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Lords Chamber
Cybersecurity and UK Democracy - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) He added that:“Such action from China will not be tolerated”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) that as a very minor issue in comparison with what has happened in Xinjiang, where there are 1 million Uighurs - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) China is our fourth largest trading nation. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) survivors of atrocity violence, from Yazidi women in Syria and the Uighur communities in exile from China - Speech Link
2: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) I have spoken about the situation of the Uighurs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) It has also provided the ability to highlight atrocities in the People’s Republic of China, northern - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) has serious questions to answer about the treatment of the Uighurs. - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) China was also raised. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hong Kong Security Legislation - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) a breach of the Sino-British joint declaration, adding that the United Kingdom decided in 2021 that China - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) I can confirm for the noble Lord that, after a series of breaches by China, including the imposition - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We work closely with the United States on China. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We will continue to review the appalling situation in Xinjiang—in particular that of the Uighurs, which - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) Recently, we have seen sportswashing Olympics held in China and Russia; Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia - Speech Link
2: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) But, sadly for him, the Games moved on to London, and the challenges to human rights records in China - Speech Link
3: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) certainly did not change the lives of most disabled people in China. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) What do the Uighurs in China, the lesbian and gay communities in Bahrain, and other oppressed minorities - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) My noble friend also raised the case of British parliamentarians sanctioned by China, some of whom are - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Old Windsor (XB - Life peer) One country that has certainly got this message is China. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) Both Russia and China are actively trying to isolate the free world from Africa. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fall (Con - Life peer) live, kinetic even, and China is in the waiting room. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stroud (Con - Life peer) It is underwritten by China, a global superpower intent on rebalancing the geopolitical dynamics. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I conclude with a remark as regards China. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) relation to the issues to which we often drawn this House’s attention, including the position of the Uighurs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) What would happen if a professor expressed at an event a view relating to China, for example—and was - Speech Link
2: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) with regard to the Uighurs, or Myanmar with regard to the Rohingya.Further, the partial exemption of - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) One is blanket prohibitions about statements, even on matters such as Uighurs in China. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We continue to speak for the Uighurs under genocidal repression from the same capital, as I have spoken - Speech Link
5: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) So the sermons of Jesus printed in totalitarian China were permitted, but they were banned if they were - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None First, it specifically applies to China. Yes, because China and the CCP present unique challenges. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) China’s abuses of human rights, particularly in recent years with regard to the persecution of the Uighurs - Speech Link
3: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) and the threat of China joining might well force the United States to join in order to keep China out - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) However, China is in the list referred to, so this is not hypothetical—China is in the list. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Mon 11 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) Russia and China often block human rights-related motions in the United Nations. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) 2015, does this mean it will now accept determinations made by other competent courts in the case of Uighurs - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) We have called out China for its treatment of Uighurs and democracy activists in Hong Kong, and we will - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukrainian Holodomor - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Of course, the Chinese, who refuse even to allow a debate about reports concerning Uighurs at the UN, - Speech Link