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Grand Committee
China: Security and Trade (IRDC Report) - Thu 20 Oct 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) They do not aid clarity; indeed, they often confuse. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) That is about the equivalent of the entire—reduced—British overseas aid budget.This is not philanthropy - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) aid contribution to helping these countries face their own main challenges. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Overseas firms are being pressured into technology transfers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economy: The Growth Plan 2022 - Mon 10 Oct 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) In the United States, Jay Powell is absolutely determined to drive down inflation, and rightly so. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bishops - Bishops) discussions continue.As so many have noted, the growth plan’s proposed tax cuts are untargeted and hardly aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) the ones that encourage people to work, which encourage and support entrepreneurs and which attract overseas - Speech Link
4: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) Rather, I sense that President Modi and Gulf potentates are looking at and eyeing up this country rather - Speech Link
5: Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise (CON - Life peer) perhaps, as I have suggested elsewhere, through a visa tax that would ensure that UK employers employ overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tributes to Her Late Majesty the Queen - Sat 10 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Amanda Milling (CON - Cannock Chase) That love and admiration stretched across the world, as I saw on overseas visits. - Speech Link
2: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) She reigned through Suez, the Falklands, the Gulf war, Bosnia, Kosovo and Libya, to name just a few, - Speech Link
3: Conor Burns (IND - Bournemouth West) famous visit to Ireland in 2011, and the many conciliatory gestures she made in Northern Ireland to aid - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) He was part of the battle management group for the first Gulf war and was hosting the Queen in High Wycombe - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Human Rights Abuses and Corruption: UK Sanctions - Thu 21 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) is also, I would argue, about Saudi Arabia.It is great to be starting a possible trade deal with the Gulf - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) constituents expect our taxpayers’ money to be used for humanitarian and other purposes, and not to be used to aid - Speech Link
3: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) The treatment of those with British national overseas status as China tightens its grip on the region - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) not even got time to mention the many examples that we have heard from across the middle east and the Gulf - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) the foundation of the NHS, we have been the first Government to have the nerve and a plan to fix the gulf - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) city of Stoke-on-Trent.Let us look at the fact that jobs were leaving the ceramics sector and going overseas - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) They do incredibly important work—the majority of it funded by legal aid—yet the median income of junior - Speech Link
4: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) There was the U-turn on keeping overseas aid spending at 0.7%; the refurbishment of the Downing Street - Speech Link
5: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) oligarchs and the businesses that finance President Putin’s war machine, to provide the humanitarian aid - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Procurement Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) character who received no substantial assistance from any of the gods—perhaps they will come to the aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) market access is guaranteed only to suppliers from the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and British Overseas - Speech Link
3: None through their digital pipelines to less regulated jurisdictions such as Dubai and Hong Kong, or British Overseas - Speech Link
4: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) what the noble Lord, Lord Alton, said about listing genocide there.I have a particular interest in Gulf - Speech Link
5: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) that those states uphold. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strategy for International Development - Wed 06 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) So, when Samantha Power, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) to countries overseas is not a binary choice. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) I have worked for Christian Aid, Oxfam, CAFOD—the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development—and Water - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) Member for Cannock Chase (Amanda Milling), who is our lead on international development, is in the Gulf - Speech Link
5: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) We will target how we spend resources in fragile states or countries that need extra support, and we - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Jun 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Mike Freer (CON - Finchley and Golders Green) Exports to Saudi Arabia are up 53% and exports to the Gulf in general are up 16.2%. - Speech Link
2: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) According to Action Aid, the UK’s position on trade and women’s rights has yet to be set out through - Speech Link
3: Mike Freer (CON - Finchley and Golders Green) support our world-class seafood exporters, and held food and drink spring export showcases in the UK and overseas - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) There are significant opportunities for British exporters to the Gulf states that are members of the - Speech Link
5: Ranil Jayawardena (CON - North East Hampshire) Friend has raised the great opportunity there is with the Gulf Co-operation Council. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Foreign Lobbying - Wed 25 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) Member for Isle of Wight says, the law courts are a very useful tool for proxies of state actors overseas - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) I am thinking particularly about the Gulf states—nominally allies, yet ones whose Governments have shown - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) I used to work for Christian Aid and WaterAid and was involved in coming to talk to Members of Parliament - Speech Link
4: Heather Wheeler (CON - South Derbyshire) (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022, which was passed in March, to establish a new register of overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 18 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (CON - Life peer) We are also preparing to begin negotiations on new trade deals with Mexico and the Gulf Cooperation Council - Speech Link
2: Lord Sentamu (CB - Life peer) However, since then, overall UK aid has been cut … and aid to Pakistan has been reduced dramatically. - Speech Link