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Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Friend the Member for Bournemouth West (Sir Conor Burns) and read about his constituent who was murdered - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) poisonous rhetoric swirling around the plight of the world’s most vulnerable at the channel on a stormy night - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) Member for Bournemouth West (Sir Conor Burns) rightly flagged, 184 million people globally now live outside - Speech Link
4: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) Member for Bournemouth West (Sir Conor Burns) said that we have to “keep faith” and “be straight with - Speech Link
5: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) about people fleeing conflict zones who are unable to access documents such as passports and visas as embassies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 26 Jan 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) I hope she will forgive me, but I cannot let this exchange pass without quoting Rabbie Burns:“O wad some - Speech Link
2: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Friend on her earlier Burns quote? Burns always sought to shine a light on hypocrisy. - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) As of last night, 11 councils across these islands have introduced protected characteristics for this - Speech Link
4: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) to hear from the Secretary of State for Transport about the dangerous situation that occurred last night - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) That is why we have an envoy, why this is baked into the core work, and why there is activity in our embassies - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) dangerous substances such as oil, other flammable substances, and substances that can cause chemical burns - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) I found astonishing the look on their face at some of the evidence they saw from that night and the abuse - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) Similarly, if you walk past certain embassies in London—the Chinese embassy, for example—there will often - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting) - Thu 09 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) dangerous substances such as oil, other flammable substances, and substances that can cause chemical burns - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (LAB - Ealing Central and Acton) I found astonishing the look on their face at some of the evidence they saw from that night and the abuse - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (LAB - Ealing Central and Acton) Similarly, if you walk past certain embassies in London—the Chinese embassy, for example—there will often - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 03 Mar 2022
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) Successive Purple Flag awards for excellence in the night-time economy have been given to Cardiff since - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (LAB - Llanelli) service—we might joke that the Welsh are all very nosy, so we would know where so-and-so was on a Saturday night - Speech Link
3: Craig Williams (CON - Montgomeryshire) Wales Week, working with the Foreign Office to ensure that not only is the Welsh flag flying at our embassies - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) for Transport colleagues for an update on the next steps, as would his taking the lead, following the Burns - Speech Link
5: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) He has worked day and night, and that man has a heart of gold—he is brilliant. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
EU Ambassador to the UK: Diplomatic Status - Mon 25 Jan 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Reid of Cardowan (LAB - Life peer) This being Burns Night, I commend to the Minister Robert Burns’s invocation:“O wad some Power the giftie - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) Lords, the noble Lord is quite keen to suggest that the difference between the status of nation state embassies - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence, Diplomacy and Development Policy - Thu 30 Jan 2020
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness D'Souza (CB - Life peer) Therefore, embassies need to be “super-facilitators”, supported with the resources to include enhanced - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) The noble Earl said nice things about Scotland, where I live, and since I am speaking at a Burns supper - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wheeler (LAB - Life peer) Our geopolitical relationships are being reset at 11 pm tomorrow night, when we leave the EU, and we - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sugg (CON - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, said—I will not attempt to repeat Burns—our reputation overseas is a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Global Britain - Thu 30 Jan 2020
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) I beg to move,That this House has considered global Britain.As the clock strikes 11 tomorrow night, - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) Member for Bournemouth West (Conor Burns), to set out in his reply to the debate out how the Government - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) Member for Bournemouth West (Conor Burns), when he sums up, at least inform the House of when we might - Speech Link
4: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) also been a considerable growth in the numbers of locally employed members of high commissions and embassies - Speech Link
5: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) the things that surprised me is that ambassadors do not always have line management of all staff in embassies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Britain in the World - Mon 13 Jan 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) keep my words brief today.I have listened carefully to the contributions thus far, and, as we approach Burns - Speech Link
2: Imran Ahmad Khan (IND - Wakefield) My nana was a night sister there. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (CON - Romford) foreign policy and put the UK firmly back on the world stage.That is a far cry from the days when British embassies - Speech Link
4: John Howell (CON - Henley) You will recall that, last night, you and I were at a dinner with my hon. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Stephenson (CON - Pendle) That is particularly apt exactly one month on from a sleepless night for all of us.My hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 08 Jan 2020
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) was working and prevented the new Prime Minister calling an election, I recall hearing on a Saturday night - Speech Link
2: Lord Jordan (LAB - Life peer) Falls, burns, carbon monoxide poisoning, entrapment and poisoning from household chemicals all typically - Speech Link
3: Lord Judge (CB - Life peer) What on earth is the point of that wonderful committee led by the noble Lord, Lord Burns, making all - Speech Link
4: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) done, to deny it extraterritorial application too, save in the most limited circumstances, such as embassies - Speech Link
5: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (CB - Life peer) I had a text on my phone last night from a young man who came out of a five-year sentence in Brixton - Speech Link