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Lords Chamber
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) consultation of the Chagossian people, and recognising the right of Chagossians to be registered as British Overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Indeed, my noble friend Lord Cameron told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee at the time:“We face a - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) aid to Mauritius—we thank him for his work. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) That surely demonstrates a contempt for the two committees, which is deplorable. - Speech Link
5: Lord Houghton of Richmond (XB - Life peer) It was part of my overseas command responsibilities when I was Chief of Joint Operations. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Amendments to the Act require consent from British overseas territories and Crown dependencies—to which - Speech Link
2: Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) It proposes a fine as the appropriate sanction, which is in line with best practice overseas. - Speech Link
3: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) , Solace Women’s Aid and Karma Nirvana, which contacted Members before the vote in 2022. - Speech Link
4: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Nobody can bind a future Parliament, but we can demand that it is not small Committees of hand-picked - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Committees and that policymaking is a separate thing. - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) As we know, the Secretary of State has already written to the Chairs of the relevant Select Committees - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) I do not want to undermine anything that the Select Committees might do, jointly or separately, and like - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) Committees asked us to do. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
EU-UK Summit - Thu 22 May 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) is exactly what the defence deal will mean.I also welcome the proposals for co-operation on foreign aid - Speech Link
2: Alex Ballinger (Lab - Halesowen) What does he say to people from Boston and Skegness who would like to study overseas? - Speech Link
3: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) Will EU students pay the overseas rate or the home student rate for higher education tuition fees? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 22 May 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) So the arrangements that we put in place in Clause 3—which everyone is intending to aid the joint working - Speech Link
2: Lord Agnew of Oulton (Con - Life peer) The Commons Select Committee raised this issue of a lack of clarity, so can any be provided? - Speech Link
3: None However, it was even more useful in aggregate, because the audit and compliance committees were able - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) will remember the child benefit data loss in 2007, the cyberattack and theft of data from the Legal Aid - Speech Link
5: None Here, I think the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, also talked about children who had come from overseas. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
2nd reading2nd Reading - Mon 19 May 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Melton and Syston) I have been on a number of Bill Committees, and gently hinting to the Minister areas where we might press - Speech Link
2: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) Despite having worked in healthcare for most of my career and serving on the Health and Social Care Select - Speech Link
3: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) nearly 1,000 young people are detained annually, yet over half report that their hospital stay did not aid - Speech Link
4: Zöe Franklin (LD - Guildford) series of attempts on her life until she tragically succeeded, after gaining access to a poison from overseas - Speech Link
5: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberafan Maesteg) a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.(6) Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 15 May 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) airlines, which might hold travel records that are relevant to investigations of fraud conducted overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Disability groups have already raised this concern, and today’s report from the Work and Pensions Select - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Lichfield (Bshp - Bishops) , Lord Vaux, pointed out—that this debate coincides with the publication of the Work and Pensions Select - Speech Link
4: Baroness Alexander of Cleveden (Lab - Life peer) Finally, I have endured more audit committees than I care to recall. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) It is the difference about aid overseas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 01 May 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Bichard (XB - Life peer) Your Lordships’ own Public Services Select Committee, which I sat on at the time, concluded in 2021 that - Speech Link
2: Lord Biggar (Con - Life peer) I call in aid two facts. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) The Education Select Committee was right in its recent report to recommend a national offer of support - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) noble Lord, Lord Hampton, and the noble Baroness, Lady Garden, I sit on the Social Mobility Policy Select - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 01 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) I also thank the many Members and Committees of the other House for their assistance in creating what - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) customers or those that supply them, it inhibits the very things that support those businesses and aid - Speech Link
3: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) It may have been bisque-fired overseas, imported and then decorated and glazed in the UK, but it will - Speech Link
4: Adam Thompson (Lab - Erewash) I spent many years on standards committees working through these things. - Speech Link
5: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) We have all been to Delegated Legislation Committees. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee Report - Fri 28 Mar 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) There are issues on legal aid to fight public law decisions. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bates (Con - Life peer) aid played in tackling some of the pressures on human trafficking at source. - Speech Link
3: Lord Moraes (Lab - Life peer) That is what the Select Committee report was about. - Speech Link