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Commons Chamber
Africa: New Approach - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) spirit of goodwill, may I congratulate the Government on changing and updating the UK language on the Western - Speech Link
2: Hamish Falconer (Lab - Lincoln) I know the House will be aware both of the shift in position on Western Sahara announced by the previous - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Western Sahara Conflict - Mon 27 Oct 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Godson (Con - Life peer) they are taking, in coordination with allies, to address the risks posed by Iranian influence in the Western - Speech Link
2: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) Sahara to work with one of our oldest allies, and that the Polisario Front has now withdrawn from the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) This matters for the stability of not just Western Sahara but the entire region. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
USAID Funding Pause - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brian Mathew (LD - Melksham and Devizes) China and Russia are expanding their influence in regions where western credibility is weakening. - Speech Link
2: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) International Women’s Day earlier this year, Liberation organised for women from Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Gaza and Western - Speech Link


Written Statements
UK-Morocco Partnership and Regional Stability - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) United Kingdom’s deepening partnership with the Kingdom of Morocco, and our new position towards Western - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 01 Apr 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) operations and missions as we strengthen the UK-EU security and defence relationship, including in the western - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) to act, as the French and American Governments have done, to support Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Western Sahara - Wed 30 Oct 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) I am grateful for this opportunity to raise the issue of the Government’s attitude to Western Sahara. - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) Coming back to Western Sahara, could the right hon. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Our current stance on Western Sahara now threatens opportunities in Dakhla Atlantic port. - Speech Link
4: Hamish Falconer (Lab - Lincoln) Sahara, MINURSO—United Nations mission for the referendum in Western Sahara—for another 12 months. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Access to Primary Healthcare - Wed 16 Oct 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) of Norfolk has been allowed to become a dental desert—or, as the Secretary of State has said,“the Sahara - Speech Link
2: Joe Morris (Lab - Hexham) Whether before the election or since, whether I am out in Throckley in the western reaches of Newcastle - Speech Link
3: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) ) reminded us that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care had described Norfolk as the Sahara - Speech Link
4: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) desert; if Norfolk is the eastern Sahara, Somerset and Devon are the western Sahara of dental deserts - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Strategic Defence Review - Wed 09 Oct 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Alderdice (LD - Life peer) The defence of our own people, our own country and our region, western Europe, is our greatest responsibility - Speech Link
2: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) In the Middle East, the South China Sea and the Sahel and the sub-Sahara, we see higher tension and terror - Speech Link
3: Lord Walney (XB - Life peer) to call it—which has been growing remorselessly, which is not fazed by much of what the UK and its western - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) This comes after devastating flooding in western central Africa, which displaced hundreds of thousands - Speech Link
5: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) have to bear in mind that we need long-term thinking but also to be ready to adapt.The UK and other western - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 03 Sep 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) One such issue relates to our Great Western Railway line through Devon. - Speech Link
2: None They include the withdrawal of high-speed trains from Great Western Railway, leading to inter-city trains - Speech Link
3: None , his clarity in chaos and his composure when so many were losing their heads, not to mention his Sahara-dry - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Healthcare Provision: East of England - Tue 03 Sep 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) has led to a country with one of the least efficient and most high-cost healthcare systems in the western - Speech Link
2: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) In July, the Secretary of State branded Norwich North the “Sahara of dental deserts”. - Speech Link
3: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) We have the Sahara of dental deserts in the east. - Speech Link