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Commons Chamber
Sudan: Government Response - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Last week, members of the all-party group on Sudan and South Sudan heard from eyewitnesses and aid workers - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) At least 21 humanitarian aid workers have been murdered, 8.6 million people are displaced, and nearly - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) the vast amount of migration has been across the border into Chad and South Sudan, and indeed into Ethiopia - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) The lean season approaches in other parts of Africa too, including Ethiopia. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) for Aid Impact found that, despite the commitments, the UK has not done this. - Speech Link
2: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) Intelligence Unit showed that by eliminating two NTDs—soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis—Ethiopia - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Lab - Life peer) The first is from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and shows that one in 10 workers are in persistent low - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) We will ensure that outsourced workers are included in the gender pay gap and pay ratio reporting. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We could talk about Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen, Venezuela, the DRC, Syria and Ethiopia —the list goes on. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morris of Bolton (Con - Life peer) What we need is fully trained workers on the ground to help to distribute the aid and to treat the children - Speech Link
3: Baroness Suttie (LD - Life peer) The Minister will also probably know that, currently, many Uzbek workers help every autumn with our cherry - Speech Link
4: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) On 1 January, Ethiopia, a key partner of the UK, signed an MoU with Somaliland, in which Ethiopia formally - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) In Yemen, in DRC, in Ethiopia, in Sudan and South Sudan and in Ukraine, conflict has exacerbated a global - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Republicans in Congress block aid and arms to Ukraine. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) humanitarian workers whose visas have expired or been withdrawn. - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) So there are some proper big bilateral programmes to countries in need, such as Ethiopia for instance.The - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) particularly in the volatile situation that the world is in.To follow on from my questions to the Minister, aid - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) We need to ensure that it is safe for people to speak up for democracy, workers’ rights and human rights - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) sides in Israel and Gaza, with the release of hostages, the opening of humanitarian corridors to let aid - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) In a number of cases, whether it is Myanmar, Ethiopia or Sudan, I believe that there have been clear - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) It must show concern about environmental protections and workers’ rights. - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) surely goes without saying that preventing a crisis avoids the vastly bigger costs of humanitarian aid - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Britain recently announced an additional £30 million of British aid for vital supplies into Gaza.In Ukraine - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Foreign Secretary has stepped up his visits to a range of countries, including Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.There are egregious examples around the world in conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) than 8,500 in Somalia; more than 5,000 in Syria; more than 4,000 in Nigeria; 3,000 in Yemen; 3,000 in Ethiopia - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) UNRWA has been bereaved; over 100 UN aid workers have been killed in this conflict, the highest in the - Speech Link
5: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, said, neither should we forget the UN workers and humanitarian workers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Assaults on shop workers tripled during the pandemic and have not gone down again. - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) There are countless dead in Ethiopia-Tigray and in Azerbaijan-Armenia. - Speech Link
3: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) Almost every international aid agency in the world is saying that vital humanitarian aid cannot be delivered - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Red Crescent, Christian Aid, and all of the major aid agencies with a presence in the region. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Report stage - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) It is perfectly legitimate to call for a ceasefire to address that crisis and let humanitarian aid flow - Speech Link
2: None I pray in aid on this point none other than the Supreme Court of France, which ruled as long ago as 2009 - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) I chair the Iranian workers’ movement committee, which supports trade unionists campaigning in Iran, - Speech Link
4: Nicola Richards (Con - West Bromwich East) SodaStream’s mistreatment of and discrimination against Palestinian workers is not forgotten either.” - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Long-Term Strategic Challenges Posed by China - Thu 19 Oct 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) They do not aid clarity; indeed, they often confuse. - Speech Link
2: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) I recall a discussion with him about overseas aid. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) these Benches are not on the people-to-people relations with the Chinese people—whether students or workers - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) When you look down the list, you see the UAE, Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina and Iran—so the list is an interesting - Speech Link