Speeches by Taylor.

“I am not laying it at your door. I think it is something we might want to pick up with the Treasury.”

“Because you brought up the issue of leveraging extra finance, I wondered what discussions you have had with the Treasury, since the decision to cut the aid budget was made, about looking at alternative forms of development finance. I hear what you are saying about putting money into the World Bank because of the money …”

“Forgive me if this is a stupid question based on what you have just said, but are you saying therefore that any money saved from the reduction in hotel use by the Home Office will not, as things stand, automatically flow back into aid overseas?”

“Even though the money is not allocated out of ODA spending, does it still have a development impact and focus within it? In some ways, if it does, that is great, because it is additional money that is not coming out of the aid budget. If it does not, the whole point of this is to have some integration between foreign p…”

“That is helpful. You may have already answered this, but when we last saw you in February, Nick, you said you were going to be doing a review of the ISF. Is that old news now? Has what you have just said taken over from that?”

“My question is really getting at what the mitigation for that is. What alternative options are you looking at, so that we do not lose the fund’s original intention?”

“Did it say yes to any of those?”

“Turning to the integrated security fund, the allocations are on the downward trend. I want to understand the rationale for that decision.”

“How important do you see development education being, and what is the current state of it in the UK school system? What needs to be done to improve it? My personal view is that those cuts 10 years ago undermined public support—maybe not immediately, but in the years since. Where is the new generation of people coming f…”

“What is the panel’s assessment of the Government’s record on communicating the results of UK aid and development with the British public, including the implications of the cuts that were made to development education many years ago?”

“Could you just reiterate the stats you mentioned earlier—the numbers that we are talking about?”

“I want to follow up on the cuts overseas. It would be great if you could elaborate on what you think the implications of these will be.”

“How important do you see development education being, and what is the current state of it in the UK school system? What needs to be done to improve it? My personal view is that those cuts 10 years ago undermined public support—maybe not immediately, but in the years since. Where is the new generation of people coming f…”

“What is the panel’s assessment of the Government’s record on communicating the results of UK aid and development with the British public, including the implications of the cuts that were made to development education many years ago?”

“Could you just reiterate the stats you mentioned earlier—the numbers that we are talking about?”

“I want to follow up on the cuts overseas. It would be great if you could elaborate on what you think the implications of these will be.”

“I associate myself with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion), the Chair of the Select Committee—of which I am a member—and the remarks of others who have spoken about the horrors unfolding in front of our eyes. We have heard reports that Tawila is next. There are 650,000 people there,…”

“I welcome today’s announcement. I want to ask about the transfer to council and mayoral oversight in the context of a challenge I have locally. I have an amazing local police force in Hemel police. Officers often encounter instances of individuals and families who are responsible for antisocial behaviour affecting thei…”

“I associate myself with the remarks made by my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby (John Slinger) yesterday. He noted that in previous conflicts, concerted efforts had been made to bring in some form of UN peacekeeping force, but unfortunately, that does not seem very popular in today’s world. I will forgive the Minister …”

“On that point, will the Minister give way?”