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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Last week Ram Mandir was consecrated in Ayodhya—the birthplace of Lord Ram—in Uttar Pradesh in India. - Speech Link
2: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) The Leader of the House will know that under article 9 our rights to freedom of religious worship are - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) This week, as is mostly the case, my question is focused on the persecution of religious groups across - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None I am suggesting would strengthen the freedom of the press, rather than weakening it. - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) She said:“In 2003 ITV successfully lobbied Ofcom for its PSB quotas for arts and religious content to - Speech Link
3: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) Earlier this week, Ben Stokes said that England’s test win over India was his “greatest triumph” since - Speech Link
4: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) because I think that this country would have wanted to see the remarkable parts of the test match in India - Speech Link
5: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) We have put forward measures in the Bill to give Channel 4 greater freedom. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Eritrea ranks towards the bottom of the world press freedom index. - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) partners at a number of levels to ensure credible monitoring not only of the violence and threats against religious - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) I understand that my noble Friend the Foreign Secretary will shortly be visiting India, our friend and - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) Friend that the UK Government have a broad and deep partnership with the Government of India. - Speech Link
5: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) Because his voice of freedom is such a threat to Putin. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) there is potential for and actual massive cultural damage in conflict, including the destruction of religious - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) This year’s theme is the fragility of freedom. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) There was a huge parade in India, with President Macron of France as the chief guest. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) Non-governmental organisations and Government representatives from the International Religious Freedom - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) persecution—India and Pakistan. - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Member for Strangford also raised points about India. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) However, the lion’s share of the responsibility for protecting international freedom of navigation in - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) collapse of the Ottoman empire, North Yemen was ruled by the Imamate, a theocratic polity led by the religious - Speech Link
3: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) Article 51 of the UN charter is absolute on the legal right to self-defence for maritime freedom. - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) disputes with complex origins, whether that be the interference of colonial powers in the past; communal, religious - Speech Link
5: Flick Drummond (Con - Meon Valley) in the area around Yemen predates the Suez canal because of its place in our original sea route to India - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) the streets of Luton and in all our constituencies.Since having their independent status revoked by India - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) The Supreme Court of India is awaiting a decision on whether his life sentence will be changed to a death - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) world being persecuted for their faith, which I will address in tomorrow’s Westminster Hall debate on religious - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Our long-standing position on Kashmir is that it is for India and Pakistan to find a lasting political - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghanistan: UK Government Policy - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Many of the rank and file receive little religious training. - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) The reasons for that are probably more related to Pakistan’s relations with countries such as India, - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Member for Strangford for his unstinting work in supporting freedom of religion or belief around the - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) Do they include the freedom of religion or belief, which has been mentioned, and basics around human - Speech Link
5: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Limitations on women’s rights to education, work and freedom of expression have taken a terrible toll - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024 - Wed 10 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) since the agreement with India came into effect? - Speech Link
2: Ben Bradshaw (Lab - Exeter) assessment was made of the safety of LGBT people in the face of that violence, often from families, religious - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Human Rights Watch has said that there have been 31,677 cases of rape in a year in India. - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) journalists.Reporters Without Borders, which the NUJ works with, draws up and publishes an annual world press freedom - Speech Link
5: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Yes, it does relate to India as a whole. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases - Tue 09 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He and I are often side by side in debates on issues that are of interest to us—whether freedom of religious - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) and so on, so it would be wonderful to see more manufacturing, perhaps through the Serum Institute of India - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) relationship feeds into church and other community groups across Scotland working together to support religious - Speech Link