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Westminster Hall
UNESCO: 80th Anniversary - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Davies (Lab - Mid Derbyshire) men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed”.Britain and its territories - Speech Link
2: Lisa Smart (LD - Hazel Grove) territories, from neolithic Orkney to the wonderful city of Bath, via Durham’s castle and cathedral, - Speech Link
3: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) The UK is also a signatory to UNESCO conventions on behalf of our overseas territories, yet it is unclear - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) territories and many examples illustrated in the debate today. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 18 Nov 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) My Lords, I first declare my interest as a Friend of the British Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) It is similar to some of our continuing overseas territories in the Atlantic today, visited occasionally - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) Territories citizenship. - Speech Link
4: None to BIOT once BIOT is no longer an overseas territory. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 18 Nov 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) under pressure, the Government are willing, and obliged under this treaty, to transfer British funds overseas - Speech Link
2: None legal certainty would be provided in a context where all the islands, as a self-determined British overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) more particularly, under that category, money that will be deducted from what would otherwise be overseas - Speech Link
4: None It would affect very many countries right across the world and probably all our island overseas territories - Speech Link
5: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Territories and endorsed by Whitestone Insight found that 99% of the 3,389 Chagossians who responded - Speech Link


Written Statements
Integrated Security Fund: Allocations for Financial Year 2025-26 - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) fund, designed to tackle the highest-priority threats to the UK’s national security at home and overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill
Committee of the whole House - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None I should also mention the position of the overseas territories and Crown dependencies. - Speech Link
2: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) Friend well knows, 94% of the UK’s biodiversity lies within the waters of our overseas territories. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) I therefore welcome the Bill’s application to the overseas territories under clause 20—and now, through - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) Serious Fraud Office can be made more effective is through access to more registers of beneficial overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 11 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) After the treaty enters into force, Chagossians will not be able to apply for British Overseas Territories - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Financial Transparency: Overseas Territories - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) I beg to move,That this House has considered the impact of financial secrecy in the Overseas Territories - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) They may come after the overseas territories in the Government’s enforcement action but, like the overseas - Speech Link
3: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) The continued lack of transparency in the overseas tax havens, or overseas territories, including the - Speech Link
4: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) for free.I will review those top three overseas territories. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
2nd reading - Tue 04 Nov 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Our overseas territories family supports it. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of Friends of the British Overseas Territories, and as an - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I declare an interest as a friend of the British Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Some 31 years on from when the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, was the director of the overseas territories - Speech Link
5: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) all our overseas territories. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Hurricane Melissa: UK Response - Tue 04 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) The UK overseas territories of the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands and Bermuda reported low - Speech Link