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Commons Chamber
Defending the UK and Allies - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) We have seen attacks on US soldiers in Syria and Iraq, the terrorism of Islamic State in Iran, the rockets - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Has he considered whether it is the right time to activate the snap-back sanctions provisions of the - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) have been killed, and there has been cross-border fighting with Hezbollah, air raids in Lebanon and Syria - Speech Link
4: David Jones (Con - Clwyd West) Friend said about the sanctions that have been applied to the IRGC, but may I urge him to recognise that - Speech Link
5: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) There is greater conflict in the middle east now than there has been for many years—in Lebanon, Syria - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) I should say that the clause does not prevent the Government establishing sanctions or using travel bans - Speech Link
2: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) There is a clear intention in the Bill, which is to deal specifically with the boycott, divestment and sanctions - Speech Link
3: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) not seen attempts by local government to criticise, for example, the actions of Bashar al-Assad in Syria - Speech Link
4: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) start by making clear that the Labour party completely opposes a policy of boycott, divestment and sanctions - Speech Link
5: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) If sanctions or boycotts need to be imposed, that is a decision to be made in this House at a national - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trial of Jimmy Lai - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) prison.A new axis of totalitarian states has formed, including China, North Korea, Russia, Iran and Syria - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We continue to look at those under the global human rights sanctions regulations in this arena, but we - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) It is no good just monitoring human rights sanctions across the globe; my right hon. - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We continue to use sanctions tools across the piece at every opportunity where the evidence comes to - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) How often do we speak about what is going on in Syria or in Yemen? - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) sanctions—to hold to account officials in Belarus, Haiti, Iran and Syria who are complicit in repressing - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) meetings were others on Afghanistan—including about women and girls and our humanitarian support—Yemen and Syria - Speech Link


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: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) We invoke Magnitsky sanctions against human rights abusers around the world. - 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: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) a risk—I would say a vanishingly small one—that failed asylum seekers might be sent back to Iraq or Syria - Speech Link


Written Statements
Trade Sanctions Implementation Update - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) implementation and enforcement of trade sanctions.Over the last year, the Government have implemented sanctions - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Israel and Palestine - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) how to reach that outcome, but from Northern Ireland and Colombia to Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon and Syria - Speech Link
2: Tahir Ali (Lab - Birmingham, Hall Green) and hold those responsible for such crimes to account, including through the imposition of practical sanctions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Mon 11 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (XB - Life peer) Connected with that, we should continue to pursue the regime of sanctions where it is justified, not - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Government for leading debates at the HRC, and for raising issues and tabling resolutions concerning Syria - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Lady Helic that we have led on resolutions establishing or removing UN accountability mechanisms for Syria - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Together with the US, the UK has targeted Hamas with a new tranche of sanctions in an effort to disrupt - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) matter.If Governments such as mine can call out the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China and can implement sanctions - 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


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) Members will have other countries that they prefer to talk about.Let us take the situation in Syria. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) One of the first tools used to prevent mass atrocities is targeted human rights sanctions. - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) it.Sadly, many of the tools of the multilateral system, such as Security Council resolutions and UN sanctions - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Together with the United States, last month we targeted the Hamas leadership with a new tranche of sanctions - Speech Link