”

“Andrew, what is your assessment of the human and societal consequences if nutrition needs are not met?”

“Just to be clear, you are saying that there were forces that did not want the facts to be put into the public domain.”

“Do you think that it is acknowledged by the Nigerian Government that that situation is happening within the country? When we visited, it was not necessarily as clear as you might want.”

“Older people and those in rural constituencies such as mine, which unfortunately still have unreliable broadband, rely on terrestrial television. The excellent Westminster Hall debate that I led demonstrated cross-party concern about this issue. Will the Minister meet me and other concerned MPs to discuss how we can sa…”

“9. What recent progress the Future of TV Distribution stakeholder forum has made on its work.”

“I was delighted when Eastriggs in my constituency was shortlisted for a new UK munitions factory. The Secretary of State will know about its long history in munitions and the fact that the Ministry of Defence already owns the site. Will the Scotland Office continue to promote the project and join me in facing down the …”

“I am glad to hear you say that you have had that wake-up call, because you do not always convey that. Even in your opening remarks, Gideon—with all due respect—you suggested that we were going to go back to an increased level of spending. We had a very good debate on ODA recently in Westminster Hall, and the general cr…”

“That is very important. I was very disappointed, because there was a proposal for the development of a UK Government campus in Greater Glasgow—a new building. When the Committee was in Glasgow, the feedback to us was that Abercrombie House requires significant upgrading for all—particularly higher—levels of work to be …”

“Gideon, how should the Government be balancing the bilateral funding allocated through centrally managed programmes, versus funds being spent by in-country teams?”

“Do you think there will be any strategic alignment?”

“Who do you think will drive that change? My view is that what is happening in the UK is just reactive. It is not that we have decided that there is a better way to do this, which helpfully costs less; we have just decided that we want to spend less money. Looking internationally, the US have a very clear agenda to focu…”

“I am glad to hear you say that you have had that wake-up call, because you do not always convey that. Even in your opening remarks, Gideon—with all due respect—you suggested that we were going to go back to an increased level of spending. We had a very good debate on ODA recently in Westminster Hall, and the general cr…”

“It is entirely consistent with Minister Malhotra’s response to the ODA Westminster Hall debate, when she did not set out any clear strategic objectives. In my view, it is obviously the former.”