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Grand Committee
British Armed Forces: Global Britain - Thu 21 Jan 2021
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (CON - Life peer) of the most vulnerable, providing direct humanitarian assistance, delivering aid and peacekeeping. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I know the region, and I can only wish our soldiers and aid workers well. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) In among all that, the noble Lord, Lord Dannatt, raised international aid. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade Bill
Consideration of Lords amendmentsPing Pong - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (CON - Chelsea and Fulham) They include: first, strengthening the overseas business risk guidance to make clearer the risk to UK - Speech Link
2: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) To some people, that concept would mean private healthcare companies from overseas being able to compete - Speech Link
3: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) China must also have deep concerns about the records of Egypt, Turkey and Cameroon or Saudi Arabia, Bahrain - Speech Link
4: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) Without amendment 1, the CRaG provisions, which are prayed in aid by the Government, amount to little - Speech Link
5: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) They would oblige Ministers to provide a full assessment of the human rights records of any overseas - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Relations with Qatar - Thu 10 Dec 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) importantly, we should look at the continuing blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) progress.I would also say that there are countries whose economies are entirely driven by sending workers overseas - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) The UK’s important wider diplomatic relationships with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nigeria: Sanctions Regime - Mon 23 Nov 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) They should also make appropriate adjustments to the overseas security and justice assistance funding - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Arabian Government for use in the Yemen crisis or the training of the special investigation unit in Bahrain - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet and others raised the matter of UK aid. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Integrated Activity Fund: Transparency - Thu 22 Oct 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) is the controversial conflict, security and stability fund, the CSSF, which drew criticism from UK aid - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) This fund is not part of our aid budget; it is overseas spending. - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) Indeed, which is why I deliberately did not use the terms “overseas aid” or “overseas development assistance - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) No one should benefit from British aid who is not carrying out the most basic human rights obligations.One - Speech Link
5: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Surely we have a moral and ethical obligation to reassess any current aid relationship we have with states - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 13 Oct 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) the national security law, including, as I said, offering a new immigration path for British national overseas - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) We have adapted our education aid programming, and have committed new funding to UNICEF, Education Cannot - Speech Link
3: Caroline Ansell (CON - Eastbourne) east is changing before our eyes and the significance of Israel’s peace agreements with the UAE and Bahrain - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) The GREAT Britain campaign, which is actively supported by our diplomatic posts overseas, showcases the - Speech Link
5: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) I think he will find that we are practising what we preach, which brings together the aid—taxpayers’ - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 08 Oct 2020
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Chris Green (CON - Bolton West) Just as Israel has signed a peace treaty with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, it is innovating - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) The Government also will not commit on state aid beyond WTO rules, while CETA contains stronger agreements - Speech Link
3: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) reality is that what the EU is demanding goes far beyond Canada in terms of an ex-ante regime on state aid - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) At the same time, they have given only £1 billion in aid. - Speech Link
5: Ranil Jayawardena (CON - North East Hampshire) draw on a lot of available information, including reports from non-governmental organisations and our overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 08 Sep 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Belarusian armed forces and full details of police and military training being provided to Turkey, Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) We are engaged with think-tanks, from the Royal United Services Institute to the Overseas Development - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) is needed most overseas. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) As we have left the EU, it is curious to have an operation overseas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 - Wed 29 Jul 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) It mentions countries about which there are concerns over human rights abuses, such as Bahrain, the Maldives - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) In these countries, insidious levels of corruption aid and abet criminality. - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) Are the Government satisfied that financial institutions in the overseas territories are sufficiently - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) We are working very closely with geographical leads within government and posts overseas to identify - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Official Development Assistance - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) I hope that these concerns are entirely ill-founded, but we had an urgent question earlier today on Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) and values overseas.” - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) But in the past 10 years DFID’s role in overseas development aid has gradually been reduced. - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) We do not have an audit of our overseas spending, and I believe that we badly need one. - Speech Link
5: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Even before any of the waste of taxpayers’ money from overseas development aid being spent by other Government - Speech Link