Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:59 pm on 9 February 2016.
The Earl of Courtown
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
2:59,
9 February 2016
On the contrary, my Lords, we are not keeping quiet about this issue at all. Only last week, we had 33 Heads of State and 60 different organisations across the road in the QEII Centre, where we had the Syria conference. At that conference, more than $11 billion was committed to spending in Syria. This is not sitting back and doing nothing.
