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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 Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) For example, environmental campaigns, including ones against fossil fuels that are not country specific - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) All public bodies must be free to avoid investment in fossil fuels, which are contributing to climate - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) It will therefore not prevent public local authorities divesting from fossil fuels or other campaigns - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) That is a critical area, as extraction of coal and other fossil fuels is often part of government strategy - Speech Link
3: None The Bill will not prevent public authorities divesting from fossil fuels on a non-country specific basis - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, is unable to be in the Chamber today because of other responsibilities overseas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) As I said in Committee, high-carbon products obviously include fossil fuels, flights, SUVs and plastics - Speech Link
3: None This will enable the Treasury to amend the gift aid rules in the Income Tax Act 2007. - Speech Link
4: None other device.(5) A secondary ticketing facility must make it clear to traders and businesses based overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) loss to understand why the Treasury does not accept the arguments to reintroduce tax-free shopping for overseas - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) that we must ensure, as a nation, that we construct those floating wind turbines in the UK rather than overseas - Speech Link
3: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) also disappointed that the opportunity was not taken to address the issue of renewable liquid heating fuels - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) allowance; he could have reversed tax cuts for the big banks and put in place a proper windfall tax on fossil - Speech Link
5: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Fossil fuel giants have never had it so good. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) Thirdly, global emissions from fossil fuels reached record levels again in 2023. - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. - 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: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) community in particular, declines to give a Third Reading to the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) example, Friends of the Earth has said that the Bill will“prevent public bodies from divesting from fossil - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) will continue to advocate for an immediate bilateral ceasefire, securing hostage release, delivering aid - Speech Link
4: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) economic ends above the lives of tens of thousands of innocent children, women, teachers, doctors, aid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) and electricity use, like the freezing of fuel duty and the tax treatment of air travel, subsidises fossil - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) The diminution in criminal legal aid by 41% since 2010—the cause of the barristers’ strike—has destroyed - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) enough purchasing power, and the Government have starved the public sector of investment, which then fuels - Speech Link
4: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) that I believe the present Prime Minister made when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer to disallow overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Research suggests that there is £10 billion to be made in lost GDP at the moment, as we are not attracting overseas - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) The Tories have cut taxes for the big banks and let fossil fuel extractors off the hook from the windfall - Speech Link
3: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) which the Government have said will involve people losing access to free NHS prescriptions and legal aid - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) We must stop investing in fossil fuels; otherwise, we will accelerate the climate catastrophe. - Speech Link
5: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) 18 months to new sanctions that could see people losing access to free NHS prescriptions and legal aid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Development White Paper - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) However, multilateral aid will fall to just 25% of aid spending by 2025. - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) my constituents who are so concerned about the absence of any measures in the King’s Speech against fossil - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Debt in Africa - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) I call on our Government to outline how our international aid policies are addressing the unique impact - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) As a campaigner for Christian Aid, then for Methodist aid and then for the Catholic Agency for Overseas - Speech Link
3: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) Aid and loans to Africa, along with personal remittances from Africans working abroad, are worth far - Speech Link