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Commons Chamber
International Trade and Geopolitics - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Darren Jones (LAB - Bristol North West) We clearly already collaborate on defence matters, but what we define as critical supply chains or as - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) He and I share a concern for the defence of taxpayers’ money: if it is going to be spent, it should be - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) the talents that we have and a great need for the various skills that we can provide in economics, defence - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) That is why trade is forged at the heart of our economic security and defence policy as we adapt to the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
CPTPP: Conclusion of Negotiations - Wed 19 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) countries—Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) to join the accession process for CPTPP.I went round Asia last week—I went to Japan, Australia and Singapore—and - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) It makes us relevant in a core area, in terms of our long-term national defence. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Commonwealth Day - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) in the UK, including as a civil servant for the City of London social services and the Ministry of Defence - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Last year, four of our fellow members—Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados and Singapore—repealed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Integrated Review Refresh - Mon 13 Mar 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Between 2010 and 2021, the Government cut the defence budget by 16%. - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) My first set of bilateral visits as Foreign Secretary was to Japan, South Korea and Singapore. - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) We have fantastic defence industries here in the UK. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 10 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Cynthia Goh, who sadly died, led Singapore and the whole of that region, highlighting the importance - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) We now know that much of even the reduced budget is now being spent in this country on refugees and defence - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) professions, and mindful of my own observations about gender imbalance when I was Secretary of State for Defence - Speech Link
4: Baroness Helic (CON - Life peer) constitutions of 1964 and 1976, was already a reminder that human rights are fragile and that without defence - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Committee stage - Wed 01 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Tyrie (Non-affiliated - Life peer) A slow and legalistic approach is also a frequent complaint.In defence of the financial regulators, for - Speech Link
2: Lord Turnbull (CB - Life peer) How could one possibly object to acting“reasonably and in good faith”as a defence against sanction under - Speech Link
3: Lord Tyrie (Non-affiliated - Life peer) before the Upper Tribunal, and possibly a complete defence if a person could show that they had acted - Speech Link
4: None and it is increasingly being emulated in other jurisdictions, including free-market beacons such as Singapore - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
Report stage - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) Notably, the risk with a public interest defence is that, at the point that the defence comes into play - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) Other wealthy British expatriates live in Thailand, Singapore or Hong Kong. - Speech Link
3: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) It has changed the automatic exemption to a more limited defence using similar wording to the defence - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) Instead, the new defence imposes an evidential burden of proof on the individual to raise the defence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Mon 20 Feb 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) Alongside the shadow Defence Secretary, I had just returned from Kyiv. - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) back many Defence Procurement Ministers, I hasten to add. - Speech Link
3: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) Together with our allies, not just in the G7 but from around the world—everywhere from Australia and Singapore - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) On air defence, we said no to Patriot missiles until we said yes. - Speech Link
5: Richard Foord (LDEM - Tiverton and Honiton) of Defence for repeatedly stating that this is Ukraine’s war. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 Feb 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) Member for Chelsea and Fulham (Greg Hands), held talks with his counterparts in Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore - Speech Link
2: Emma Lewell-Buck (LAB - South Shields) insurers are using environmental, social and governance criteria to block companies that work in the defence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
2nd reading: Part 1 - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) I do not buy the “only following orders” defence given by Dame Elizabeth when she said that“we have a - Speech Link
2: Baroness Crawley (LAB - Life peer) that we have every right to be concerned about the Bill.Deregulation in order to compete—the famous Singapore-on-Thames—is - Speech Link