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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The title of this year’s report was The Cost of Collapse and the Cost of Control, and it indicated that - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) the freedom of belief which is a feature of our own democracy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) They have never had a place in Britain.My party’s constitution starts with the words:“we seek to balance - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) extremism and promoting democracy. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) On that basis, the Constitution Committee asks us to consider whether the breadth of the Secretary of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) chance.As the noble Baroness said, we are in an area of great concern for the level of democracy that - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is essential in a healthy democracy that registered political parties, elected representatives and - Speech Link
4: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) The Constitution Committee’s report on the Bill, published on 25 January, noted:“Clause 9 amends Article - 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) from liberal democracy, and the great changes in technology, as we see in social media and so on, mean - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LD - Life peer) within the Indian constitution. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) We need to be thinking and exploring issues ahead of time, and the Bill gives us and the Government the - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Alton, the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, and others, defined within our Human Rights and Democracy Report - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Easter and Christian Culture - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) sarcasm and banter—a cup of tea, sport, the BBC, and so the list goes on. - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) and the way Christians treated and persecuted one another in the past. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) teachings; our constitution; our monarchy; our flag. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) , but in a vigorous democracy there must be this freedom of expression. - Speech Link
5: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) worship, democracy, the rule of law and equal rights are things that we all strive for and value. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) My understanding is that the Government accept that Rwanda is a democracy, so is the First Reading of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) This Government are choosing tyranny over democracy in this instance. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) What the noble Lord appears to suggest is that there is a confusion in the Rwandan constitution; I do - Speech Link
4: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) on in the response to the Constitution Committee which the Government have issued. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
2nd reading - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) doing so undermines a fundamental principle of our democracy: the separation of the judiciary and the - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) I am well aware that that may seem a futile exercise to some, but this is democracy and this is what - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden and my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Bromley and - Speech Link
4: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) builds an impenetrable wall between the different legs of the constitution. - Speech Link
5: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) The Bill undermines a key part of our democracy, the separation of the legislature and judiciary. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Conduct of Elections - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) of events since then, but the intention of this debate is to note that a number of changes to our democracy - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) produced in terms of whether electoral registers support our democracy. - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) If they genuinely believe in the changes they have made to our democracy, they should call a general - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Although we have different outlooks on the constitution, we have the very same opinion on the issue of - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) foundational principles are peace and democracy. - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) We all want to see a pathway for Sri Lanka to become a pluralistic, multicultural democracy in which - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) assembly and the media. - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) This is yet another nail in the coffin of Hong Kong democracy, and I cannot believe that we are here - Speech Link
3: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) in their democracy and that it would not be challenged. - Speech Link
4: Tom Randall (Con - Gedling) given by those pro-democracy activists who have suffered so much in advocating their cause.I welcome - Speech Link
5: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) uphold article 3 of Interpol’s constitution. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Refugees - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (Lab - Ealing Central and Acton) Yet we talk here of a European near neighbour—a democracy—that has a hostile neighbouring territory in - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , and that is how it works.As the conflict continues, the religious rights and actions for and against - Speech Link