In Parliament

Andrew Mitchell calls on the Government to match the £2.5 billion that the previous Government added to the 0.5% official development assistance (ODA) budget, to cover the costs of first-year asylum seekers which are paid for out of the ODA budget.

Following the United States’ determination of genocide in Sudan Andrew Mitchell tables an Urgent Question to call for British international leadership, as the penholder on Sudan at the United Nations, to confront genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan and do everything possible to bring this indescribable horror to an end.

Andrew Mitchell calls on the Government to end the use of the Ramada hotel on Penns Lane for housing asylum seekers as it is too far away from inner-city Birmingham-based services.

Andrew Mitchell explains why he has changed his mind on this issue since he first entered the House of Commons and how he now strongly supports the bill and giving people this choice.

Andrew Mitchell reminds the Government on the importance of overseas development spending and soft power for our national security at a time “when the world is more dangerous than at any time in our lives”.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell tables an Urgent Question on Sudan. Sudan is currently the largest humanitarian crisis, hunger crisis and displacement crisis in the world and, as penholder on Sudan at the United Nations Security Council, the UK has a special responsibility to accelerate international efforts to find a solution.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell responds to the Government statement on the middle east.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell questions the Government on the situation in the middle east and on efforts to combat the weaponising of disinformation.

Following the Government’s agreement with Mauritius to hand over sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), Shadow Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell questions the Minister for the Overseas Territories on the new deal with the Government of St Helena to house any migrants arriving in BIOT in the interim period.