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Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) reports must be laid before Parliament and whose recommendations relevant authorities must publicly - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) the Second World War, with its appalling death toll, its genocide, and the attacks on homosexuals, Christians - Speech Link
3: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) She is a lady called Stella Creasy, and one of the bravest Members of Parliament I know. - Speech Link
4: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) formulating policies, steering Bills through Parliament and defending litigation. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) But the underlying issue is the constitutional balance between the courts and Parliament. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He will know that it was the topic that the Youth Parliament chose to debate when they visited the Chamber - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Bosworth) May we have a debate in Government time on improved education in England? - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Last week, we had the launch of Ceramics UK in Parliament. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Will the Leader of the House join me in condemning the persecution of Christians in Iraq, and in calling - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
North Korea - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) places, who together have kept the issue of North Korea going in the British Parliament. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Over the years, I have made over 400 interventions about North Korea in Parliamentin Questions, letters - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) where Christians suffer most. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Think, for instance, of the Uighur Muslims, Rohingya Muslims, Nigerian Christians, Iranian Baha’is, Falun - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In one recent school debate I was involved in on whether mobile phones should be banned in classrooms - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) Only the Liberals were in favour.It was the Liberal Member of Parliament, Frank Byers, on the return - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) They are vital not only in supporting changes in society, but also in protecting people. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (Con - Life peer) In the 14 years that I was a Member of Parliament, there were very few occasions on which the votes I - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) A pub quiz question which I put to many people in Parliament and other places is: if the welfare state - Speech Link
3: Lord Cormack (Con - Life peer) Many Christians do not agree with that, and I respect them. Perhaps I am wrong. - Speech Link
4: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bshp - Bishops) It was a model for how that sort of controversial subject can be handled in Parliament. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Uyghurs continue to be imprisoned in Xinjiang, and the Buddhists in Tibet and Christians in North - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) and around Parliament have marked these anniversaries. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The message was clear: 120,000 Christians in Artsakh—I hope that is pronounced correctly—in Armenia are - Speech Link
4: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) It is important that in this House of Commons, this Parliament of ours, we uphold the values of human - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools: Safeguarding - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) Israel and Gaza, I declare my interest as the Christian vice-chair for the Council of Christians and - Speech Link
2: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) As, I believe, the only working teacher in both Houses of Parliament, I thought I would give the House - Speech Link
3: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) Here in Britain, it was in 1960 with April Ashley and in 1964 with the historian Jan Morris, whom I knew - Speech Link
4: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) Safe in Education, in September. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) problem—an increase from one in nine in 2017 and equivalent to about five children in every classroom - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Conversion Practices - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) this Parliament as soon as possible. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) For many Christians, it is an important devotional practice that may be limited by a conversion therapy - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Is the Minister confident that we will be able to conduct meaningful scrutiny before the end of this Parliament - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) the hopes of setting out further details in Parliament on the Government’s plans in this space in the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lankan Tamils and Human Rights - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) However, if we are to play a role as the UK, and if this Parliament is to play its role in influencing - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) In Easter 2009, I spent my time out on Parliament Square watching London’s Tamil community beside itself - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) Canada’s Parliament also groundbreakingly unanimously recognised Tamil genocide in a landmark motion—the - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They have described the situation of minority religious groups, including Hindus, Christians and Muslims - Speech Link
5: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) In addition, I was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2009. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) does not seem to realise that the union action, which he fails to condemn, and which his Members of Parliament - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) I am pleased that the first ever debate in Parliament on birth trauma was held recently, in October. - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) Today is Red Wednesday when we remember millions of Christians and others worldwide who are persecuted - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Red Wednesday is an important moment to demonstrate our solidarity with Christians and all those persecuted - Speech Link