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Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 July 2025

Debate

Tackling Unsustainable Debt

Contribution

My Lords, the UK High Court has ordered South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest countries, to pay $657 million in debt servicing to a for-profit bank. That is half its annual income. Surely we have the power and moral responsibility to prevent this happening. The previous Government passed Andrew Gwynne’s debt relief Act, so will this Government consider introducing an updated law to support millions of people in debt-distressed countries?

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