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

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Sharibu, who was abducted on 19 February 2018 by ISIS West Africa from the Government Girls Science and Technical - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) We really need humanitarian assistance.” My questions for the Minister are the following. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) little or no aid, not even from the state or Federal Government of Nigeria … I am not aware of any assistance - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) with Christian groups and the Ahmadiyya Muslim community reporting difficulties, or in the Gulf, in Bahrain - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) video celebrating 20 years of F1 in Bahrain? - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) , a country with which the UK provides technical assistance for ongoing reform, supporting progress in - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) I am not going to give him a hard time on human rights in Bahrain. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) him on visits to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Egypt, as well as the visits I have made to Qatar, Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) executive council of 41 member states is appointed by the annual conference for a two-year term and a technical - Speech Link
3: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) Having returned from two recent visits to the region—one to the UAE and Bahrain and the other to Israel—it - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Since 7 October, she and I have been in Bahrain together, meeting with middle east leaders to talk about - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We have trebled our assistance, and we are pressing to get it into Gaza by all available routes—land, - Speech Link
3: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) The Governments of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco have been far sighted in maintaining - Speech Link
4: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Bahrain was the only country to say that it condemned what Hamas had done. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) According to the House of Commons Library, there are 12 Iranian proxy forces in Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) The technical ability of our Royal Navy outdoes that of a great number of countries, including in respect - Speech Link
3: Jeff Smith (Lab - Manchester, Withington) People are facing starvation and thirst, and are without medical assistance. - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) In Bahrain it has two or three and in Iraq it has at least six, some of which are rocketing UK and US - Speech Link
5: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) the Minister elaborated on the Prime Minister’s comments to the House yesterday about what further assistance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Britain has increased planned assistance to Palestinian civilians to £60 million, and has delivered over - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) partnerships with Israel developing across the middle east: one thinks in particular of the Emirates and Bahrain - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We welcomed the 2020 UN Human Rights Council resolution, which proposed technical co-operation on human - Speech Link
4: Theo Clarke (Con - Stafford) What steps is the UK taking to help Ukraine to rebuild its armed forces and provide humanitarian assistance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Israel/Gaza - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) congested, rubble-strewn debris of Gaza, a ground war is not likely to lend itself to heavy armour or technical - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) What guarantees do we have that none of the future humanitarian aid and assistance will cross-subsidise - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) weeks ago, I spoke in the debate on the first anniversary of the Abraham accords: Israel, the UAE, Bahrain - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Integrated Review Refresh - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) The previous CSSF scored over 50% on overseas development assistance. - Speech Link
2: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) We need to build on the UK’s strategic advantage to secure supply and our future as a technical leader - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) I also note that in Bahrain it was reported yesterday that four people have been arrested over tweets - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Procurement Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord True (CON - Life peer) Amendment 170 is also a technical amendment.Amendments 175, 182, and 414 clarify what it means to treat - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Apart from Agamemnon, he was the only principal character who received no substantial assistance from - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) listing genocide there.I have a particular interest in Gulf states, particularly human rights abuses in Bahrain - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran’s Nuclear Programme - Thu 30 Jun 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran has been enriching uranium up to a purity of 60%—a short technical - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (CON - South West Wiltshire) Indeed, with every day that passes, the JCPOA becomes less attractive: while Iran’s technical capabilities - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) The revolutionary guard corps openly supports Hezbollah by providing financial assistance, weapons, ammunition - Speech Link