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

Mentions:
1: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) My question was very simple and it is one to which the British people deserve an answer. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Or, better still, why does the Minister not dump the deal completely and keep Chagos British? - Speech Link
3: Noah Law (Lab - St Austell and Newquay) The British public increasingly feel that development aid has sadly lost its clarity of purpose. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) to ever abolish that most glorious of British symbols: the great British pint? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage - Thu 13 Mar 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Those are the Home Office’s visas and nationality service, the Department for Education’s UK European - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) territories and areas such as the Falklands? - Speech Link
3: None overseas territories. - Speech Link
4: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) British citizens must be safe, and they need a Government who act to protect them. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 Draft Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025 - Mon 03 Mar 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) out immigration and nationality functions for which a fee is to be charged, and the maximum amount, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Detained British Nationals Abroad - Thu 05 Dec 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) In 2023, the FCDO received 188 new allegations of torture and mistreatment from British nationals overseas - Speech Link
2: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) overseas territories exported $134 million worth of goods to Russia in 2024, in an apparent breach of - Speech Link
3: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) The Liberal Democrats stand with all British nationals who have been arbitrarily detained overseas, and - Speech Link
4: Hamish Falconer (Lab - Lincoln) The Foreign Office remains focused on that question.We are assisting 1,400 British nationals overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Nov 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fabian Hamilton (Lab - Leeds North East) They really valued the British Council’s presence, but it had to close owing to funding cuts. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) taxpayer as a result of the rushed deal to give away the British Chagos islands. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The UK and British passport must mean something. - Speech Link
4: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Finally, throughout COP we have been restoring British leadership on climate. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) Friend has a problem with having a British passport. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hezbollah: Threat to the United Kingdom - Tue 05 Nov 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Godson (Con - Life peer) There is a welcome breakdown in that document by nationality but, again, not by proscribed organisation - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) central to it.But we must be clear that such proscription largely is a symbolic gesture, offering British - Speech Link
3: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) to deter and prevent attacks not only here in the UK but across the world and particularly in our British - Speech Link
4: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) , in the wake of the terrorist attack last year.The proscription of any group that could endanger British - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sanctions: Iran - Wed 23 Oct 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) That will include ways in which we can further support UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) British military personnel and equipment helped to defend Israel from an Iranian attack in April, and - Speech Link
3: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) In 2022, security services revealed 10 plots organised by the IRGC in that year alone here on British - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I am in close contact with our overseas territories regarding these issues and have made it clear that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hongkongers in the UK: Visas, Security and Services - Thu 17 Oct 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Connor Rand (Lab - Altrincham and Sale West) national overseas visa scheme. - Speech Link
2: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) national overseas visa scheme. - Speech Link
3: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) national overseas visa scheme. - Speech Link
4: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) The visa has welcomed Hong Kong residents who hold British national overseas status, and their immediate - Speech Link
5: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) This is a doubly egregious issue, because residents from almost all British overseas territories have - Speech Link
6: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) This visa route, which is available to those with British national overseas status and their eligible - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Jul 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) In any question of an arms embargo, I remind him that just a few weeks ago, British arms and military - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) That would secure the best value for money for British taxpayers and also help those most in need. - Speech Link
3: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool Wavertree) What measures are being taken to support British nationals in Bangladesh? - Speech Link
4: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) In 2023, the UK spent £4.3 billion of overseas development assistance on in-donor refugee costs—that - Speech Link
5: Gavin Williamson (Con - Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge) Will the Minister look at where British policy is, to make sure that it reflects the new reality? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
British Nationality (Irish Citizens) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 17 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hay of Ballyore (DUP - Life peer) Under the British Nationality Act 1948, which came into force on 1 January 1949, people born in the Republic - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Belmont (DUP - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link