In the Lords

The noble Baroness is absolutely right to highlight this.

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 prescriptiv

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 to b

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 Fore

The financial humanitarian support that is being provided comes from our ODA budget, but I do not believe that we are facing the choice the

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 alw

That is an extremely important point.

The noble Lord makes a key point and although I cannot guarantee that the figures he cited are correct—I will have to put that on the record