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Commons Chamber
AUKUS Defence Partnership - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) on a particular mission to their full specification, so Type 31s can be reconfigured for anti-piracy missions - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Will he also explain the longer-term implications of this in stoking up a cold war with China? - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Edwards (IND - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) sanctions have been blunted by the fact that Russia has been able to find other markets with which to trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Science and Technology Framework - Tue 07 Mar 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) Last year, the UK joined only China and the US in having a technology sector worth over $1 trillion. - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) With our ambitious national missions, Labour would stoke the innovation engine to drive high-skilled - Speech Link
3: Greg Clark (CON - Tunbridge Wells) battery technology, which is a responsibility of her Department, of the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
4: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) vaccines taskforce, and we have been deploying those learnings, as we can see from the life sciences missions - Speech Link


Written Statements
Science and Technology Update - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) This is a nation that last year joined only China and the United States by having a tech sector worth - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Independent Review of Net Zero - Thu 09 Feb 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Chris Skidmore (CON - Kingswood) We, too, need 10-year missions. - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) rise of Hindu nationalism makes that relationship even more complicated and difficult.As for communist China - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) The USA and the EU are developing huge financial packages to encourage green investment, and China is - Speech Link
4: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) Other nations, including France, Germany, the US, Japan and China, are already manufacturing, while we - Speech Link
5: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) for Business and Trade, the hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 Feb 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) In recent years, it has been challenged by China, and has had intellectual property issues; its IP has - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) As she knows, we have staff in more than 100 markets, and are building our existing attaché roles in China - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) The fact that we have life science missions will enable us to attract more attention and work to the - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Within the life sciences missions, manufacturing is a key point. - Speech Link
5: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) almost a third from the US, by almost a quarter from the rest of the EU and by more than 10% from China - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Committee stage - Mon 30 Jan 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) Guidance issued by the pension funds trade body—the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association—recommends - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (CON - Life peer) The bulk of Asian markets and those rising in China do not. - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (CB - Excepted Hereditary) There are always trade-offs, of course, but, if done well, encouraging and facilitating the financing - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman (CB - Life peer) indeed take place and filled much of the Minister’s response—about the hierarchy of objectives and missions - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Commonwealth: Zimbabwe - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Leong (LAB - Life peer) becomes dependent on powerful countries that are extending their influence in the region, especially China - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) , that we are accustomed to having debates in this House based on published reports of fact-finding missions - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) Can he tell us what recent engagement has taken place with Zimbabwean civil society, including trade - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) range of stakeholders from the Government, opposition parties, civil society groups and diplomatic missions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Chinese Consul General: Attack on Protesters in Manchester - Tue 20 Dec 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None Indeed, we have been clear with China from the outset that we would take firm action should the police - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) language.That is overt activity, but I am also concerned about covert activity by what remains of the Chinese missions - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) incident is a small part of the gigantic dilemma of our relationship with the People’s Republic of China - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) On broader global challenges, including global health and climate change, China has an important role - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Bed Poverty - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Catherine McKinnell (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne North) The Government recognise that; one of the levelling-up missions is for 90% of primary school age children - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) Studies in China in 2021 found that the quality and length of sleep directly correlated with levels of - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (CON - North East Derbyshire) Member for Luton North talked about a number of studies from China and research has also been carried - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (CON - North East Derbyshire) We need to acknowledge that our decisions have trade-offs and consequences, and we are still living with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Official Development Assistance - Thu 15 Dec 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) years, and is more important than ever in the wake of the war in Ukraine and an increasingly hawkish China - Speech Link
2: Baroness Suttie (LDEM - Life peer) The first recorded cases of Covid-19 happened to be in China, a country with very strong surveillance - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) In the Central African Republic, Russia and China have been steadily intensifying their efforts across - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) Is the aid for trade approach detrimental? - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We will approach this in a proportionate way, empowering experts in our missions and relevant policy - Speech Link