Speeches by Harding.

“What is the timeline for assessing whether it is working?”

“The “polluter pays” principle commands two thirds support. What did your focus groups tell you about how the public expects that principle to be enforced and by whom?”

“You gave very good examples of self-sufficiency and effectiveness. What are some examples from your studies of what reciprocity looks like to the British public?”

“I wanted to come back to accounting and your answer to Tracy. The Centre for Global Development believes that “The UK should be clearer in its statistics which ICF projects create assets for the UK and which are pure expenditure.” Sorry if I seem slightly obsessed with the TFFF, but this comes back to that again becaus…”

“I have one final question. Was that a joined-up decision across Departments?”

“It is recoupable, so it therefore could be an asset. Saying that is very different from saying, “There’s a cash transfer of a billion pounds going over here to this fund”. This is a loan that we will recoup so it therefore could be seen as an asset. TFFF aside, that seems a much better way of measuring and accounting f…”

“The Government’s spending review identified climate and nature as a top three ODA priority, as you have just said, yet the FCDO is not committed to a nature and forests sub-pledge for ICF4. What is the justification for that decision?”

“The “polluter pays” principle commands two thirds support. What did your focus groups tell you about how the public expects that principle to be enforced and by whom?”

“Hello. The written evidence that we received—particularly that from the NGO sector—is clear that the shrinking ODA budget will require trade-offs around climate intervention and other humanitarian interventions. How will you navigate those trade-offs? What do they look like?”

“It is a loan facility—just to be clear. Also, Norway, France, Germany, Brazil, Luxembourg and Indonesia thought it was good enough to invest in, and yet, even though we were the architects—”

“Could you explain more about food security and climate shocks? Do you mean through the yields from a harvest coming to the UK?”

“The Government’s spending review identified climate and nature as a top three ODA priority, as you have just said, yet the FCDO is not committed to a nature and forests sub-pledge for ICF4. What is the justification for that decision?”

“May I ask you about the TFFF? Why was the decision made not to fund it?”

“The International Development Committee heard from a war crimes investigator that the UK Government failed to act on repeated warnings of the looming genocidal massacre in El Fasher because their foreign policy had been captured by the United Arab Emirates. He claimed that the FCDO prioritised its economic security and…”

“Will the Leader of the House join me in congratulating Princess Alice hospice in my constituency on celebrating its 40th anniversary this year? Over the past 40 years, it has cared for tens of thousands of people and has been a staple for local families at their most vulnerable. Only 20% of its funding comes from statu…”

“Yes.”

“I want to come back to the gap. I think we can accept, while we do not approve, that the gap between general elections may structurally produce the results that you have talked about. It is still true to say that at the point at which the new Government came in, atrocity prevention was not a priority. Push back at me i…”

“I understand that it is not straightforward, but we have heard evidence in the session before this that the British UK Government’s reluctance to name and shame led to a loss of lives in El Fasher. How do we make sure that that is not the case now, when it is looming in El Obeid?”

“I am very keen to hear about the ISF too. Minister, I was in Adré, as I know you have been. I was told there that they expected after the fall of El Fasher, 90,000 people to cross the border and only 45,000 arrived. There are many missing and the estimates put the number who were killed in the fall of El Fasher at 60,0…”

“Looking at Sudan today and what seems to be a threat in El Obeid happening right now, what would be your advice now to the Foreign Secretary?”