Meeting of the Parliament 25 June 2025
That work is in progress. In answer to Foysol Choudhury’s question about on-going discussions on the situation in Gaza, I can confirm that, tomorrow, I am meeting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. If UNRWA has specific asks about supplying aid to Gaza, I am sure that members across the chamber will be interested in learning about them, and I will be happy to share that information with members.
Foysol Choudhury will understand that the response to the situation in Gaza is mostly a reserved function. I wish that that was not the case—I wish that Scotland was able to impose an arms export ban, but we cannot. Therefore, I urge him to use his good offices to ask his colleagues in the UK Labour Government to do the decent thing and end all arms export licences to Israel.