Speeches by Reed.

“Thank you for being with us today, Foreign Secretary. You had 14 years in opposition, and you have been in post for a year now. What we have seen throughout the year is that you reduced ODA spend from 0.5% to 0.3%, but I am still not hearing any cohesive vision for where you want to go. You said that you will do line-b…”

“It is a big ODA spend, so I think it is very fair to ask these questions.”

“So where will the people go?”

“I don’t think it is. This is a very serious issue.”

“Final question on that. The number will go down to zero per cent in asylum hotels; the approach that you have just laid out will make sure that no one comes here illegally any more, and that no one will be housed here. Are those your points—purely return deals and working upstream? Is that going to be enough?”

“But the people who come here illegally are coming from international countries, so how does the FCDO not have equity in that process?”

“I would disagree heavily with—”

“But it is split equity, across the FCDO—”

“At the moment, if people come here illegally, they are put in hotels, and that is paid for through the ODA budget; it goes to the Home Office. If you are saying, and the Government are saying, that that will be reduced to zero by the end of this Parliament—2029—where do you envision that people who come here illegally …”

“To follow on from that, this will be split equity, across the FCDO and the Home Office. Where will people who do come here illegally go?”

“So how is it going to happen? How will you, as FCDO Secretary, monitor that with the Home Office?”

“Of course.”

“You have said that it is going to go down to zero per cent by 2029, so what is that process?”

“The point I am making, Foreign Secretary, is that you have had a year to come up with a vision, and you had 14 years in opposition to come up with this vision. All we have seen is reduction. Going to my question about asylum hotels, a large chunk of what is left is going to the Home Office.”

“We have not heard it, and I did not hear it from the previous Minister either.”

“I am not saying that; I am saying there is no vision.”

“Foreign Secretary, can you understand how difficult that is to communicate to the UK public about how their taxpayer money is being spent?”

“Q Following on from the shadow Minister’s questions about scalability and production, Ms Haywood, you talked about the globally distributed nature of this technology sector. With international supply chains becoming more contested and the view that traditional production methods will be scaled down and SAF will be incr…”

“Q You did your independent report in 2023. Obviously, the world has changed rapidly in the past couple of years. We are seeing global economic change, with tariffs, international supply chains becoming more contested, and increased conflicts and volatility. How have the conclusions that you drew in 2023 changed, and wh…”

“Q If British money is being spent on British technologies, and if you are leveraging capital to go on those SAF programmes, where is that money coming from? Is the investment attitude right in this country toward green technologies and SAF? Which countries are quite front-footed in their approach to investing in these …”