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

Mentions:
1: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) Napier costs the state around £106 per night, which is less than hotels, albeit not drastically so, and - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) The Royal National Lifeboat Institution recalled rescuing children with chemical burns from leaked petrol - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) channel.Finally, we would allow asylum seekers to apply from outside the United Kingdom, whether at our embassies - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Spending Review 2025: Scotland - Wed 02 Jul 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) this time and again, from the mismanagement of ferry contracts to the establishment of overseas embassies - Speech Link
2: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) Member for Dunfermline and Dollar talk about foreign embassies, when he knows fine well that the Welsh - Speech Link
3: Alison Taylor (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Alex Salmond, was very fond of repeating these lines of Burns, although Members will excuse me if I do - Speech Link
4: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) Just ask the constituents who I spoke to on Sunday night in Edinburgh West, who told me that they are - Speech Link
5: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) For all of us, it has been an interesting morning after the night before.Scotland is struggling with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 23 Jul 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Duke of Montrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The night before he wrote a short poem, which begins:“Let them bestow on every airt a limb,Then open - Speech Link
2: Lord Butler of Brockwell (XB - Life peer) I share the view of the committee chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Burns, which was also reflected in - Speech Link
3: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) I thought noble Lords needed waking up at this time of night. I will say something nice about it. - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) in eight overseas cities where the UK already has embassies, at a cost of £1 million each, and about - Speech Link
5: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) I also pay tribute to the contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Burns. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Friend the Member for Bournemouth West (Sir Conor Burns) and read about his constituent who was murdered - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) poisonous rhetoric swirling around the plight of the world’s most vulnerable at the channel on a stormy night - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) Member for Bournemouth West (Sir Conor Burns) rightly flagged, 184 million people globally now live outside - Speech Link
4: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) Member for Bournemouth West (Sir Conor Burns) said that we have to “keep faith” and “be straight with - Speech Link
5: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) people fleeing conflict zones who are unable to access documents such as passports and visas as embassies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 26 Jan 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) I hope she will forgive me, but I cannot let this exchange pass without quoting Rabbie Burns:“O wad some - Speech Link
2: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Friend on her earlier Burns quote? Burns always sought to shine a light on hypocrisy. - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) As of last night, 11 councils across these islands have introduced protected characteristics for this - Speech Link
4: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) to hear from the Secretary of State for Transport about the dangerous situation that occurred last night - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) is why we have an envoy, why this is baked into the core work, and why there is activity in our embassies - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting) - Thu 09 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) dangerous substances such as oil, other flammable substances, and substances that can cause chemical burns - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) : We call it the nightly miracle that we get from literally a blank sheet of paper at 9 o’clock at night - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (LAB - Ealing Central and Acton) I found astonishing the look on their face at some of the evidence they saw from that night and the abuse - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) dangerous substances such as oil, other flammable substances, and substances that can cause chemical burns - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) : We call it the nightly miracle that we get from literally a blank sheet of paper at 9 o’clock at night - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) I found astonishing the look on their face at some of the evidence they saw from that night and the abuse - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 03 Mar 2022
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) Successive Purple Flag awards for excellence in the night-time economy have been given to Cardiff since - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (LAB - Llanelli) service—we might joke that the Welsh are all very nosy, so we would know where so-and-so was on a Saturday night - Speech Link
3: Craig Williams (CON - Montgomeryshire) Wales Week, working with the Foreign Office to ensure that not only is the Welsh flag flying at our embassies - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) Transport colleagues for an update on the next steps, as would his taking the lead, following the Burns - Speech Link
5: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) He has worked day and night, and that man has a heart of gold—he is brilliant. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
EU Ambassador to the UK: Diplomatic Status - Mon 25 Jan 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Reid of Cardowan (LAB - Life peer) This being Burns Night, I commend to the Minister Robert Burns’s invocation:“O wad some Power the giftie - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) , the noble Lord is quite keen to suggest that the difference between the status of nation state embassies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Global Britain - Thu 30 Jan 2020
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) I beg to move,That this House has considered global Britain.As the clock strikes 11 tomorrow night, - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) Member for Bournemouth West (Conor Burns), to set out in his reply to the debate out how the Government - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) Member for Bournemouth West (Conor Burns), when he sums up, at least inform the House of when we might - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) illusion.”I very, very sadly and reluctantly accept that the UK is leaving the EU at 11 pm tomorrow night - Speech Link
5: Conor Burns (IND - Bournemouth West) At 11 o’clock tomorrow night, or 12 o’clock for those in Gibraltar, we will leave the EU—I say this for - Speech Link