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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Amendment 26, is the implication for charitable organisations delivering public functions in terms of overseas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Therefore, the ban would not restrict how such bodies decide, for example, to distribute humanitarian aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) As an example, if a young people’s badminton team were to be taking a tour of south-east Asia and felt - Speech Link
4: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) The Institute for Middle East Understanding has set out a long list of allegations of environmental misconduct - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) having two leaders of moral stature who were prepared to talk to each other, which we do not have in the Middle - 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


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) really indicates the ripple effect of what the Government are doing: other countries are praying in aid - Speech Link
2: William Cash (Con - Stone) law—I have never taken a different view—but in his speech Lord Coaker compared what is going on in the middle - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) included on the face of the Bill and our obligations to those who have helped us and our armed forces overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Middle East: Deployment of British Armed Forces - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) I hope the Labour Benches are focusing on this.In a more serious vein, the Middle East situation is extremely - Speech Link
2: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) Will the Minister confirm that it was three British-supplied drones that killed three British aid workers - Speech Link
3: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the last time that tensions rose in the Middle East, which sadly ended up with fighting going - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: James Heappey (Con - Wells) In the Euro-Atlantic, we face the challenge of Russia; in the middle east, the challenge of Iran and - Speech Link
2: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) shipments to the middle east. - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) The UK Government’s ability to deliver humanitarian aid depends on the UK’s relationship with its middle - 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


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) Friend the Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) said, because we are seeing real reduction in some - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) and canned hunting, which includes Action for Primates, A-LAW, Animal Defenders International, Animal Aid - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) I am in the middle of a quote, but I think the President will forgive me for allowing the hon. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) made the point well about taking photographs - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) the import ban will not prevent a UK resident or citizen from participating in hunting while they are overseas - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Iran and its proxies are destabilising the middle east, and, via the Houthis, pose a constant threat - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) In a world with increasing Iranian-inspired violence in the middle east, sulphurous threats over Taiwan - Speech Link
3: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Scanning across Europe, south-east Asia and the middle east, we see that this is a world where there - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) That comes back to what we used to call the defence planning assumptions about how many operational overseas - Speech Link
5: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) to Ukraine within our overall aid package worth almost £12 billion. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) It is very important that the UK Government are working with the right figures, for aid purposes and - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is a tragedy that is unfolding, and that is why we want to see a pause in fighting to get that aid - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) As the north-east has the highest rate of suicide, its work is vital. My right hon. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We had a Westminster Hall debate on 5 September last year about British nationals who are detained overseas - Speech Link
5: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) figures have said that the reason why Conservative MPs are being sent home on a one-line Whip until the middle - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) diplomats take seriously concerns raised about human rights violations and are seen not to potentially aid - Speech Link
2: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) East, and it will not come back to the West. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) East, the Far East and to Russia; they apply to all of us, in different ways. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) power and the influence that UK institutions can wield through the BBC, the British Council and our aid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) Many of my overseas, foreign friends are envious of the ISA. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bshp - Bishops) The amounts of bilateral overseas aid going to least-developed countries dropped by £961 million in 2021 - Speech Link
3: Lord Tugendhat (Con - Life peer) Since then, the world has become a good deal more dangerous, as a result of events in the Middle East - Speech Link