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Lords Chamber
UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: None announced at the historic UK-EU summit—the first of its kind. - Speech Link
2: None The UK and the EU will now proceed swiftly with negotiations on a UK-EU electricity agreement. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) In other countries, sovereignty has to be compromised by international co-operation. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) We are negotiating bilateral agreements with countries. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) , creating new opportunities for cultural exchange with the UK and the EU. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) you will naturally warn of those dangers, as exemplified by the proponents of Project Fear during the EU - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) debate was about looked at the incidence of honour-based abuse and how it is being dealt with in countries - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Schools are often the first place where honour-based abuse is visible, through changes in behaviour, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Asylum Reforms: Protected Characteristics - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) In some EU countries, people can work from day one. - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) In relation to the assessment of safe countries for removal, the blanket designation of a country as - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman) said, it is about more than individual countries; we are - Speech Link
4: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) Member said that I might not be able to give her the assurances she sought on safe countries. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) , which the Prime Minister announced at the historic UK-EU summit—the first of its kind. - Speech Link
2: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) agreement that I am going to secure by the time of the next UK-EU summit. - Speech Link
3: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) First, as Chair of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly, I welcome the statement. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alison Hume (Lab - Scarborough and Whitby) I have visited some of my local primary schools with fully funded breakfast clubs and seen for myself - Speech Link
2: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) That is the equivalent of 20 primary schools packed full of children. - Speech Link
3: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) Because we are subject to EU state aid rules. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) Those choices are why the Chancellor is able to put libraries in primary schools, as my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I tried to table a similar amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill but was told that it - Speech Link
2: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) I have been a governor of many schools. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) Random breath testing happens in many other countries and the effects are evident. - Speech Link
4: None Jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia and several EU nations already have this law. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Pidgeon (LD - Life peer) As we have heard, it is already used in many EU countries, New Zealand, Australia and the United States - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) More than 16,000 SMEs have given up trading with the EU since it happened. - Speech Link
2: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) We struck a deal with the EU in May. We need to implement that deal. - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) steel safeguards, and to make sure it is understood that we are not the problem for the EU and the EU - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
The UK’s Demographic Future - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) , I made contact with three countries overseas: the Netherlands; Japan, which is facing the opposite - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) I sometimes wonder whether it goes back to the 1970s, when you had countries such as China and India - Speech Link
3: Lord Frost (Non-affiliated - Life peer) A similar trend is visible across most European countries. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sarfraz (Con - Life peer) eligible for any public services, and those countries are attracting talent and entrepreneurship. - Speech Link
5: Lord Stoneham of Droxford (LD - Life peer) to bring them into line, as they would if we were a member of the EU. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Foreign Interference - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) Sweden’s chief of defence put it starkly last month, when he said:“Political polarisation in many countries - Speech Link
2: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) Having left the EU single market, Britain faces economic pressure from multiple directions. - Speech Link
3: Peter Swallow (Lab - Bracknell) Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) suggested that the EU and NATO had “provoked” Russia’s invasion of - Speech Link
4: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) only in so far as they affect America, yet for the UK and the EU, it makes a special exception. - 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) Our local institutions —schools, colleges and voluntary groups—prove that community is built by hands - Speech Link
2: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Education standards in Scotland’s schools are on the slide. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) as only one Scottish Labour Member—they were chucked out—was able to rebel on the two-child cap.The EU - Speech Link
4: Johanna Baxter (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) Instead of fixing schools and hospitals, they fall out with themselves. - Speech Link