Select Committee

International Centre of Justice for Palestinians

MENA0065 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-12-08/hcws449 33 Sky News, Rishi Sunak to hold emergency COBRA

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Select Committee

First Report - A hostage to fortune: ransomware and UK national security

Report Dec. 13 2023

Committee: National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: 355 The Record, Ransomware incidents now make up majority of British government’s crisis management COBRA

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Select Committee

Lord Harris of Haringey, and Greater Manchester

Oral Evidence Dec. 11 2023

Committee: National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: If you sit in a COBRA meeting, it is very immediate, 5 there are screens on the wall, action points

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Select Committee

Lord Maude of Horsham

Oral Evidence Dec. 11 2023

Committee: National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: If you sit in a COBRA meeting, it is very immediate, 5 there are screens on the wall, action points

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Cabinet Office

Nov. 30 2023

Source Page: How schools narrow attainment gaps between ethnic groups
Document: How trusts and schools narrow attainment gaps between ethnic groups: a preliminary investigation (PDF)

Found: (Trust chief executive) Another trust used what they called “COBRA” -style meetings – i.e., those with

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Written Question

India: Military Exercises

Wednesday 29th November 2023

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) bilateral and (b) multilateral military exercises have taken place with India since 2010.

Answered by James Heappey

The following exercises have taken place since 2010:

• 28 bilateral exercises (14 Navy, seven Army, seven Air Force)

• Six multilateral exercises (Maritime Partnership 2021, Konkan Shakti 2021, Milan 2022, Cobra Warrior 2022, RIMPAC 2018 and 2022)

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Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Justice

Nov. 28 2023

Source Page: Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Document: Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 (PDF)

Found: systemic threats to the department, which includes assessing intelligence from the Cabinet Office’s COBRA

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Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Justice

Nov. 28 2023

Source Page: Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Document: Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 (print) (PDF)

Found: systemic threats to the department, which includes assessing intelligence from the Cabinet Office’s COBRA

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Select Committee

Professor Jim Gallagher, and Professor Ciaran Martin

Oral Evidence Nov. 13 2023

Inquiry: Intergovernmental relations: 25 years since the Scotland Act 1998
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: At the start, they were part of the Cobra system, and we might go into why that changed.

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