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1701277

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	UNRWA: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, pursuant to the answer of 15 April 2024 to Question 20677 on UNRWA: Finance, what evidence his Department has received from Israel confirming allegations made against UNRWA; and whether he has shared that evidence with (a) UNRWA and (b) governments that have reinstated funding to UNRWA.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	22050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>We are appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned.</p><p>We are aware that the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna have now provided their interim reports to the UN Secretary-General</p><p>We want UNRWA to give detailed undertakings about changes in personnel, policy and precedents to ensure this can never happen again.</p><p>We are working with allies to try to bring this situation to a rapid conclusion - not least because UNRWA have a vital role to play in providing aid and services in Gaza. We continue to urge Israel and all parties with relevant information to cooperate fully with the independent investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 22051 22052 22053 22054 question first answered 19/04/2024 13:25:48 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1701278

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	UNRWA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, pursuant to the Answer of 15 April 2024 to Question 20677 on UNRWA: Finance and with reference to the measures and conditions set out in correspondence published by the EU Commissioner on 6 March 2024, whether (a) he and (b) the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs has had discussions with UNRWA to (i) seek similar assurances and (ii) ascertain the detailed undertakings relating to changes in personnel, policy and precedents.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	22051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>We are appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned.</p><p>We are aware that the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna have now provided their interim reports to the UN Secretary-General</p><p>We want UNRWA to give detailed undertakings about changes in personnel, policy and precedents to ensure this can never happen again.</p><p>We are working with allies to try to bring this situation to a rapid conclusion - not least because UNRWA have a vital role to play in providing aid and services in Gaza. We continue to urge Israel and all parties with relevant information to cooperate fully with the independent investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 22050 22052 22053 22054 question first answered 19/04/2024 13:25:48 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1701279

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	UNRWA: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what (a) criteria he is using and (b) conditions he has set for UNRWA to determine the resumption of funding to that organisation; and what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the interim reports of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	22052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>We are appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned.</p><p>We are aware that the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna have now provided their interim reports to the UN Secretary-General</p><p>We want UNRWA to give detailed undertakings about changes in personnel, policy and precedents to ensure this can never happen again.</p><p>We are working with allies to try to bring this situation to a rapid conclusion - not least because UNRWA have a vital role to play in providing aid and services in Gaza. We continue to urge Israel and all parties with relevant information to cooperate fully with the independent investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 22050 22051 22053 22054 question first answered 19/04/2024 13:25:48 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1701280

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Hamas: UNRWA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 18736 on Hamas: UNRWA, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Israel's cooperation with the investigations carried out by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna; and whether the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs has had discussions with his Israeli counterpart on that country's cooperation with those investigations.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	22053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>We are appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned.</p><p>We are aware that the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna have now provided their interim reports to the UN Secretary-General</p><p>We want UNRWA to give detailed undertakings about changes in personnel, policy and precedents to ensure this can never happen again.</p><p>We are working with allies to try to bring this situation to a rapid conclusion - not least because UNRWA have a vital role to play in providing aid and services in Gaza. We continue to urge Israel and all parties with relevant information to cooperate fully with the independent investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 22050 22051 22052 22054 question first answered 19/04/2024 13:25:48 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1701281

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	UNRWA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, with reference to the Note to Correspondents on the Independent Review of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) of 20 March 2024, what assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy of the mechanisms and procedures UNRWA has in place to ensure compliance with the Humanitarian Principle of neutrality and (b) potential implications of that Note for his policies towards UNRWA; and if will resume funding to UNRWA.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	22054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>We are appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned.</p><p>We are aware that the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna have now provided their interim reports to the UN Secretary-General</p><p>We want UNRWA to give detailed undertakings about changes in personnel, policy and precedents to ensure this can never happen again.</p><p>We are working with allies to try to bring this situation to a rapid conclusion - not least because UNRWA have a vital role to play in providing aid and services in Gaza. We continue to urge Israel and all parties with relevant information to cooperate fully with the independent investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 22050 22051 22052 22053 question first answered 19/04/2024 13:25:48 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1700947

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Israel and Palestinians: Aid Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the safety of aid workers operating in (a) Israel and (b) Palestine.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	21568
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has called on Israel to reform its deconfliction mechanism to ensure the safety of aid workers and to make progress on the UN's minimal operating requirements, including more visas and driver approvals granted, as well as more trucks permitted to cross into Gaza.</p><p>The Prime Minister set out the need for more aid to enter Gaza in his call with Prime Minister Netanyahu on 2 April, and that far too many aid workers and ordinary civilians have lost their lives.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 21569 21570 question first answered 18/04/2024 16:18:49 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1700948

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what steps his Department is taking to help implement effective deconfliction in Gaza in order to facilitate the safe delivery of humanitarian aid.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	21569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has called on Israel to reform its deconfliction mechanism to ensure the safety of aid workers and to make progress on the UN's minimal operating requirements, including more visas and driver approvals granted, as well as more trucks permitted to cross into Gaza.</p><p>The Prime Minister set out the need for more aid to enter Gaza in his call with Prime Minister Netanyahu on 2 April, and that far too many aid workers and ordinary civilians have lost their lives.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 21568 21570 question first answered 18/04/2024 16:18:49 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1700950

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of reports that a UNICEF humanitarian convoy was hit by live ammunition in northern Gaza on 9 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	21570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has called on Israel to reform its deconfliction mechanism to ensure the safety of aid workers and to make progress on the UN's minimal operating requirements, including more visas and driver approvals granted, as well as more trucks permitted to cross into Gaza.</p><p>The Prime Minister set out the need for more aid to enter Gaza in his call with Prime Minister Netanyahu on 2 April, and that far too many aid workers and ordinary civilians have lost their lives.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell grouped question UIN 21568 21569 question first answered 18/04/2024 16:18:49 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1700984

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	East Africa: Food Supply
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what recent assessment he has made of the food security situation in East Africa; and what steps his Department is taking to alleviate the problems.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	21524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer // answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered // answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1701168

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Israel and Occupied Territories: Aid Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what recent assessment he has made of the level of risk to the safety of aid workers in (a) Israel and (b) the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and what steps he is taking to help protect (i) international aid agencies and (ii) their employees from (A) threats and (B) other hindrance.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	uin	21871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has called on Israel to reform its deconfliction mechanism to ensure the safety of aid workers and to make progress on the UN's minimal operating requirements, including more visas and driver approvals granted, as well as more trucks permitted to cross into Gaza.</p><p>The Prime Minister set out the need for more aid to enter Gaza in his call with Prime Minister Netanyahu on 2 April, and that far too many aid workers and ordinary civilians have lost their lives.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 18/04/2024 16:16:00 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome