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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:39 am on 9 March 2017.

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Photo of Mark Pritchard Mark Pritchard Conservative, The Wrekin 10:39, 9 March 2017

In his statement, the Leader of the House said that there would be a debate on the Department for International Development’s programme in Nigeria. He will know that there is an impending famine in eastern Nigeria. I wonder whether we could have a wider debate on the famines in Yemen and Somalia, and the famine in South Sudan that the World Food Programme has just announced, and on how DFID’s programme could do more to prevent conflict rather than just resolving it, given that conflict is a driver of those famines.