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Commons Chamber
Middle East: UK Military Deployments - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman also asked about British forces in the wider region who may be in, for example, Syria or Iraq - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) It is important that Israel abides by the law of armed conflict, but in that context I welcome the deployment - Speech Link
3: Mark Pritchard (Con - The Wrekin) aircraft, but it is unarmed in a region that has Iranian proxies with quite good capabilities, as well as Syria - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) into a regional conflict. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) What steps he is taking to encourage de-escalation of the conflict in Israel and Gaza. - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) two-state solution, which is official British policy and is something that the world must do as this conflict - Speech Link
3: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) Can the Secretary of State explain why, within two weeks of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, nearly - Speech Link
4: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) The Ukraine conflict has reinforced the need for a thriving defence industry to underpin our security - Speech Link
5: Mark Logan (Con - Bolton North East) Not doing so will only escalate the conflict. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) Most conflicts of the last 20 years remain unresolved—Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LD - Life peer) Wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine have caused huge human disasters, killing millions - Speech Link
3: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) They came mostly from what is now Syria and Lebanon. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Many are living in fear of being killed, injured, recruited or used by armed actors, and conflict-related - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) Tougher sentencing, more money for our armed forces, and more doctors, nurses and dentists, to name but - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) policy and justice for those hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees living in camps in Jordan, Syria - Speech Link
3: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) If someone calls for a ceasefire to that conflict, they are somehow labelled an extremist, and we have - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) brave and fearless few—who, on behalf of 66 million people, stand forward to take on people who are armed - Speech Link
2: Lord Roberts of Llandudno (LD - Life peer) It might be to Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Gaza or even our fellow nations of the UK. - Speech Link
3: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) point for all family support services, including those which help parents and children to manage the conflict - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) to in order to keep our oil flowing.Moving on to more topical matters such as the Israel and Hamas conflict - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We are on the side of Britain’s armed forces. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I declare my interests in relation to the armed forces in Ukraine and my role as co-chair of the LGBT - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Climate change not only causes fires, floods and food shortages, but fuels conflict. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Report stage - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) I am certain that its democratic and legal institutions will hold its armed forces rigorously to account - Speech Link
2: None general co-ordinator of the BDS national committee is Mahmoud Nawajaa, who has publicly supported Hamas’s armed - Speech Link
3: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) opposition to Israel’s right to exist as a state of the Jewish people and has endorsed Palestinian armed - Speech Link
4: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) conflict in respect of which intense diplomacy is required. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Israel/Gaza - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The law of armed conflict requires that in every attack posing a risk to civilian life, that risk must - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 21 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) In particular, the development of the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law has imposed - Speech Link
2: Lord Harrington of Watford (CON - Life peer) If it is not Syria or Afghanistan, it will be somewhere else. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Oxford and Asquith (CB - Excepted Hereditary) bravery and inventive skills of the Ukrainian armed forces during this conflict, it is an open secret - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2023 - Thu 14 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) military force on behalf of the Russian state, operating in a range of theatres including Ukraine, Syria - Speech Link
2: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) The sad fact is that war, armed conflict, is a terrible thing. - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) We know that Wagner has a record of violence, theft and murder, from Ukraine to Syria, from Mali to Mozambique - Speech Link