In the Lords

In reverse order, I am going to have to refer the noble Viscount to a previous answer—that it is not for the UK Government to be prescrip

I strongly agree with the right reverend Prelate’s remarks.

I apologise for the length of my previous answer—I have not fully mastered the protocols of this format, and I thought that I was meant t

I thank the noble Lord for his comments.

The noble Lord is forgiven.

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made earlier to the other place by my right honourable friend the F

It is a very valuable suggestion, but I cannot unilaterally make decisions of the sort that would be needed at the Dispatch Box.

I said earlier that the humanitarian funding comes from the ODA budget, as all humanitarian funding relating to all humanitarian crises

My Lords, in addition to the financial support that I mentioned in my first Answer, the UK has more than 320 staff now working on the res

My noble friend is absolutely right.