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An important part of our responsibilities as the Security Council in delivering Sustainable Development Goal 16 is having a broad enough definition of the threats to international peace and security, not to encroach on the responsibilities of other parts of the UN system, but to join up with them.

We said in our last report in February that, in the absence of economic shocks or other strong evidence, we thought that the default for the NLW would be a straight line rolling path to the 60 per cent target - spreading our (annually updated) estimate of the increase in relative value needed to hit the target evenly over the remaining years to 2020. Our recommendation today reflects this approach, but the cash level is somewhat lower than expected in the spring when we projected £7.64 for April 2017. This reflects automatic adjustment in the level of the NLW target in view of weaker pay growth and forecast pay growth.

And we won’t be doing this alone. Through this project we hope to raise nearly $500 million from the private sector, including companies with a high dependency on water, as well as from national governments and development banks, so that together we can plan and construct water infrastructure for communities within SADC member states.

Mr Speaker, this package means that over the course of this Parliament, the government expects to more than double, in real terms, annual capital spending on housing.

“We know there are thousands of passengers welcomed in the UK from Uruguay each year and the Registered Traveller Service offers them faster entry when they arrive at our border.