Speeches by Harding.

“I wanted to come back to your words about reimagining aid. You referenced the Wellcome Foundation’s article yesterday. Can you talk to me about not the low and middle-income countries but the very poorest countries, and how these cuts in international aid budget translate there?”

“Back to the Fleming Fund.”

“Will there be a situation where the UK would increase funding, obviously not to completely fill that gap but to go some way, with a coalition of other countries?”

“I wanted to come back to your words about reimagining aid. You referenced the Wellcome Foundation’s article yesterday. Can you talk to me about not the low and middle-income countries but the very poorest countries, and how these cuts in international aid budget translate there?”

“Back to the Fleming Fund.”

“I want to come back to the point you made, which is the partnership and reimagining aid in that event. The head of the Wellcome Charitable Foundation pointed out—I am sure you read the article in the FT—that aid cuts will have a bigger impact than the covid pandemic on health in the Global South. While I understand tha…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that it is very difficult to measure accountability in these schools? Where does accountability sit, and how do parents know that their children are achieving in those schools?”

“In Surrey, for example, 1,800 children with special educational needs are missing education because there is no provision. They are sliding into poor mental health as a result, and that needs to stop. Does my hon. Friend agree?”

“I thank my fellow Surrey MP for his thoughts. Last year, nearly half of Surrey’s high needs block of £122 million was spent supporting SEND places at non-maintained independent schools. Placing those children in state-maintained school is often half the cost. Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that we need to put more m…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that we do not fix a financial problem by giving away a right? For many parents and families battling the system, an EHCP is the only protection that a child gets to a right to education.”

“I once more thank the hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur) for all he has done to bring the Bill forward. We, along with thousands of families throughout the UK, all owe him a huge debt. I am proud to have supported the Bill from the very beginning. I also pay tribute to the ongoing work of the hon. Member …”

“I thank the hon. Member for all her advocacy on the issue. She makes an important point, which was made previously: rare cancers are not rare for the victims and their families. That is why we need to bring such treatments into the NHS so that they are available for all, not just for those who set up GoFundMe pages tha…”

“I am—excuse me. Coming back to the human rights chapter, can I draw your attention to the war in Sudan? That is the biggest humanitarian crisis since aid began, with 30 million people in food insecurity. I understand that the gold trade and weapons are both out of scope of the GCC trade agreement. About 90% of the illi…”

“I was taken by what you said about geopolitics interrupting economics. The value of UK exports to markets such as Kyrgyzstan, which is believed to be an entry point for sanctioned goods into Russia, has increased by around 300%. Are UK sanctions really a threat to our adversaries, or are they just a mild annoyance?”

“Mr Alexander, how satisfied are you with the UK’s overall approach to enforcing its economic security regime?”

“My question is: how does that stack up with what you are saying about the human rights chapter and how it is implicit in everything you do, if it is not within the GCC deal?”

“The Iranian regime is utterly committed to destabilising the middle east and exporting terrorism globally, and under the auspices of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is focused on threatening our own citizens in the UK. The Minister mentioned the introduction of the new power of proscription to cover state threats…”

“May I invite the Secretary of State to congratulate Burhill primary school in Hersham, which I visited this morning? It has been re-awarded for excellence in wellbeing for the second year in a row for providing great mental health provision. My constituency is a large contributor to the Exchequer, but it is also one of…”

“Palestinian children have a right to education and to the chance of a decent future, as all children do. A total of 84 west bank schools are under threat from pending demolition orders. Will the Minister update us on steps being taken to support UNRWA and ensure education provision in the west bank? Israel’s actions in…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Turner. I thank the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Martin Rhodes) for securing this important debate. For the almost six decades that the west bank has been occupied by Israel, the UN Security Council has been calling for Israel to withdraw, but instead it has expanded…”