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“Debt reform. I believe there are some climate aspects to those discussions.”

“I guess that also links to the capacity building needs that we heard about in our earlier session. Avinash, very briefly, do you have anything to add on the barriers to accessing the UK’s climate finance currently?”

“May, do you have anything to add on how the UK can better adapt its policies to support climate-vulnerable countries to access finance?”

“Very briefly, Avinash, what do you think of the work of the London Coalition? How looped into that are you, and does it address some of these points that you have raised?”

“Debt reform. I believe there are some climate aspects to those discussions.”

“Very briefly, would you describe the ringfencing concept you have just described as a top-down approach?”

“To both of you: taking stock of what you have said about the UK’s current climate finance approach, how well aligned is it to the needs and priorities of climate-vulnerable countries?”

“Very briefly, would you describe the ringfencing concept you have just described as a top-down approach?”

“Dishon, I was wondering about the challenges you face at grassroots when trying to access this funding. You mentioned direct funding from FCDO but how is it in terms of getting access? What barriers do you face in terms of getting access to that funding?”

“To segue this question back to Avinash, it seems that there is some agreement that our very immediate focus and immediate use of resources should be on adaptation and response, as you mentioned earlier, Avinash, just to check that that is agreed on. Are you then saying that actually for that longer-term mitigation work…”

“Dishon, I was wondering about the challenges you face at grassroots when trying to access this funding. You mentioned direct funding from FCDO but how is it in terms of getting access? What barriers do you face in terms of getting access to that funding?”

“To segue this question back to Avinash, it seems that there is some agreement that our very immediate focus and immediate use of resources should be on adaptation and response, as you mentioned earlier, Avinash, just to check that that is agreed on. Are you then saying that actually for that longer-term mitigation work…”

“To both of you: taking stock of what you have said about the UK’s current climate finance approach, how well aligned is it to the needs and priorities of climate-vulnerable countries?”

“I guess that also links to the capacity building needs that we heard about in our earlier session. Avinash, very briefly, do you have anything to add on the barriers to accessing the UK’s climate finance currently?”

“May, do you have anything to add on how the UK can better adapt its policies to support climate-vulnerable countries to access finance?”

“I am delighted that Pondhu primary school in my constituency has been a trailblazer for not just our Government’s free breakfast clubs scheme, but investment in school nurseries, which has been a resounding success. What assessment has the Minister made of the positive impacts of our free breakfast clubs programme on c…”

“12. What steps she has taken to roll out Best Start free breakfast clubs.”

“Can I ask the Minister to engage in a short thought experiment? If senior members of the Labour party, at the time they were in opposition, had gone to lobby a foreign Government against the best interests of the British security services, what would have been the reaction of the right-wing media and Opposition parties…”

“Rosalind, if I am not mistaken, there is a multibillion-dollar gold trade between the UK and the UAE. Would that not be a good place for the UK to start exploring in terms of potential diplomatic pressure to resolve the conflict in Sudan?”

“This is a good point to pick up on that question. It is quite disgusting to hear the recurring point about incentives, amid all the chaos and horrors of this war—the fact that people are ultimately getting rich out of the war, or at the end of it. What steps are being taken, or could be taken, to curtail some of the il…”