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Lords Chamber
Zimbabwe: Sanctions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) For example, our trade was £539 million in 2022-23, which is a direct challenge to what is sometimes - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) importance of civil society, particularly representation of workers in Zimbabwe, because international trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) He will be aware that several election observers were there, including from the Commonwealth. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) That shows the importance of the Commonwealth family. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) People will also ask serious questions about trade and investment. - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has a new five-year, £40 million LGBT rights programme - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bshp - Bishops) Peace brings development; development brings trade; trade is to our advantage and brings more development - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Old Windsor (XB - Life peer) My Lords, next Monday, we mark Commonwealth Day, and we look ahead to the biennial Commonwealth Heads - Speech Link
3: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) It acts as an important counterweight when considering with whom we trade. - Speech Link
4: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) The first is trade diversification. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) supporting free trade and upholding the international order? - Speech Link
2: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It sees potential in increasing trade with Africa. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Ahmad, when he says that trade and the Commonwealth offer significant - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) With the Department for Business and Trade, we are negotiating new free trade deals. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We co-operate closely with Rwanda on a number of issues, including the Commonwealth, climate change, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) paragraph 46 of Safeguarding the Union says that“the Windsor Framework applies only in respect of … trade - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) when that is in the interests of this country, and other wider interests that arise, whether they are trade - Speech Link
4: None Northern Ireland and we are clear that nothing in the Windsor Framework, including Article 2, or the trade - Speech Link
5: Lord Etherton (XB - Life peer) First, the travel information provided by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office remains the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None fleet lost seven different surface ships plus a submarine, but a Black Sea corridor has opened up for trade - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) if the rumours are true that among the other countries buying oil now is India, which is one of our Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The fall in Russian trade to the UK is now 99.7%. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He will know that I have worked with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and particularly - Speech Link
2: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) The closure of Watford’s Pryzm nightclub in January is a devastating blow to the local taxi trade. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) fleet lost seven different surface ships plus a submarine, but a Black sea corridor has opened up for trade - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) This is clearly a Treasury and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office lead, but I undertake to - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) The Business and Trade Committee recently took evidence from the National Crime Agency, which said that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ministry of Defence: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion - Thu 22 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) they should go to the Memorial Gates on Constitution Hill, which commemorate the tens of thousands of Commonwealth - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) From trailblazers such as Walter Tull to the Rajputana Rifles, the Gurkhas, Commonwealth personnel and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) Two weeks ago, the Prospect trade union published a damning survey of its female members who work in - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) , rather than an outcome of, a two-state solution.In this House we are used to division because our trade - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I will ensure that he gets an update on that issue from the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: Mhairi Black (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) The arms trade treaty bans the sale of weapons when there is a concern that they may be used to breach - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) The UK Government already have the means to do so through articles 6 and 7 of the arms trade treaty, - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) The best support we can give is to stop the arms trade with Israel, end the battle in Gaza at the moment - Speech Link