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

Mentions:
1: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) , the Red sea, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria or Jordan, we are seeing aggression. - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) prosecutor told the UN Security Council that there are reasonable grounds to believe that both the Sudan armed - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Women are unequally affected in conflict. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Women bear the brunt of poverty, conflict and starvation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) International Agreements Committee by Rwanda’s rejection rate for asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Syria - Speech Link
2: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) countries, but can anybody mention a safe country that would take refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) I do not think that many of us could live in Syria, Afghanistan or anywhere else on a salary of about - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) The government provided support to and coordinated with the March 23 Movement … armed group, which forcibly - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Christians are Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Syria - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) Days later, on 5 November, an armed group attacked a Muslim celebration in the Musawa area of Katsina - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) I will touch briefly on Syria. - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) by Iran; Hezbollah in Lebanon, funded and armed by Iran; or the Houthis in Yemen, funded and armed by - Speech Link
3: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) It is strongly aligned to the regime in Syria. - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) mentioned Syria. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) They have advocated for the repeal of the public safety act and the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Figures show that more journalists have died in this conflict than in every conflict since the second - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) That conflict is an open wound. - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) We targeted individuals linked to authorities in Belarus, Haiti, Iran and Syria for their repressive - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Action Against Houthi Maritime Attacks - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) Over the past week, we have seen missile strikes in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria and, of course - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We have committed more than £1 billion in aid since the conflict began in 2014. - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) the moment, we see Houthi attacks continuing, the Popular Mobilisation Units attacking US bases in Syria - Speech Link
4: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) Can the Prime Minister say more about what will be done for armed convoys and how we will restore confidence - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We will always ensure that our armed forces have the investment that they need, and under this and previous - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defending the UK and Allies - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) We have seen attacks on US soldiers in Syria and Iraq, the terrorism of Islamic State in Iran, the rockets - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) Can I join him in paying tribute to our brave armed forces? - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) have been killed, and there has been cross-border fighting with Hezbollah, air raids in Lebanon and Syria - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) forces in armed conflict, even if it is retrospective. - Speech Link
5: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) There is greater conflict in the middle east now than there has been for many years—in Lebanon, Syria - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) You could not make it up: we have trafficking and torture victims and Afghans who helped our armed forces - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) In April, conflict broke out in Sudan. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) only 228 decisions on asylum claims in 2020, and rejected claims from countries such as Afghanistan, Syria - Speech Link
4: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) that they can return and rebuild when the conflict ends. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Arms Export Licences: Israel - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) More than 100 UN aid workers have been killed— more than in any conflict in UN history. - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) conflicts that have caused instability and forced large numbers of people to flee, be they those in Syria - Speech Link
3: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) The defence industry is vital to our national security and to equipping our armed forces and those of - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) At the same time, we must not forget how this conflict started. - Speech Link
5: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) Foreign Secretary did that; they suspended arms exports to NATO-allied Turkey following its invasion of Syria - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) Members will have other countries that they prefer to talk about.Let us take the situation in Syria. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) very unsettled.Examples of groups that are targeted include the Yazidis and groups in Ukraine, Sudan, Syria - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) from armed conflict and should not be responded to in the same fashion.To conclude, we need a national - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) then need to be proactive by using that greater understanding of those driving the violence to press armed - Speech Link