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Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 21 July 2025

Debate

Official Development Assistance

Contribution

My Lords, given that conflict is one of the reasons why development is always impeded, has the Minister had a chance to look at the correspondence last week between the Foreign Secretary and the Joint Committee on Human Rights, where the Foreign Secretary was asked whether these cuts will impact the work we are able to do with the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner and UNICEF? He said that peacekeeping would not be affected, but he was unable to answer that question. Given the importance of holding to account perpetrators of terrible crimes from Ukraine to the Middle East, in Sudan, the Horn of Africa, Syria and so many other places, does the Minister agree that we must do nothing that reduces our expenditure on bringing perpetrators to account and our attempts to try to mitigate the worst effects of the terrible violence?

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