Eric Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what plans his Department has to provide assistance to Burundi for the purposes of meeting its Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme commitments.
Eric Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what recent assessment he has made of food security in Burundi; (2) what assessment his Department has made of the likely effects of climate change on (a) agriculture and (b) food security in Burundi.
Eric Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department has spent on emergency food aid to Burundi in each of the last five years.
Eric Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment his Department has made of the potential role for agricultural development in providing (a) an incentive to desist from conflict and (b) a subsequent peace dividend for the Great Lakes region.
Eric Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether the Scottish Government will receive a budgetary uplift as a consequence of the allocation of £50 million by the Government to the interim cancer drugs fund.
Eric Joyce: The Government have announced an injection of £50 million of new money into the interim cancer drugs fund. Can the Prime Minister say whether there will be Barnett consequentials for Scotland, because that is new money?
Eric Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armed forces personnel have served in Afghanistan since 2001.
Eric Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many armed forces personnel have been diagnosed with (a) active and (b) latent tuberculosis following a tour of duty in Afghanistan since 2001; (2) whether armed forces personnel retiring from tours of duty in Afghanistan are routinely tested for (a) active and (b) latent tuberculosis.
Eric Joyce: Northern Ireland has made remarkable political progress, and that has been integral to the whole peace process. There are many people both inside and outside Northern Ireland who deserve great credit for that. Enormous efforts have been made, as is reflected in the celebrated success to date. For the first time in a generation, the overwhelming majority of people can live peaceful lives free...
Eric Joyce: Yes, of course. The votes will take place on the same day, so the arguments that apply to the rest of the UK also apply to Northern Ireland. A particular complication is that, as a consequence of the orders, Northern Ireland will also have local government elections on the same day. Indeed, taken together with the Government's plan for fixed-term Parliaments, the Parliamentary Voting and...
Eric Joyce: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. In the context of the reduced sensitivity to local variables, we believe that the constraints on local inquiries are especially serious. At a time of such significant changes, that is particularly important. The political ecology in Northern Ireland is particular; it is different from that in the rest of the United Kingdom. The Government plan to change the...
Eric Joyce: The Minister refers to the recovery of remains, which is a painful reminder of the need to deal with the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland. If the Secretary of State decides to place any new obligations on the Historical Enquiries Team, will he ensure that it is fully and properly funded to undertake them?
Eric Joyce: I should like to begin by thanking colleagues and Members of the House for their friendly comments and advice in the past few days since I took up this new job. It is a great privilege to be winding up in a debate of such historical importance. We have heard many powerful contributions today, and a great deal of moving personal testimony that has reflected the experience of many Members...
Eric Joyce: I thank my hon. Friend and take note of what he says. I take pleasure in agreeing with his comments about our right hon. Friend the Member for Torfaen. Much has been said during the debate about future inquiries. Labour Members recognise that there will be a demand for them, although we have to bear in mind the important cost implications. Of course, we think that the Government should come...
Eric Joyce: I think that I am slightly older than the hon. Gentleman, so that is very nice of him. I recall the interview vividly. The hon. Member for Newark, who was working as a journalist on "Today", had persuaded Colonel Wilford to appear on the programme. It was staggering that, after all those years and after everyone's questions about Widgery, he did not regret anything for a moment. That was the...
Eric Joyce: Is what my hon. Friend has just described not simply a corollary? Someone goes along with their credit card to buy a product and the information is known to Experian, which sells that information. Is it not just a case of people transferring their behaviours online? We are talking about the same stuff. We should perhaps not be too afraid of the fact we are behaving the same way on the...
Eric Joyce: The Prime Minister has mentioned a reduction in service numbers. Can he give us his assurance that that will not involve the use of manning control points as a cheap alternative to proper redundancy payments?
Eric Joyce: I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. Does he not think that Labour should conduct its own review in opposition and include Trident in it?
Eric Joyce: I listened with great interest to the speech of the hon. Member for Portsmouth North (Penny Mordaunt). She certainly advanced a sophisticated argument for the interests of the Navy and she should be congratulated on listening so carefully to her predecessor, Sir Roger. However, I am not sure about all of that knights on chargers stuff-I am always a bit sceptical about all that. I thought she...
Eric Joyce: I enjoy giving way to the hon. Gentleman. He made an excellent speech earlier, and I will come to him in a moment; the second part of my speech is on Afghanistan. Although I may not be qualified to say this, the position of successive Governments on Trident is incoherent militarily; it is political argument. Frankly, the idea that someone can simply pop up in an article in The Guardian or as...
