Speeches by Harding.

“T6. President Trump and Elon Musk slashing US aid was a great day for Russia and China. Will the Foreign Secretary avoid giving them another great day by committing to protect the UK’s development budget, even as we raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP? As he knows, preventing wars is cheaper than fighting them.”

“As a parent of four teenagers, I do battle on screen time every single day—so much so that my children actually thought I was coming into Parliament to give screen time to the nation. I think it is grossly unfair to blame parents or attribute responsibility to them when most parents are having this battle every single …”

“I am proud that more than 600 Ukrainians have been hosted in my constituency through the Homes for Ukraine programme. Three years on, my constituents stand with Ukraine. They know that Ukraine has protected Europe’s frontline for three years. They know that Ukraine’s fight is one that affects us all, and that if Ukrain…”

“Given the efficacy that you have outlined of the Global Fund and your value for money five-star rating that you also outlined, which was excellent, do you feel optimistic about the replenishment from the UK?”

“This is a question for Jennifer. Can I ask you, given that a donor country will be removed from the outcome of a multilateral spend how does that align with their objectives regarding value for money?”

“Can I ask what you said on this muddying of secondary and primary objectives and how that filtered through to the culture of the organisation? Therefore, managers who were looking at value-for-money programmes and how they measured them.”

“Could you talk about the value for money benefits of flexible funds, such as the Integrated Security Fund?”

“That is brilliant, thank you. Jennifer, coming back to you, what is the impact of rigorous value for money assessments on delivery partners and local organisations on the ground?”

“Abdou, I see you nodding. Is there anything you want to add to that?”

“Jennifer, this is a question for you. The FCDO has not performed a widescale review of multilateral aid since 2016 so what factors should be considered if a new review were to be commissioned?”

“3. What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on the UK’s leadership on global health and immunisation.”

“The NHS and the UK reap the benefits of our work in global health. Gavi is one of the UK’s greatest success stories: it has inoculated 1 billion children worldwide, but it has also strengthened our health security, keeping us safe from diseases such as Mpox and Ebola. What leadership will the Secretary of State and his…”

“Twenty years ago, Nelson Mandela stood in Trafalgar Square waging a war on poverty. As my hon. Friend will know, he was also the first chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which has inoculated more than 1 billion children and saved 18 million lives. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Labour Government must fulfil their…”

“If a donor country such as the UK is predominantly now giving to a multilateral fund the outcome therefore is removed slightly from their objectives because it is a multilateral spend. How do they then track a long-term outcome on the value for money scale to their own policy objectives?”

“I welcome the Minister’s statement on closer co-operation with the EU on defence and security, but on the day the Bank of England cut its growth forecast from 1.5% to 0.75%, does the Minister agree that the single biggest thing we could do to turbocharge our economy in the medium and longer-terms is to form a customs u…”

“President Trump’s proposals for the forced displacement of Gaza’s 2.2 million inhabitants would constitute a grave violation of international law, and threaten the fragile ceasefire and the return of the hostages. Will the Minister condemn them? The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination and to a state o…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank the hon. Member for Southgate and Wood Green (Bambos Charalambous) for bringing this important issue to the House, and I praise his work on raising awareness of it. For decades many low-income nations have struggled under the weight of unsustainable d…”

“Hello and welcome, Minister. Can I start off by asking you how your Government will differ from the last in their approach to achieving the second sustainable development goal on zero hunger?”

“Minister, do you have an update on UNRWA that you could share with us?”

“The cuts to UK aid in 2021 disproportionately impacted nutrition. Can you lay out how you are either going to return that to the level it was before or increase the proportion of ODA that is spent on nutrition?”