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Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
2nd reading - Tue 01 Nov 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hailsham (CON - Life peer) Thus, in the context of free speech, society has long accepted limitations, such as in the law of defamation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) The Northern Ireland Assembly passed a Bill for buffer zones in March, and the Scottish Government have - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) advice that said that this was not the section to build first and that we should have built the other, northern - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) grandfather—and that, in another part of the family, my great-grandfather Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was imprisoned in Ireland - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
2nd reading - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Just last year, as everyone in the House will remember very well, the Police Service of Northern Ireland - Speech Link
2: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) I am very happy to build further and closer engagement with Northern Ireland on this particular issue - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord True (CON - Life peer) Ireland and provides that transferred Northern Ireland authorities should make notification of exclusion - Speech Link
2: Lord True (CON - Life peer) Ireland and exclude transferred Northern Ireland authorities from the obligation to publish contracts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) criminalise certain topics, of which there are surprisingly many, ranging from the prevention of terrorism to defamation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In Northern Ireland we have one Russell group university, Queen’s University, and the University of Ulster - Speech Link
3: Baroness Shafik (CB - Life peer) I believe that there should be, similar to the threshold in the Defamation Act the Government passed - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) In particular, the Bill provides for absolute privilege against defamation claims arising from publication - Speech Link
2: None speech complaints scheme inserted into the 2017 Act by the Bill provides for absolute privilege for defamation - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) not make a speech on Report because I was attending a meeting with the Foreign Secretary about the Northern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 12 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hope of Craighead (CB - Life peer) Scotland and Wales, but particularly so in Northern Ireland. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) This is especially grave in relation to Northern Ireland. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (LAB - Life peer) In Northern Ireland, it is a mess. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) Ireland: the Northern Ireland Office. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Steve Baker (CON - Wycombe) parliamentary privilege to say in the House things over which those outside the House might otherwise sue for defamation - Speech Link
2: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) There is also the impact that the Prime Minister has had on relationships in Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Ireland—much as I want not to be part of that Union—all is lost. - Speech Link
4: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) The entirety of Northern Ireland was misled on paper, or a lack of paper, on the borders and the protocol - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation - Thu 17 Mar 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) and shame such companies and will specific secondary legislation be proposed to strengthen existing defamation - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) When we are dealing with libel law and the Defamation Act 2013, it will require changes to primary legislation - Speech Link
3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) We look at the various defences in defamation law to see whether they are sufficient to deal with this - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) commitment to protect our legal rights across the whole of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Northern Ireland has never required this, so it is impossible to retrospectively apply the provisions - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) in Northern Ireland within the register of overseas entities by adding a new Schedule 8A. - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) I definitely also spoke to Ministers from Northern Ireland. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 09 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) This information has never been recorded by the Northern Ireland land registry, so we are unable to make - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) However, I shall pick up one point made by the noble Lord, Lord Empey, about Northern Ireland. - Speech Link