Andrew Mitchell raises concerns about the situation in Ethiopia where 2 million people have now been driven from their homes over the border into Sudan with many facing starvation and calls on the Government to urgently provide more humanitarian aid to the region.
Andrew Mitchell leads an Emergency Debate on the cuts to Britain’s development budget which will fall first and hardest on the humanitarian sectors; specifically girls’ education, clean water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS and food assistance.
Andrew Mitchell raises a Point of Order following the Speaker’s decision that his proposed New Clause 4 for the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) Bill was outside the scope of the Bill and consequently not selected for debate.
Andrew Mitchell calls on the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to meet a cross-party delegation of West Midlands metropolitan leaders who are keen to work with him on the continued roll out the vaccination programme and saving lives.
During the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s statement opening the second day of the debate on the Queen’s Speech, Andrew Mitchell intervenes to ask if the Chancellor will restore the 0.7% target for international development spending at the end of the year when the economy has recovered to the extent the he predicts?
Andrew Mitchell welcomes the Prime Minister’s announcement of an independent public inquiry into the Government’s response to the covid pandemic and calls on the Government to put more emphasis on personal judgment and common sense as greater normality returns.
Following the Court of Appeal judgment to quash the convictions of 39 postmasters, Andrew Mitchell condemns the scandal as “grotesque breach of the human rights and civil liberties” and urges the Government to ensure that the inquiry considers in full all the available evidence.