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Commons Chamber
Human Rights: Xinjiang - Thu 22 Apr 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) Uyghur women, the treatment of Tibetans, the appalling treatment of inner Mongolians, the treatment - Speech Link
2: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) It pains me that millions of Uyghur Muslims are facing some of the harshest abuses that one can imagine - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) China is guilty of abusing not just its own people, but the planet, more than any other nation on this - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) In this holy period of Ramadan, Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province in China are being enslaved, - Speech Link
5: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) Bench called on the Government to impose Magnitsky-style sanctions on officials responsible last year - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights Update - Tue 23 Mar 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None “With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a Statement about the treatment of the Uighur Muslims - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) China has responded with its own sanctions on European officials, but I note that one official said that - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, the joint UK-China communiqué on the occasion of President Xi addressing both Houses of Parliament - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) over 1 million Muslims in China. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) For example, the United States of America has on its list the governor of Xinjiang province, Mr Chen - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Human Rights Update - Mon 22 Mar 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims - Speech Link
2: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) plight of the Uyghur, despite that mounting evidence over several years. - Speech Link
3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) the issue of the Uyghur Muslims. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Exiting the European Union (Sanctions) - Wed 03 Feb 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) As the House will be aware, on 31 December 2020, the UK took control of its sanctions policy and we now - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) sanctions, perhaps against the fashion industry or on importing cotton from that part of China? - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) the Republic of Cyprus or on its continental shelf. - Speech Link
4: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) , human rights and the rule of law.While I of course welcome the roll-over of all these sanctions, I - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) the Uyghur Muslims and China. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade Bill
Consideration of Commons amendmentsPing Pong (Hansard) - Tue 02 Feb 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) Parliament needs to have its say. What on earth are the Government afraid of? - Speech Link
2: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (CON - Life peer) While this amendment does not focus solely on China, it is clear that a primary concern of noble Lords - Speech Link
3: None massacre of civilians, its burning of villages, its mass detention of political opponents, and its use - Speech Link
4: None Administration on 19 January regarding the treatment of Uighur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. - Speech Link
5: Lord Polak (CON - Life peer) on the issue of the separation of power. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Consideration of Lords amendmentsPing Pong - Wed 27 Jan 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) In 2018, the imported bodies of political prisoners and human rights abuse victims in China were on display - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) against Falun Gong members, Christians and Uyghur Muslims. - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) and over a quarter of a million jobs. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Xinjiang: Forced Labour - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None the appalling treatment of the Uighurs and to increase diplomatic pressure on China to stop and to remedy - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) commentary on the designation of sanctions. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) because of its asymmetric economic clout.” - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) of global human rights sanctions. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) of conscience in Xinjiang and other parts of China. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade Bill
Consideration of Lords amendmentsPing Pong - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) their contributions on the situation in China and the plight of the Uyghur people. - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) practices are part of a systematic abuse of human rights aimed at millions of Uyghur Muslims. - Speech Link
3: Tom Randall (CON - Gedling) of China and its treatment of ethnic minorities. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) a video of shaven-headed Uyghur Muslims being forcibly loaded on to trains, the video accompanied by - Speech Link
5: Marco Longhi (CON - Dudley North) My contention is that questions of genocide—its definition, its impact over time, and measures for responding - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Global Britain - Mon 11 Jan 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) This year, the Republic of Ireland has again taken its seat on the United Nations Security Council. - Speech Link
2: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) It is no friend of human rights, as we have seen with the Uyghur Muslims. - Speech Link
3: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) With China, there is its abuse of liberties in Hong Kong, its abuse against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) The treatment of our Commonwealth cousins in Ghana is a shame on all of us. - Speech Link
5: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) Britain was one of the handful of countries that had a commitment to spend 0.7% of its GNI on overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Telecommunications (Security) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 30 Nov 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) The key problem has been that China has subsidised its providers dramatically, even over 100% on contract - Speech Link
2: Mark Pritchard (CON - The Wrekin) there is a lot of co-operation and collaboration with China on trade and on climate change, so we agree - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) Subsequently, it has gone on to sanctions: the Chinese has now broken WTO rules, with sanctions of more - Speech Link
4: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) as illustrated in the crackdown in Hong Kong, the terrible treatment of the Uyghur minority and its - Speech Link
5: Matt Warman (CON - Boston and Skegness) human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the extrajudicial detention of over 1 million Uyghur Muslims - Speech Link