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Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) only 228 decisions on asylum claims in 2020, and rejected claims from countries such as Afghanistan, Syria - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) People will always go that extra mile to seek a new life abroad. - Speech Link
3: Simon Fell (Con - Barrow and Furness) we should be proud of the schemes for Hong Kong residents and people from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Syria - Speech Link
4: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) This Bill does reputational damage to the UK at home and abroad. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Islamophobia - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) The only people you represent are foreign nationals.”“That’s the problem with Islam. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Offord (Con - Hendon) conflict for hundreds of years and is the basis of proxy conflicts happening right now in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) We have perhaps become accustomed in this place to debating Islamophobia abroad. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Middle East: UK Military Deployments - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) nationals who have been kidnapped. - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman also asked about British forces in the wider region who may be in, for example, Syria or Iraq - Speech Link
3: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) interests or British nationals? - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) May I also thank the Government for working tirelessly with partners abroad to bring home British nationals - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) We need to strike trade deals and build partnerships that deliver prosperity at home and abroad. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) We should promote dialogue with communities here and abroad. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) Key Hamas leaders are living abroad, and many fighters will have dispersed into the wider population. - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) They came mostly from what is now Syria and Lebanon. - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) affairs and defence, it would be putting on a statutory basis access to consular services for those joint nationals - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) that that would be entirely successful, given the fact that these devices are available online from abroad - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) However, both of these are a precursor to renting prison space in foreign jails for British nationals - Speech Link
3: Lord Roberts of Llandudno (LD - Life peer) It might be to Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Gaza or even our fellow nations of the UK. - Speech Link
4: Lord Macdonald of River Glaven (XB - Life peer) prisoners to jails abroad, and, perhaps most undignified of all, judges having to delay sentencing hearings - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Sending prisoners abroad to serve their sentences is an overt admission of failure. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) throughout in our calls for a humanitarian pause as soon as possible to get aid in and hostages and foreign nationals - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) We have assurances that, when the blast furnaces in Port Talbot close, Tata will import steel from abroad - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) the world—in Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan, Libya, the Sahel, south Asia, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Israel/Gaza - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We have facilitated flights for those British nationals wishing to leave Israel, bringing out more than - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) All noble Lords talked of the need to release them, and not just the British nationals. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord True (CON - Life peer) We are also helping British citizens who want to leave Israel. - Speech Link
2: Lord Newby (LDEM - Life peer) visit under the auspices of a UN youth and student association to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) nationals, to leave Gaza via Rafah—but that is not the position at present. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) military force on behalf of the Russian state, operating in a range of theatres including Ukraine, Syria - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (CON - North Somerset) nationals overseas”.Given the scale of the activities that Wagner Group are involved in, they would - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It states:“Founded in 2014, Wagner Group has operated in a range of theatres, including Ukraine, Syria - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the issuing of arrest warrants for Hong Kong nationals - Speech Link
2: Vicky Foxcroft (LAB - Lewisham, Deptford) What steps he is taking to provide consular support to British nationals detained overseas. - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) Supporting British nationals abroad through consular assistance is an FCDO priority and of concern to - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) citizens detained abroad, whose families have severely criticised the Government’s weak, complacent - Speech Link
5: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) including America, Canada, France and Germany, have repatriated their citizens from detention facilities in Syria - Speech Link