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Commons Chamber
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 26 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) are held not only in this place but throughout the country and internationally.Members of a number of overseas - Speech Link
2: Sara Britcliffe (Con - Hyndburn) fully support them in their operations and in their aims, strengthening democracy and humanitarian aid - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) around the world, whether following Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, or the horrific turmoil in the middle - Speech Link
4: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy), and by my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) We grew up in the shadow of terrorism, at home and overseas. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) about 20% lower than the market rate, primarily to lower-income households in London and the south-east - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) Women’s Aid points to the lack of affordable housing as a primary barrier to those escaping abuse.Yet - Speech Link
4: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) Wales.I think the inadequacy of the UK’s housing provision, adversely affecting most in our society—the middle - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sudan: Government Response - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) On behalf of the UK, he pledged £89 million, a near-doubling of UK overseas development aid for Sudan - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) We heard of 5 million people on the brink of famine, of aid convoys being held at gunpoint, of aid being - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) We regularly talk about what is going on in Ukraine and the middle east, but we do not focus on the continent - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Amendment 26, is the implication for charitable organisations delivering public functions in terms of overseas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Therefore, the ban would not restrict how such bodies decide, for example, to distribute humanitarian aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) As an example, if a young people’s badminton team were to be taking a tour of south-east Asia and felt - Speech Link
4: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) The Institute for Middle East Understanding has set out a long list of allegations of environmental misconduct - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) is why it is sitting on so much of the food supply; that is why there are lorries waiting to deliver aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) having two leaders of moral stature who were prepared to talk to each other, which we do not have in the Middle - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and that those powers enable fair and equal treatment of overseas - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The Government agree and say that this is a terrible problem, that it is confusing for our partners overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) really indicates the ripple effect of what the Government are doing: other countries are praying in aid - Speech Link
2: William Cash (Con - Stone) law—I have never taken a different view—but in his speech Lord Coaker compared what is going on in the middle - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) included on the face of the Bill and our obligations to those who have helped us and our armed forces overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Middle East: Deployment of British Armed Forces - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) I hope the Labour Benches are focusing on this.In a more serious vein, the Middle East situation is extremely - Speech Link
2: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) Will the Minister confirm that it was three British-supplied drones that killed three British aid workers - Speech Link
3: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the last time that tensions rose in the Middle East, which sadly ended up with fighting going - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Heappey (Con - Wells) In the Euro-Atlantic, we face the challenge of Russia; in the middle east, the challenge of Iran and - Speech Link
2: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) shipments to the middle east. - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) The UK Government’s ability to deliver humanitarian aid depends on the UK’s relationship with its middle - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I have visited the majority of countries in the middle east and Gulf region to discuss exactly the points - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) Friend the Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) said, because we are seeing real reduction in some - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) and canned hunting, which includes Action for Primates, A-LAW, Animal Defenders International, Animal Aid - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) I am in the middle of a quote, but I think the President will forgive me for allowing the hon. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) made the point well about taking photographs - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) the import ban will not prevent a UK resident or citizen from participating in hunting while they are overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Iran and its proxies are destabilising the middle east, and, via the Houthis, pose a constant threat - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) In a world with increasing Iranian-inspired violence in the middle east, sulphurous threats over Taiwan - Speech Link
3: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Scanning across Europe, south-east Asia and the middle east, we see that this is a world where there - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) That comes back to what we used to call the defence planning assumptions about how many operational overseas - Speech Link
5: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) to Ukraine within our overall aid package worth almost £12 billion. - Speech Link