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Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
3rd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) with Great Britain in relation to consumer protection matters. - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) After yesterday’s events, it is inconceivable that the Chinese Government could own 1% or even one share - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) newspapers that editorial independence is protected by some form of editorial board or other Chinese - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) that mean in this context? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) Britain that we have not imported from the United States in the last 30 years. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Can the Minister say whether the Foreign Secretary will raise those issues with the Chinese ambassador - Speech Link
3: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) However, there are many Christians here in Britain today who are nervous and fearful of expressing biblical - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) and Islamophobia; they have no place in modern Britain. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Taiwan Strait - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Gentleman agree that the treatment of Taiwan exemplifies the attitude shown by the Chinese to democracy - Speech Link
2: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) Only 3% identify as Chinese. Nearly half support formal independence. - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Gentleman share the view that Britain will remain dependent on Taiwan for silicon chips for a long time - Speech Link
4: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) pandemic combined, or—I asked this question earlier, following the Government’s response to the news of Chinese - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) It is the poaching, often funded by Chinese criminal gangs, that puts at critical risk the survival of - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) space.Our rhinos also require armed guards to safeguard them from ruthless poaching gangs financed by Chinese - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) will prevent people from bringing into Great Britain hunting trophies from the species listed in annex - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) However, the Bill is about imports into Great Britain, as many have said in the debate—my right hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) China sea—that having two offshore patrol vessels based in Singapore is going to deter the Chinese—is - Speech Link
2: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) Have any of these people seen the state of the public realm in Britain? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None Although Britain recognises the right of all jurisdictions to implement national security legislation - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Is the UK so dependent on Chinese imports of goods and Hong Kong investment that we will not act when - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) the UK as a result of Chinese operations in Great Britain. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) On Xinjiang, we have taken direct action against the Chinese authorities, which the noble Lord is aware - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) , reasonable, proportionate and effective as the right way to change the course of Chinese domestic policy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) In my time in sport, I competed at five Games. - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) an Austrian Jew who ran in the sprints in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin—it is not so long ago; I was in - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) From Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in 2008, via the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018, the pattern is the - 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) Britain, the United States and a number of other market economy countries. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) Is anyone, anywhere, ceasing to use Chinese products? I need hardly go on. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) problems in some research partnerships with Chinese academics, sometimes now with Russian academics - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) The Chinese are able to have their ships in that port because the Sri Lankan Government is bankrupt. - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Friend is absolutely right; there is increasing concern about Chinese influence on the island. - Speech Link
3: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) We got Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, who has spent his time out of office being paid by a Chinese - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) the Justice Minister, and she again saw the Sri Lankan Justice Minister when he was in Britain last - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hong Kong Security Legislation - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Broad definitions will negatively affect those who live, work and do business there.Although Britain - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) during the debate that Britain would stop it from joining the CPTPP. - Speech Link
3: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) Some of us in the House have begged the Government to do an audit of the extent of Chinese influence - Speech Link