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Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Mon 12 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None They relate to British citizenship, British Overseas Territory citizenship, British overseas citizenship - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) citizenship, British Overseas Territories citizenship, British overseas citizenship and British subject - Speech Link
3: None Overseas Territories citizenship. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) That has nothing to do with overseas or from small boats; 41% are for exploitation overseas. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) Clause 6 talks not just about countries or territories that could be added but about parts of a country - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) The situation is very similar to that in the Nationality and Borders Bill, which, Members of the Committee - Speech Link
4: None Last year’s Nationality and Borders Bill threatened seafarers with life imprisonment for unknowingly - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Overseas Territories - Thu 11 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) I beg to move,That this House is committed to upholding the interests of British Overseas Territories - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) Territories; and calls upon the Government to ensure that British Overseas Territories citizens’ rights - Speech Link
3: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) I am glad that last year an amendment that I tabled to the Nationality and Borders Bill righted that - Speech Link
4: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) We have talked about the value of all the overseas territories as part of the British family. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Register of Overseas Entities (Definition of Foreign Limited Partner, Protection and Rectification) Regulations 2023 - Tue 02 May 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) discover that the overwhelming majority of individuals identified as beneficial owners so far were British - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) territories officially under British sovereignty but with other offshore financial centres which do - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (CON - Excepted Hereditary) the title numbers of the properties held by overseas entities. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage- - Wed 26 Apr 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) without permission.(2) Within this section, “specified countries” are defined as those countries or territories - Speech Link
2: None (2) Within this section, “specified countries” are defined as those countries or territories to which - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None ownership of companies registered in British Overseas Territories), after subsection (5) insert—“(5A - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) territories; I was unable to discover why the other overseas territories in which we have military bases - Speech Link
3: None Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
4: None Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
5: None Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
7: None Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
8: None Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
9: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
10: None Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
11: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
12: None Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
13: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) Overseas Territories that they must do what this Parliament says? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees when considering whether to add new countries or territories - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) national overseas visa scheme? - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) and have given examples of those exceptional circumstances, such as to reunite a child with family overseas - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) their own British citizenship. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Mon 27 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) The amendment would require the nationality and country of residence of subscribers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) I have therefore tabled two later amendments: one concerns the Crown dependencies and the overseas territories - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) territories and revealing beneficiaries there. - Speech Link
4: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) It was eventually uncovered that the company that owned the warehouse was a British-registered company - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House (day 1) - Mon 27 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: William Cash (CON - Stone) ensure that we are compliant with our international obligations and that we would not send somebody overseas - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) Of course, the Ukraine scheme, the British national overseas scheme and the Afghan scheme—when it used - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) I had a meeting this afternoon with about 60 Hong Kong British national overseas passport holders who - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) the will of this House and the will of our Government being impeded, and indeed frustrated, by those overseas - Speech Link
5: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) A few years ago, we had the Nationality and Borders Bill and others. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Commonwealth Day - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: James Duddridge (CON - Rochford and Southend East) , working with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and also work on the issues around overseas - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) However, nearly half a million UK pensioners overseas are excluded from annual payment upratings because - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) SNP opposed the Immigration Bill when it went through Parliament and also opposed the anti-refugee Nationality - Speech Link