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Lords Chamber
Iran and Israel - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord True (Con - Life peer) additional RAF Typhoons to the region as part of our existing operations against Daesh in Iraq and Syria - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) We must return to sanctions. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Secondly, the Statement makes no reference to the Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria. - Speech Link
4: Lord True (Con - Life peer) My Lords, it was not actually an attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) have spent time with, and campaigned alongside, survivors of atrocity violence, from Yazidi women in Syria - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Our sanctions against those fuelling the violence in Sudan have not gone far enough and came too slowly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We could talk about Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen, Venezuela, the DRC, Syria and Ethiopia —the list goes on. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Lab - Life peer) hope that, after dealing with the nuclear issue, we would move on to tackling the problems that, in Syria - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) They cannot return any more than Jews can return to their former homes in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) Iran and its satellites in Syria, Yemen and Gaza are determined to spread their hate across the western - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) Can we start to think about what action we will take—what sanctions we will propose—against Israel if - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) Will the Minister tell the House a bit more about those sanctions, because they are working? - Speech Link
3: Rehman Chishti (Con - Gillingham and Rainham) this, but the UK can have an international donors’ conference for Palestine—we did this for friends of Syria - Speech Link
4: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) Today, Israel faces attacks on eight fronts: Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, the west bank, Yemen and Iran - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) settlement policy, and recognise the plight of those thousands of Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, Syria - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Iran: Military Power - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) political movements in at least six countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Syria - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) Iran has been subject, on and off, to quite stringent sanctions for some 40 years—yet it has developed - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) On drone technology, we introduced a new set of sanctions in December, and last month all components - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We also use financial and other sanctions, disrupting supply chains for all forms of activity. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) We do not support boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns towards Israel—they wrongly single out - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) I was on the Golan Heights the week after they were taken from Syria to stop Syria shelling the Israeli - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) persecution of Chinese students on campus because of their Government’s actions; and no marches against Syria - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 introduced a very tough sanctions regime in the Magnitsky - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Palestinian State: UK Recognition - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Only yesterday, we announced for the first time some sanctions against violent settlers who are carrying - Speech Link
2: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) My Lords, there are 200 land-based conflicts in the world, half a million dead in Syria, the world’s - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) am then sent to Rwanda, where I may get tortured or killed, then I have a ground, but if I am from Syria - Speech Link
2: None The largest number of asylum seekers who come crossing in small boats come from Afghanistan and Syria - Speech Link
3: None They will say that the less rigorous application of procedures and sanctions will not apply in Northern - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Kurdistanis elected their first Parliament in 1992 and, despite harsh Iraq and UN sanctions, laid the - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) religious cohesion for more than 2 million members of religious minorities displaced from Iraq and Syria - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Iran-aligned militia groups have targeted coalition forces across Iraq and Syria more than 160 times - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) Financial Times today because it outlines how Iran has been using Lloyds and Santander accounts to evade sanctions - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) just American troops—I often hear it is American personnel have been attacked 160 separate times in Syria - Speech Link