Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) ensuring that the base on Diego Garcia remains permanently available for our use, and for the United States - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman will recognise that I look after the Defence budget, rather than the overseas development budget - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The UK continually assesses potential threats to our overseas territories, including the sovereign base - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I have visited the majority of countries in the middle east and Gulf region to discuss exactly the points - Speech Link
5: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) to enhance our Indo-Pacific security, and meanwhile our trilateral AUKUS partnership with the United States - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Our forces’ sheer range of commitments, from global engagements to domestic MACAs—military aid to civil - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) light on that.This is not a Eurocentric issue; we must also be aware of the increasing tension in the Gulf - Speech Link
3: 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
4: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) to Ukraine within our overall aid package worth almost £12 billion. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) Recently, we have seen sportswashing Olympics held in China and Russia; Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) It would appear that the Gulf states, America and China are not terribly interested in hosting the Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) As we have seen, for many countries, from Afghanistan to the Gulf states, this is an issue. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) The UK and its overseas territories are custodians of the fifth-largest marine estate in the world, and - Speech Link
2: Lord Ricketts (XB - Life peer) I have never known as wide a gulf as exists now between a US President and an Israeli Prime Minister. - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) It is disappointing to see so few countries defending the shipping routes in the Gulf. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) taken to ensure the meaningful inclusion of women in every aspect of decision-making about Britain’s overseas - Speech Link
5: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) force for good and for our national interest and security, what we do and how we behave at home and overseas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) I doubt the current Indian Prime Minister accepts.We still have close political relations with the Gulf - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) I say to him that we now put over 50% of our aid into fragile and conflict-affected states, but he is - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The overseas ammunition acquisition plan from previous years remains broadly as it was, which amounts - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) We have already delivered 150 tonnes of aid, but the problem is getting that aid into Gaza. - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) The Foreign Secretary was misunderstood on a recent visit to the United States when he proposed that - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) This year I visited the United States—the White House and Capitol Hill—to lobby on behalf of Ukraine, - Speech Link
5: Jeff Smith (Lab - Manchester, Withington) Today we have seen news of another serious attack by the Houthis on a commercial vessel in the gulf of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) harm’s way in support of His Majesty’s Armed Forces, or through working with or for the UK Government overseas—from - Speech Link
2: None that I have supported charities which have done work on anti-trafficking in the Horn of Africa and the Gulf - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) relocated to Rwanda, including those who have supported His Majesty’s Armed Forces or the UK Government overseas - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Browne; that is, not people who have supported our Armed Forces overseas - Speech Link
5: None critical of the failures of the National Commission for Human Rights, which the UK Government pray in aid - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) We heard about the absolute unhappiness with the impact on charities and gift aid when discussing the - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) protection legislation and regulation will be applicable and competent to deal with AI, but there is a huge gulf - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Indeed, it is already being done for those operating in the states. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) tax but damages the UK businesses that should be able to compete on a level playing field with those overseas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) That shows the gulf between the sort of support, help and advice that one might expect as a victim of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Victim Support states that this is often the reason why victim-survivors do not seek support sooner.The - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I believe that our doing so sent a clear message, not only within the UK but overseas, that Britain is - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It explicitly states that victims are entitled to receive services regardless of resident status, which - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Lords Committee also suggested, in reference upon the Court of Appeal case of R (on the application of Gulf - Speech Link
2: None Friend said, that does not mean that we are a carbon copy of the United States—in fact, the United States - Speech Link
3: Rob Roberts (Ind - Delyn) period, more than 123,000 people have come to the UK on the basis of being granted British national overseas - Speech Link
4: Jane Stevenson (Con - Wolverhampton North East) We also met the United States Agency for International Development. - Speech Link
5: Jane Stevenson (Con - Wolverhampton North East) Friend agree that a focus on foreign aid and a united effort—[Interruption.] I thank the hon. - Speech Link