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Westminster Hall
Afghanistan: UK Government Policy - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) their own daughters to be educated overseas. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) If we are to have any influence in Afghanistan, our economic aid—or grant aid, or whatever it might be—has - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) supports a full recognition of the Taliban, but there is space for a pragmatic, measured and reasonable middle - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Member for North East Fife. - Speech Link
5: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Member for North East Fife. - Speech Link
6: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) Member for North East Fife. - Speech Link
7: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Member for North East Fife. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) The CST is scrupulous in not offering any commentary on matters in Israel and the middle east or on foreign - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) The Bill will not change the UK’s approach to the middle east peace process or its position on settlements - Speech Link
3: Nicola Richards (Con - West Bromwich East) At a time when we strive for peace in the middle east, BDS inflames tensions and rejects co-existence - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases - Tue 09 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Member for East Londonderry (Mr Campbell) just mentioned, is that trachoma can be eliminated altogether - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Friend the Member for East Londonderry and others, including the hon. - Speech Link
3: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) Friend agree that even though the percentage of overseas aid fell from 0.7% to 0.5%, the Foreign Office - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) malaria vaccine as part of the solution.Good international development is not all about spending money overseas - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Member for East Londonderry (Mr Campbell) spoke about the return on investment. The hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Palestine - Mon 08 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Mr Speaker, the Christmas period has not brought peace to the middle east. - Speech Link
2: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) forced to withdraw and cease activities at Al-Aqsa hospital—the only functioning hospital in Gaza’s middle - Speech Link
3: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) How confident is he, however, that the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill will - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) east, are seeking to advance precisely the objectives that he so coherently put. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) Friend the Member for East Ham (Sir Stephen Timms). - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Derek Twigg (Lab - Halton) May I ask the Chancellor how many middle-income taxpayers have been paying the higher rate of tax since - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) aid budget to 0.7% of GNI? - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) Because the way we return the overseas aid budget to 0.7% is to grow the economy. - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) Mortgage costs and interest rates have gone up throughout the world, and we are in more or less the middle - Speech Link
5: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) Friend is right to recognise the east midlands investment zone, which will bring significant benefits - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Arbitration Bill [HL]
Second reading committee - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Arbitrations in England and Wales generate some £2.5 billion annually in arbitral and legal aid fees - Speech Link
2: Lord Hope of Craighead (XB - Life peer) We do not want to lose our place to others in the Middle East and elsewhere, who are marketing their - Speech Link
3: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) goes to the point that I was making that this should be a promotional Act, attractive to those from overseas—and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) some of the worst problems and the longest journeys relate to livestock going from Australia to the middle - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) protecting small abattoirs in Cumbria, which are the best in the country—they are family firms, they aid - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) animals exported to European destinations, particularly Hungary or Bulgaria, may be sent on to the middle - Speech Link
4: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) had a point. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) However, in the middle of the Christmas period, it feels very fast-forward, so I look forward to working - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) exploiting the most vulnerable.The 2018 Spicer review was a review of cases in Yorkshire and the north-east - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) Every company convicted of overseas corruption in this jurisdiction should be ordered to compensate the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) He focused on corruption and overseas victims of economic crime—I would add victims of economic crime - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
North Korea - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) nuclear weapons—he wants diplomatic relations with the United States; and he wants massive economic aid - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Article 4 abjures slavery, yet 90% of the wages of North Koreans who are able to work overseas are confiscated - Speech Link
3: Lord Sarfraz (Con - Life peer) The ship patrolled the East China Sea, in very rough sea conditions, ensuring that items destined for - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) What I saw in the fields of North Korea, just outside Pyongyang, was a long line of maybe 20 or 30 middle-aged - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Another day when the Foreign Secretary is unaccountable, in the middle of a war that could still get - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) The UK has no doubt about its sovereignty over the overseas territories. - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) What steps he is taking to help tackle destabilising activities by Iran in the middle east. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) east: one thinks in particular of the Emirates and Bahrain. - Speech Link