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Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) also, of course, damaged by silly visa rules that make it impossible for us to recruit people from overseas - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) Moreover, impact information should be a useful tool in the policymaking process, helping departments - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) He prays in aid public opinion, but what research have the Government done on the proposals? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) and all of us expect, in which children grow up, leave home and, as our strength wanes, come to our aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, made a fair point that departments have to wait for the right Bill - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I will add to that the issue of overseas bank accounts. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) I doubt it is a comprehensive list, but it contains the 24 ministerial departments, 20 non-ministerial - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Amendment 26, is the implication for charitable organisations delivering public functions in terms of overseas - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Therefore, the ban would not restrict how such bodies decide, for example, to distribute humanitarian aid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) Again, this goes back to the Government. - Speech Link
2: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) is why it is sitting on so much of the food supply; that is why there are lorries waiting to deliver aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and that those powers enable fair and equal treatment of overseas - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The Government agree and say that this is a terrible problem, that it is confusing for our partners overseas - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Parliament have refused to give their consent to apply the ban to their Ministers and the respective departments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) What irony, when Conservative MPs are overseas today in Brussels, lining up with the European far right - Speech Link
2: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) That would be good if there were only 20 trading standards departments across the UK; unfortunately, - Speech Link
3: Mark Eastwood (Con - Dewsbury) impact of removing all flavours on non-smoking young people and adult smokers using vapes as a quit aid - Speech Link
4: Chloe Smith (Con - Norwich North) to be thoughtful and are based on five terms of constituency work and ministerial experience in six Departments - Speech Link
5: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) while at the same time supporting current smokers to quit by switching to vapes as a less harmful quit aid - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights: Consular Services - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Edinburgh West referred to.As Members are aware, some of the hardest working non-governmental organisation aid - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) What was once a Rolls-Royce Department was chipped and shaved away at, like so many other Departments - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) For any British national, the idea of being wrongly detained overseas or denied due legal process is - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Our support for British nationals in difficulty overseas is right at the heart of the work of the Foreign - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) The amendments also seek to oblige the Secretary of State to ensure that public bodies, government departments - Speech Link
2: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) departments and the broader public sector. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) departments comply with their obligations under UK data law. - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) The Government frequently pray in aid the consultation—they say, “Well, we did that because of the consultation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
3rd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) support of the Northern Ireland Office, my officials have liaised with the relevant Northern Ireland departments - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) that is 16 pages long tells us how much hard work has gone into this with the civil servants in both departments - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) interests.We look forward to hearing details of the department’s further work on implementing the gift aid - Speech Link
4: None country or territory outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the British Overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman will recognise that I look after the Defence budget, rather than the overseas development budget - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) With other Government Departments, the Ministry of Defence delivers a range of services to our brilliant - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The UK continually assesses potential threats to our overseas territories, including the sovereign base - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) The Israeli Government have said that they want to “flood” Gaza with aid. Will my right hon. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Obviously, the issue involves other Government Departments too. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) greater than other measures of inflation, partly because a lot of our defence equipment is imported from overseas - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) Whether it is Royal Navy ships’ days at sea or MACA agreements struck with other Departments, data that - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) to Ukraine within our overall aid package worth almost £12 billion. - Speech Link