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Lords Chamber
Democratic Institutions: Threats - Thu 25 Jun 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) The response from the party, which claims to value Christianity, has been a move to cut the churches’ - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) Russia and Iran are rightly included in the enhanced tier, but China is not. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) If the noble Baroness will allow me, I will come to China in a moment. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion or Belief: Sudan - Thu 11 Jun 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The top four or five are the worst places in the world, including North Korea, China and parts of Russia.In - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That is Christianity at work.I would love to see a world in which we can all have different religions - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Those who renounce their Christianity and want to convert, or Muslims who want to convert to Christianity - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion or Belief in China - Wed 18 Mar 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) We have talked consistently about the problems in China. - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) China is petrified that it will face the same. - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) , but we should engage with China from a position of strength. - Speech Link
4: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) have been clear that China must uphold its international obligations. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Town of Culture - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) Duchess China provides its china to the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and Sarah Rose provides - Speech Link
2: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) The north-east is the cradle of Christianity in the UK. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Andrew’s Day and Scottish Affairs - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) Not only do young people have to face the security, technological and economic threat from Iran and China - Speech Link
2: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) Some think that Andrew brought Christianity to Scotland, but that was St Ninian, whose first footfall - Speech Link
3: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) It is one of the founding churches, from when Christianity was brought to Kyiv. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Day 2025 - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Markus Campbell-Savours (Ind - Penrith and Solway) In China, Uyghurs and Tibetans face systemic repression and Hong Kong’s freedoms have been considerably - Speech Link
2: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) everywhere else, religion is a major factor in people’s lives.The world’s largest atheistic state, China - Speech Link
3: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) rights abuses are not a distant history; they are embedded in the modern global economy.We know that China - Speech Link
4: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) work in not just highlighting but challenging positions around religious persecution—whether of Christianity - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Snowden (Con - Fylde) When will this Government stand up to China and address this threat? - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We challenge China robustly in relation to all those threats. - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) Last night, the Prime Minister said some tough things about China. - Speech Link
4: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) China clearly poses national security threats. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion or Belief: UK Foreign Policy - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) Those countries are, in alphabetical order, Afghanistan, Algeria, China, India, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan - Speech Link
2: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) From the Baha’i in Iran to the Uyghurs in China, people across the world are not free to express their - Speech Link
3: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) while recognising that China is an important economic actor in the world that needs to be respected. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) And what about China? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Report stage part two - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) One of the three phials of blood taken stayed in my briefcase as I continued to travel to China on business - Speech Link
2: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) In Christianity, Lord is a title for God or Christ—in other words, a deity. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St George’s Day and English Affairs - Thu 08 May 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) there is no opposition to them, but we are angry that entrepreneurs are importing solar panels from China - Speech Link
2: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) celebration, as the story goes that St George offered to kill the dragon only if the town converted to Christianity - Speech Link