Parliamentary search - Food Security and famine prevention (Africa)

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

532 c1208-49

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for International Development

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Heidi Alexander | 532 c1234 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be unable to respond to the points that my hon. Friend has made today, owing to th...

Alison McGovern | 532 c1234 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an incredibly helpful suggestion. The Minister might consider writing to those ...

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Alison McGovern | 532 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister is about to tell me how the Treasury will assist DFID in tackling food spec...

Alison McGovern | 532 c1232-3 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and my hon. Friend the Member for...

Roger Williams | 532 c1233 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making an important point. High food prices and increased volatility seem to coinci...

Alison McGovern | 532 c1233-4 (Link to this contribution) We need an effective market that encourages trade between poor countries and richer countries, becau...

Alison McGovern | 532 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that. My fear is that we have an absence of leadership on some of these iss...

Stephen O'Brien | 532 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give an immediate response because that is not how this debate has been designed. ...

Pauline Latham | 532 c1234-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd), the hon. Member for Lewi...

Eilidh Whiteford | 532 c1225-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Members for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexa...

Roger Williams | 532 c1227-8 (Link to this contribution) I, too, commend the hon. Members who secured the debate, which gives us an opportunity to express ou...

Andrew Smith | 532 c1223 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the Secretary of State says. I am sure that he will take into account the repeated an...

Caroline Nokes | 532 c1223-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and the hon. Member for L...

Andrew Smith | 532 c1222-3 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend—that is imperative. When we see these awful experie...

Laura Sandys | 532 c1230-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) and my hon. Friend the Member for...

Ian Murray | 532 c1230 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking that question. It is important that food commodity specul...

Alison McGovern | 532 c1230 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend, like me, like to hear at the end of this debate a firm commitment to that?

Ian Murray | 532 c1228-30 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and my hon. Friend the Member for L...

Jeremy Corbyn | 532 c1217-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend represents in her constituency, like I do in mine, a considerable S...

Baroness Harman | 532 c1218 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree, and that was going to be my very next point. Not only should everybody who gives...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 532 c1218 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Lady is making an important point. Does she agree that the huge contribut...

Baroness Harman | 532 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Everyone should be proud of the work that our Government, through DFID, are doing, and t...

Kerry McCarthy | 532 c1219 (Link to this contribution) In Bristol, there is a very large Somali community, many of whom are my constituents, and their work...

Speaker | 532 c1220 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind Back Benchers that there is now a six-minute time limit?

Tony Baldry | 532 c1220-1 (Link to this contribution) I spent time with Oxfam in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984. It is difficult to describe the horro...

Joan Ruddock | 532 c1222 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that, tragically, these countries will suffer worse conditions, cert...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I can vigorously reassure the right hon. Lady that that is the case. One cannot begin to understand ...

Lyn Brown | 532 c1215 (Link to this contribution) The population of Ethiopia has grown fourfold in the past 50 years. The populations of Somalia and K...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1214-5 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that point directly. Let me set out what we in Britain are doing to help. First, in S...

Joan Ruddock | 532 c1215 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred earlier to women as the prime victims of the famine and rightly paid...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 532 c1216 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is very often the world's poorest people who are most depend...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1216 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman puts his finger on the key issue: the deep insecurity and ungoverned space in Som...

Jeremy Corbyn | 532 c1216 (Link to this contribution) I compliment the Secretary of State on visiting Somalia and Mogadishu and on the work he has been do...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1215-6 (Link to this contribution) It absolutely is. I wrote to the hon. Lady about that in June. She is entirely right: it is outrageo...

Baroness Harman | 532 c1217 (Link to this contribution) I would like to thank the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and my hon. Friend the Membe...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1217 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Had he been with me in Karamoja last week, I think it would have w...

Speaker | 532 c1208 (Link to this contribution) Before I call Amber Rudd to move the motion, I inform the House that after the opening speeches from...

Amber Rudd | 532 c1208-10 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House welcomes the contribution of the British public, via the Disasters Em...

Heidi Alexander | 532 c1210-1 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to open the debate along with the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd). I than...

Alison McGovern | 532 c1211 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a compelling case about what can be done at a micro-agriculture level to su...

Heidi Alexander | 532 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do, and I shall come to some of the wider international issues later in my speech. If w...

Jeremy Corbyn | 532 c1212 (Link to this contribution) I compliment my hon. Friend on her speech. She mentioned land purchases by western farming interests...

Speaker | 532 c1212 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I gently remind the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) that the Backbench Bu...

Heidi Alexander | 532 c1212-3 (Link to this contribution) My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was trying to accommodate interventions. The hon. Member for B...

Heidi Alexander | 532 c1212 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. I am not an expert on these issues, but I think ...

Roger Williams | 532 c1212 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady mentioned L'Aquila, does she agree that the UK claims to be on track for the disbur...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1214 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a good point, which I am coming to directly. Britain has engaged vigorou...

Laurence Robertson | 532 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend leaves the emergency situation, which he has described in great detail, ...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1213-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) and my hon. Friend the Member for...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 532 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend use his considerable leadership in his capacity as Secretary of State, wit...

Alison McGovern | 532 c1243-4 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that that highlights the point made earlier about the question of DFID's f...

Kerry McCarthy | 532 c1244 (Link to this contribution) That is true. In Bangladesh I went to a village where free-range chickens were running around. We we...

Tom Greatrex | 532 c1239-41 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) and the hon. Member for...

Andrea Leadsom | 532 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my good and hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and the hon. Mem...

Kerry McCarthy | 532 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and my hon. Friend the Member...

Sarah Newton | 532 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to participate in this afternoon's debate. I know that quite a few Members s...

Cathy Jamieson | 532 c1236 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate, which shows the value of having Back-Bench d...

Speaker | 532 c1236 (Link to this contribution) Order.

Cathy Jamieson | 532 c1237-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Although we are short of time, I do want to move on...

Bob Stewart | 532 c1236-7 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has worked in such countries—and my wife has worked in the horn of Africa as an Inter...

Sarah Newton | 532 c1244 (Link to this contribution) I am very sad that the hon. Lady has chosen to introduce a degree of party politics to this debate. ...

Amber Rudd | 532 c1248-9 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will wind up the debate. It is a pleasure to fo...

Bob Stewart | 532 c1248 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker, for not being present for the whole debate. I wanted to be but cou...

William Bain | 532 c1246-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy), whose comments on the role ...

Jeremy Lefroy | 532 c1244-6 (Link to this contribution) I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. I also thank the hon....

Kerry McCarthy | 532 c1244 (Link to this contribution) That is the position because over the past 20 years or so there has been significant progress on ani...

Andrew Mitchell | 532 c1223 (Link to this contribution) On the humanitarian efforts, we have given substantial funds and indeed pre-positioned resources to ...

Baroness Harman | 532 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I absolutely agree. We need to do a great deal more to recognise remittances. People sometimes ...

Andrew Smith | 532 c1221-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry), my colleague from Oxfordshire....

Subjects

Agriculture

Armed conflict

Development aid

Africa

Droughts

Natural disasters

Famine

East Africa

Food insecurity

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