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Westminster Hall
Excess Death Trends - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) There has been a steep rise in cardiac deaths in both Australia and Singapore, as well as the UK. - Speech Link
2: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Pandemic management requires societal coordination, global orchestration, respect for human rights and defence - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) They flew officials out to Australia and Singapore, where I grew up and where we lived under strata title - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) I have to be honest: even once you have got in touch with guys from Singapore, Hong Kong, the middle - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) That is the standard defence in law, and we did this at the end of covid. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Intelligence and Security Committee, reflecting the work of this House’s own International Relations and Defence - Speech Link
2: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) Indeed, with regard to the eight ILO conventions, Brunei has ratified only two and Malaysia and Singapore - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defending the UK and Allies - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord True (Con - Life peer) The right to self-defence is inherent in Article 51. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) I have just returned from Singapore, and I looked out on the Malacca Strait and saw what harm a lack - Speech Link
3: Lord True (Con - Life peer) This is not aggression; this is an act of self-defence and defence of international law. - Speech Link
4: Lord True (Con - Life peer) For the first time, our annual defence budget is over £50 billion. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) 1978 in the Chamber of this House, I read a letter from the general counsel of Raytheon, the massive defence - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) It is indeed competitive: was it last year or the year before when Singapore equalled the amount of arbitration - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Sarfraz (Con - Life peer) patrol vessels: HMS “Tamar” and HMS “Spey”.I declare an interest as the Prime Minister’s trade envoy to Singapore - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) As defence spokesperson for these Benches, my immediate thought was of the international consequences - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) It included a defence agreement. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) They will be followed by Japan in April, and then Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Hong Kong and Singapore - Speech Link
2: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) That helps to pay for our NHS, our education, our defence, and many other public services that we all - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None concern for increasing large foreign donations to the Conservative party from people based in Dubai, Singapore - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Decisions made by the UK Parliament on foreign policy, defence, immigration, as we have heard from the - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) The days are gone when, to pay for the welfare state, the Government could raid the defence budget, which - Speech Link
2: Lord Harrington of Watford (Con - Life peer) People have a small-state fantasy about countries such as Singapore and others—that we can be Singapore-on-Thames - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) The same can be said for Taiwan and Singapore, which have no immigration to speak of and are as rich - Speech Link
4: Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury (Con - Life peer) It is more than we spend on education, twice as much as we spend on defence and five times as much as - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) My former Secretary of State is now the Defence Secretary; I know him well, and I am fairly sure that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) We have become a dialogue partner of ASEAN and agreed ground-breaking digital deals with Singapore. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con - Life peer) Government’s political objective of the tilt to the Indo-Pacific region, which was reinforced by the defence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) Trade is part of foreign policy and, indeed, defence policy. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) by-product of the war with Russia, this Government will work more closely with Europe, not only in defence - Speech Link
5: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) region strategically, economically, philosophically, culturally and for reasons of alignment through defence - Speech Link