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Public Bill Committees
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Thu 30 Jun 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) For households from a Pakistani ethnic group, median income before housing costs was £350, while households - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) They can be very important to protect the rights of minorities, but they can also be used—the US Senate - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commonwealth - Thu 30 Jun 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Guildford (Bishops - Bishops) country I was privileged to visit in 2019, there is systemic discrimination against Christians and other minorities - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (CON - Life peer) becoming less tolerant, more autocratic and less safe for millions of its own population, including minorities—Christians - Speech Link
3: Baroness Flather (CB - Life peer) Lord Ahmad, will have something to do with it and resolve something that is terrible.A very senior Pakistani - Speech Link
4: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) trade agreement ever be enough, for example, to change Prime Minister Modi’s discrimination against minorities - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Eighth sitting) - Thu 30 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) For households from a Pakistani ethnic group, median income before housing costs was £350, while households - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) They can be very important to protect the rights of minorities, but they can also be used—the US Senate - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion or Belief: International Conference - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) IRFBA helped trigger one of our countries to provide visas for targeted religious minorities, and another - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) family to the UK, help them get on their feet and make sure that they are integrated within the British-Pakistani - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) Our Government should be the leader in the world in speaking out in favour of religious minorities and - Speech Link
4: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) Gentleman asked whether the Government would prioritise the persecuted minorities in Afghanistan as well - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) me and other colleagues with large ethnic minority communities in their constituencies, such as the Pakistani - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) 20,000 people at risk a new life in the UK, including women and girls, members of ethnic or religious minorities - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) They need to provide decent routes, particularly for Kurds and other minorities that might find neighbouring - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) The UK is firmly committed to protecting ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities - Thu 17 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) That is an example of a country that cares about ethnic minorities and about children in the system. - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) That is an example of the sort of silencing of ethnic minorities that we are seeing across the board. - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) The commission found that the issues that affect black Caribbean, black African, Bangladeshi, Pakistani - Speech Link
4: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) Most were black or from other ethnic minorities: 60% were black and the rest were some kind of minority - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gender Specific Religious Persecution - Thu 17 Mar 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) privileged to chair the all-party groups on international freedom of religion or belief and on the Pakistani - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) First, when women are poor, and they belong to religious minorities in societies where people from a - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Mother Language Day - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Mark Logan (CON - Bolton North East) I think of my Gujarati community, along with a significant Pakistani community, as a massive opportunity - Speech Link
2: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) This is especially important in communities where significant ethnic minorities are present—here in the - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) independence.Successive UK Governments have a proud history of standing up for minority groups, including linguistic minorities - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Muslim Community in Wales - Wed 23 Feb 2022
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) terms of ethnicity, the 2011 census showed that the majority of Muslims in Wales were from families of Pakistani - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) We must support—with our votes as well as our words—more members of ethnic minorities to stand for the - Speech Link
3: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) As is the case elsewhere, the Muslim community is largely of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Arabic but also - Speech Link
4: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) alone, including the South Wales Islamic Centre in Butetown, and others for Somali, Bangladeshi and Pakistani - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 12 Jan 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) Aylesbury has a sizeable Pakistani diaspora. - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) My Department has been working across Government to promote vaccine uptake among ethnic minorities. - Speech Link
3: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) More worrying is that approximately one in four black British, British Bangladeshi and British Pakistani - Speech Link