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Commons Chamber
Cost of Living - Tue 16 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mhairi Black (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) our health and safety, our workers’ rights, and even our human rights eroding underneath it.This is a - Speech Link
2: Douglas Ross (CON - Moray) They do not believe in it. But we need our economy to grow. - Speech Link
3: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) We do not have to wait. - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) We do not want to erect further barriers to our largest market, so sensibly we are waiting to see the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Foreign Policy - Wed 03 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) uplift to the BBC World Service, but that will do very little to restrict the planned cuts. - Speech Link
2: Lord Frost (CON - Life peer) with broadly free societies and those we regard as our friends, do not necessarily always wish to line - Speech Link
3: Lord Popat (CON - Life peer) We do not have enough exports to pay for our imports. - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) If we do not have the confidence as a country, led by our Government, whatever Government that is, to - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights in Myanmar - Wed 19 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Naz Shah (LAB - Bradford West) do not believe in international law or respect human rights. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) are being abused, they do not have to be a Christian to go to the church. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sentamu (CB - Life peer) so that the extension of stop and search does not do greater damage and hurt to our young people, who - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (CON - Excepted Hereditary) with peaceful protests. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) the debate, the police have enough powers to arrest people who do anything that is not peaceful. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hogan-Howe (CB - Life peer) But to have different circumstances in different parts of the country about protest, I just do not understand - Speech Link
5: Lord Morgan (LAB - Life peer) , with the exercise of human rights. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None protest about housing Ukrainian refugees locally. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) of our country, as opposed to those who do not have any documentation to prove the age that they claimed - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) We do not want to do it, and we do not want to be talking about this Bill. - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It is an affront to our human rights in Scotland. - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) If Britain will not stand up for human rights, why do we need to bother? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) At what level should we restrict the right to protest, above the laws that we already have? - Speech Link
2: None Somebody may say it should be six, it should be four—I do not know—but at least it would restrict the - Speech Link
3: None I want this House to realise that when you are our age, these things do not affect you. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sentamu (CB - Life peer) Inspectors did not do too well during our inquiry. They are the de facto junior rank. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Order Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 07 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) I do not think anyone in this House wants to restrict anyone’s right to pray, but we are trying to differentiate - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) right to peaceful protest is a cornerstone of our democracy, which should be championed and protected - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) outlaw peaceful protest. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
2nd reading: Part one - Tue 21 Feb 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) As always, we do not wish for the Government to fail, but we would be remiss in our duty if we did not - Speech Link
2: Lord Strasburger (LDEM - Life peer) grievances, and instead seek to restrict their rights to express those grievances. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (LAB - Life peer) be of the view that it was not necessary to restrict firefighters’ right to strike, as that was not - Speech Link
4: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) This Bill is not the right way to use law and it is very far from the right way to tackle workplace protest - Speech Link
5: Viscount Stansgate (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) Just because these rights have been hard won does not mean that they do not always need to be defended—because - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Report stage - Tue 07 Feb 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) disproportionate powers to our police to interfere with the fundamental right in our democracy to protest - Speech Link
2: Lord Deben (CON - Life peer) It seems to me that “without suspicion” means that you do not have a suspicion, and, if you do not have - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) the world, especially in our country, to protest about things they believe in. - Speech Link
4: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) We do not want to be bracketed with that. - Speech Link
5: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) The Joint Committee on Human Rights agrees that Clause 20 would interfere“with legitimate peaceful exercise - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) fundamental cornerstone of our rights and our democracy. - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) marches and assemblies can take place, even if the protest is going to be peaceful and is not itself - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) I do not want to go through every single contribution; I do not wish to be rude to anybody who I do not - Speech Link
4: None It is very important not to depreciate in any way the rightly valued and historic rights of protest and - Speech Link
5: Lord Sandhurst (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Peaceful protest will be permitted, but the balance will be restored. - Speech Link