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Commons Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Report stage - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None territory outside the United Kingdom, but not including the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and any British - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) The CGTN television station, which was fortunately taken off air by Ofcom, targeted British universities - Speech Link
3: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) We should be proud of British universities and proud to stand up for liberty and academic freedom. - Speech Link
4: Miriam Cates (CON - Penistone and Stocksbridge) The starkest division in British society—not only in voting behaviour, but in social values—is between - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Jews deserve the right to practise their religion in so far as it does not harm others, as do Muslims, Sikhs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Kashmir: Human Rights - Tue 17 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (CB - Life peer) It is a trust that successive Indian Governments have betrayed, first against Sikhs, and then with the - Speech Link
2: Lord Ranger (CON - Life peer) In 1947, the British created two countries: one to promote people on the basis of their religion and - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) My noble friend raised issues relating to minorities, including Sikhs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prime Minister’s Visit to India - Tue 26 Apr 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) On Ukraine, the British Prime Minister and Prime Minister Modi released a statement immediately after - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) Three British citizens—Saeed and Sakil Dawood and Mohammed Aswad—were murdered in the communal violence - Speech Link
3: Kim Leadbeater (LAB - Batley and Spen) answer for himself, can she tell us what representations he made to Narendra Modi about the concerns of British - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) at the highest level the much publicised issues of human rights of minorities and the detention of British - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) is a strong and growing evidential base showing high levels of persecution of Christians, Muslims, Sikhs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Easter Adjournment - Thu 31 Mar 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) conversion is far too common, and it is affecting not only Hindus such as Pooja, but Christians and Sikhs - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Lewis Hamilton and others have done more for human rights in Saudi Arabia than the British Government - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Christians and Religious Minorities: India - Thu 24 Feb 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) violent clashes, that a new law would have“ no effect on citizens of India, including Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs - Speech Link
2: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) India—I would like to call attention to and condemn in the strongest possible terms the persecution of Sikhs - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) Minority community status for Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis, Buddhists and Jains is not only protected - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) My understanding is that the British high commission in New Delhi also monitors all political and societal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 2 - Tue 01 Feb 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) which women are subject, and their experience of gender-based violence and inferior social status.”British - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) , I would say that this could apply equally to some people who are facing religious persecution: so Sikhs - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) However, just last week, the British Red Cross produced research suggesting that, for all the better - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) , Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb and Lady Stroud, my noble friend Lord Blunkett—who had to leave—and the British - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Afghanistan (International Relations and Defence Committee Report) - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) State Khorasan Province, was responsible for at least 10 attacks against Shia Muslims, Sufi Muslims and Sikhs - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) It is a microcosm of the problem in this British response. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) This includes over 1,200 British nationals and qualifying dependants. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) of religious minority groups who are at risk, including Shi’a and Ismaili Muslims, Hazaras, Hindus, Sikhs - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Many people worked as suppliers to the British Army. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) Member for Birmingham, Erdington also asked about the funding of British nationals and British national - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Refugees: Mass Displacement - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) include thousands of people from religious or belief minorities, including small groups of Christians, Sikhs - Speech Link
2: Lord Hayward (CON - Life peer) I ask that question of Mr Quincey, who, as I say, is a British national. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) There are individual cases of people who worked for the British Council saying that they no longer have - Speech Link
4: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) I am not aware of any assistance from the British Government in the central region ... - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Freedom of Speech - Fri 10 Dec 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) British values, of which we are rightly so proud, are falling, right now, into an abyss. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Birmingham (Bishops - Bishops) Conversations are bringing together the six main religions—Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) Government took the significant step of establishing the British Broadcasting Corporation in the face - Speech Link
4: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (CB - Life peer) This led some members of the public to believe that Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists were also responsible - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) British democracy has always been robust and oppositional. - Speech Link