Speeches by Cooper.

“The Chancellor will be making a statement later this afternoon, because she has been focusing in particular on the cost of living and the importance of supporting people and businesses across the country during this global crisis. Another concern is that Russia is seeking to benefit from this conflict, which is yet ano…”

“My hon. Friend is right. We did not get involved in the start of this conflict, but we will work to bring it to a close and do everything we can to get the strait reopened. It is affecting the cost of living back at home in her constituency, across the country and across the world. No country should be able to hijack i…”

“As the hon. Lady knows, we have already introduced three packages of sanctions related specifically to the settler violence on the west bank, including sanctions against Cabinet members. She will appreciate that we do not discuss sanctions in advance, but we continue to look at the issue of sanctions, and to take immen…”

“My hon. Friend has raised with me the Norwegian Refugee Council report, and crimes around violence against women and girls. We have made tackling violence against women and girls, including those in conflict, a priority for the Foreign Office. We will take the matter immensely seriously. It is a crime, and the use of t…”

“The UK Government have put in place a series of measures that include introducing sanctions against Cabinet members in the Israeli Government. We have taken action around sanctions and arms sales. We have been maintaining continuous international pressure, working with allies, including around the negotiations on Leban…”

“The hon. Member will know that we called for the ceasefire to be extended to Lebanon, and we condemned the escalation of Israeli airstrikes. We have also strongly condemned the Hezbollah attacks on Israel, which must stop. The issue exposed clearly at the beginning of this conflict was that Hezbollah was simply being a…”

“My hon. Friend will know that goods from illegal settlements are already not entitled to tariff preferences under the UK-Israel agreement, or the agreement with the Palestinian Authority. We are deeply concerned about reports of the decision to establish 34 new settlements, which would be added to the 68 settlements es…”

“Mr Speaker, may I join the tributes to Her late Majesty the Queen? The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that over 2,500 Palestinians have been displaced by evictions, settler violence and demolitions this year alone. The UK is clear that Israeli illegal settlements and decisions designed …”

“My hon. Friend is right to highlight the changing technology, geopolitics and security threats. We now face very different threats to our country. That is why we are increasing both the defence budget and the Foreign Office’s work around a range of hybrid threats, including cyber and others, and we will need to continu…”

“The starting point was the appointment of Peter Mandelson; he should never have been appointed to his post. The Prime Minister made that clear, and has apologised not just to the House but, more importantly, to the victims of Epstein, which is where that apology should lie. The right hon. Lady will know that Ministers …”

“The House was not given the full information. It is important that it should be given the full information, and I have undertaken to write to the Select Committee ensuring that full, as well as accurate, information is provided.”

“I can tell the hon. Member that as well as discussing this matter intensively at the Berlin conference, I discussed it with the UAE Foreign Minister, whom I met a couple of days ago. I also discussed it with the other members of the Quad—the US, Saudi and Egypt. We are continuing to work not just with the Quad but much…”

“I know that my right hon. Friend has been taking evidence on that issue and that she has raised issues around security. We take the issue of security extremely seriously. She will know that there is a police investigation under way, which raises some of those issues. She will appreciate that I do not want to say anythi…”

“It is just a reality where, if institutions have these replenishment funds—sometimes they are three-year replenishments, sometimes there will be five-year replenishments over an extended period of time—countries then manage the profiles, and for the fund as a whole they have to manage it across different years, and for…”

“Some of what is important with things like the Global Fund, where we do the big replenishments, is that we are giving predictability because we are giving commitment over a period. It is true that the profiling of those commitments can vary, and some may vary according to where we have other profiling for other kinds o…”

“As soon as is practicable. We will let you know as soon as we have the timetable for doing it.”

“Part of the reason we are holding the Global Partnership Conference later this year is in order to continue with that leadership role, which we have had for historic reasons for a long time and are continuing to play. We are continuing to do it in the way in which we are arguing for reform of multilateral institutions.…”

“Part of what we have been doing, because we have been shifting the approach, is getting them to think about a different way of working with individual Governments and changing the way that they work as well. Jenny can probably add more detail on this, but we have been getting countries to effectively draw up partnershi…”

“We will do it as rapidly as we can. The process that we are going through at the moment is about the individual country discussions with the Governments, so before there is a public breakdown of it, we have those individual, country-by-country Government discussions.”

“You do.”