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Lords Chamber
Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) peaceful protest”.Let me be clear to this House: the right to peaceful protest is a fundamental part - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) We do not need to add them to the schedule to make them criminal offences. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) This measure does not prohibit or restrict peaceful protest. - Speech Link
4: None say to individuals protesting in a way that crosses the line of peaceful protest, “Do not do this. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) I guess that he may not, as he is not required so to do. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) not seek to ban protest, nor to diminish the right to peaceful assembly. - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) We all value the right to protest, but rights are not a shield for criminality. - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) to things that people do not want to hear. - Speech Link
5: Lord Young of Acton (Con - Life peer) Just as we do not have a right not to be offended, we do not have a right not to be insulted.I close - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) who do not want to be recognised at a protest by their parents? - Speech Link
2: None , so that the right to protest is upheld to the same point that the rights to enjoy life or to not have - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) They do, however, ensure that, in protecting the ability to protest, we do not trample the rights of - Speech Link
4: None They also impose positive obligations on the state to enable peaceful protest to take place, not to hollow - Speech Link
5: Lord Pannick (XB - Life peer) Yes, protest, but you do not have to do it in the same place, along the same street, every week. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 13 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) democracy trumps protest—you can still protest if you want to, but do not block access to Parliament.I - Speech Link
2: None I do not want them to fall under this problem. - Speech Link
3: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) to proscription that does not involve the Terrorism Act and does not involve branding peaceful protest - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Israel: Trade - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We should celebrate that success and do all we can to bring our two countries closer together. - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) To those demonstrators, I say this: you have no right to protest until those whom you champion do what - Speech Link
3: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) I hasten to add that I do not agree that we should—personally, I think that we should be congratulating - Speech Link
4: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) I am afraid I do not think our Government are fully facing up to that brutal and unfortunate reality.When - Speech Link
5: Lord Stockwood (Lab - Life peer) to play our part in supporting not just the implementation of phase 1 of the peace initiative but the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Human Rights Abuses: Magnitsky Sanctions - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) I really do not know the answer to that question. All I can say to my hon. - Speech Link
2: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) human rights law to ensure that civilians do not suffer, particularly in the light of provisional measures - Speech Link
3: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) tools that we already have to deny the human rights abusers and kleptocrats access to our financial - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I do not want to comment on them, but I do want to assure hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I do not want to be naive. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) Protestors can have their right to protest, but they do not have to worry about the rights of the poor - Speech Link
3: Lord Goodman of Wycombe (Con - Life peer) He wrote:“The Human Rights Act 1998 does not refer to a ‘Right to Protest’ – the relevant rights are - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) protest—whereas the Article 10 and Article 11 rights do bear on it but not as directly as our amendment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 05 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) I could not be clearer: we do not want to see hotels in Bournemouth used for this purpose. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) We need to make sure that we do not have illegal meat coming into the country. - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) I do not propose to change the basis on which those deprivation powers are used. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) whereby applicants do not have to attend in person to be tested. - 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) Those principles are not museum pieces; they are the foundations of our daily freedoms to meet, to protest - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) out our belief in and commitment to human rights and our common humanity. - Speech Link
3: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) Human rights are not just abstract ideas; they shape our daily lives, protect our freedoms and help our - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond and Northallerton) to deepen our co-operation with our Five Eyes partners in this domain, not least because I know at first - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We continue to do so and to support the role that they play in our country, and that will continue. - Speech Link
3: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) The hindrances to the provision of humanitarian aid are not just to do with supplies and the trickle - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) to not just our UK steel industry but manufacturing across the UK and the EU? - Speech Link
5: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) As MPs, we have a duty to represent those who have lived in our constituencies, but we do not know who - Speech Link