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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
4: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
7: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
8: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
9: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) Overseas Territories. - Speech Link
10: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) 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


Lords Chamber
Extradition Act 2003 (Amendment to Designations) Order 2025 - Thu 30 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) national (overseas) passport—an arrangement made after the UK’s 100-year lease of Hong Kong expired - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I hope that satisfies the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton.The British national (overseas) route for Hong - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Jamaica: Hurricane Melissa - Wed 29 Oct 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) We have activated our crisis centre in London to assist British nationals in Jamaica, have deployed response - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) We are keeping in very close contact with our overseas territories in particular, but it also looks as - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) I supported the previous Government’s work to change the OECD rules on overseas development assistance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Corruption: Low and Middle-income Countries - Wed 29 Oct 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) through the international anti-corruption unit to ensure that funds that are being laundered through British - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) territories, such as the British Virgin Islands, where they are concealed in shell companies. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) My noble friend is right to raise the issue of the overseas territories. - Speech Link
4: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) about to raise, I draw attention to my practice at the Bar, which involves some corruption cases overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Ministers have spoken with the Governors of the overseas territories in the region, and we hope that - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) national overseas visa route. - Speech Link
3: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) national overseas visa route. - Speech Link
4: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) The British Council is in dire financial straits. - Speech Link
5: Mark Pritchard (Con - The Wrekin) British national Jimmy Lai is currently in solitary confinement in a prison in Hong Kong. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Committee of the whole House - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) Indian Ocean Territory from the list of British Overseas Territories recognised under the British Nationality - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) They are planning to dissolve a strategically invaluable British overseas territory, and they cannot - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) overseas territories citizenship being awarded on the basis of descent from a person born on the Chagos - Speech Link
4: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) —[Official Report, 2 December 2024; Vol. 758, c. 28.]Indeed, the Minister for the Overseas Territories - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) When we interrogate Reform UK’s plans, we find that they talk about using the British overseas territories - Speech Link
2: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) Reform UK has mooted the idea of using British overseas territories as part of its asylum processing - Speech Link
3: Kevin Bonavia (Lab - Stevenage) territories to host people. - Speech Link
4: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) national overseas visa. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill
2nd reading - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) leadership alongside the Governments of the British overseas territories. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Some of us do care about our British overseas territories and the marine environment. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) overseas territories, which are central to our environmental success story. - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) The Minister for Europe, North America and the overseas territories, my hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
COP30: Food System Transformation - Tue 14 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I have met young people in our overseas territories—part of our British family—who talked about the bleaching - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) For example, I point to British International Investment, which had a $652 million food and agriculture - Speech Link