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Lords Chamber
Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) This regret amendment is not about whether Georgia and India are safe countries for trade or tourism, - Speech Link
2: None prevent future religious and other violence against minorities in any country, but most particularly in a Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: None international organisations including from human rights organisations, and information from the Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (IAC Report) - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) For example, when we have signed an FTA with a Commonwealth country, not a single one has had a Commonwealth - Speech Link
2: Lord Marland (Con - Life peer) Two-thirds of the countries that have signed up to this agreement are Commonwealth countries. - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) up CPTPP are Commonwealth members. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) The instrument contains trade measures developed in close co-ordination with our G7 allies. - Speech Link
2: None More than £20 billion-worth of UK-Russia trade is now under sanction, resulting in a 99.64% fall in Russian - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) about not just sanctions with our G7 partners but looking more broadly at our European neighbours and Commonwealth - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) We have talked about Commonwealth countries—the noble Baroness mentioned this—and it is really important - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) Slave labour undercuts the World Trade Organisation and normal trade. - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) However, I know that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office absolutely opposes them, because - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) So only a further 0.33%—not 33%—of total UK trade will come under the new trade agreements.The reality - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) We should remember that a lot of African nations are our brothers and sisters in the Commonwealth. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) instead have been focused on taking back control of our border security from the criminal gangs who trade - Speech Link
2: William Cash (Con - Stone) is a cohort of internationalists in various Government Departments: the Home Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: None and Crossbench peers in the House of Lords last week, it seemed to be an outrage to try to stop this trade - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) on Second Reading, I visited Rwanda, as have a number of Members who have spoken, in 2018 with the Commonwealth - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) amendments to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.Tuesday 19 March—Remaining stages of the Trade - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Democrat policy to have a presumption of denial for arms sales to countries on the most recent Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will certainly ensure that the Department for Business and Trade, which has oversight of this matter - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) No other Department has missed the deadline; only the Department for Business and Trade. - Speech Link
5: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) He represented my constituency of Rutherglen for 23 years, and was a committed trade unionist in the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum and Migration - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) That forced the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to cease all non-essential programmes, as - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) country—and increasing life expectancy, so it is important that we do not malign Rwanda.Rwanda joined the Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) ODA, that should not be an excuse to minimise the amount of ODA being spent elsewhere by the Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) started coming in large numbers in 2018 to work with our European partners and allies to end the vile trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
India: Democratic Freedoms - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (XB - Life peer) criticism of India’s abuse of human rights in the same strident terms they reserve for Russia and non-Commonwealth - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Will the Minister reassure me that officials from the Department for Business and Trade who are negotiating - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Would he agree that the Irish people have contributed an enormous amount of support to the Commonwealth - Speech Link
2: Mark Logan (Con - Bolton North East) I know he is very passionate when it comes to the issue of the Commonwealth, but I might get slippery - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) I pay tribute to the many local trade union representatives in Luton who are of Irish descent. - Speech Link


General Committees
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) This regulations contain trade measures developed in close co-ordination with our G7 allies, and ratchet - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) got in last year’s Budget, we have been able both to grow our sanctions directorate in the Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link