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Lords Chamber
India: Freedom of Religion or Belief - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bshp - Bishops) the past year have been rightly highlighted by the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) of religious belief. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) of religious belief. - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) of religious belief. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) of religious belief. - Speech Link
6: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) I think it is true that there are more people in India below the poverty line than in sub-Saharan Africa - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We have a proud history of promoting religious freedom in the United Kingdom, so we should be doing more - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) Religious freedom and tolerance need to be nurtured and guarded nationally and locally. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We can all in this House agree on the important role that freedom of religious belief can play in tackling - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) That is where the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance was born. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Easter and Christian Culture - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) way of life that has enabled us to live in freedom in this wonderful country. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) the planet not only to outlaw slavery permanently, but to enforce that ban worldwide through the West Africa - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand. - Speech Link
4: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) Religious tolerance was mentioned, and I want to make it very clear that freedom of speech, freedom of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) They were formulated by Mr Sullivan, a director of General Motors, in the context of apartheid South Africa - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con - Life peer) and freedom of speech in our higher education institutions? - Speech Link
3: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) of Judaism, it is kosher food—specifically to isolate the ability of individuals to choose to follow religious - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 will ensure that freedom of speech is protected and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) fundraise vast sums of money in order for their children to arrive here in the UK and not end up in east Africa - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The people who go through the system and go to Rwanda need to have their religious beliefs protected, - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We can have all the freedom of religious belief in this great United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Member is entirely right about the importance of religious freedom, particularly in the circumstances - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) Would the Minister for development and Africa please update the House on his recent visit to Ethiopia - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Friend the Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce), who is responsible for freedom of religion or belief, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) also be many Muslim women who are not in legally registered marriages, such as those who have had a religious - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) In one of our projects in South Africa, we have seen a reduction of 39% in reported rapes. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) It is how a number of countries in Africa that I have been to are now working. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) and has not had the chilling effect that we are often warned about in terms of infringements on the freedom - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) There are still 67 countries that criminalise homosexuality, 51 that restrict freedom of sexual and gender - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) the Rainbow ranking since 2015, but because of what we see in a number of countries across Europe, Africa - Speech Link
4: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Religion and religious expression is as intrinsic to the identity of some people as sexuality. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) That is certainly what occurred in Africa. - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) system of religious freedom abuses. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bshp - Bishops) Such wars often produce transnational extremist, political or religious ideologies. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) Does he agree that, for centuries, freedom of the press has essentially meant freedom from the control - Speech Link
2: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It sees potential in increasing trade with Africa. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) In this new state, will the rights of gays, women, minorities and those with other religious practices - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) He mentioned Fiona Bruce and the great job she does as the Prime Minister’s envoy on religious freedom - Speech Link