Mentions:
1: Lord Risby (Con - Life peer) Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, supported by his linkages to countries such as North Korea and Iran - Speech Link
2: Lord Rogan (UUP - Life peer) Given the global reach of AUKUS and the US Government’s recent welcome decision to sell arms worth $75 - Speech Link
3: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) With nuclear proliferation and the fear of using those arms potentially dissipating—I come from a school - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) recently passed legislation to establish an AUKUS nations exemption to the International Traffic in Arms - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) Has the time come to stop selling to Israel arms that are being used to raze Gaza to the ground? - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) to a viable Palestinian state by recognising it and by upgrading current Government advice against trade - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) conversations that the Foreign Secretary will have had last week with Prime Minister Netanyahu, I cannot trade - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Foreign Secretary will be aiming to achieve, particularly at a time when we are negotiating a free trade - Speech Link
5: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) The Foreign Secretary has ambitions to further strengthen that relationship through trade and wider people-to-people - Speech Link
Feb. 13 2024
Source Page: Financial sanctions guidance for maritime transportFound: They commonly include arms embargoes, trade sanctions, travel bans and financial sanctions.
Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Friend share my concern about Iran bankrolling and arming Hamas? - Speech Link
2: Ben Bradshaw (Lab - Exeter) the violent illegal settlers, following in America’s footsteps, but why can we not have a ban on all trade - Speech Link
3: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) The criteria outlining who can receive arms export licences from the Government include strong wording - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) In respect of arms licences, she may well know that Britain has the most demanding export licence regime - Speech Link
Oral Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: support Iran.
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: Saudi Arabia and Iran, arguably the two main regional powers, are involved in a complex but, for the
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: by terrorist groups such as Islamic State, the proliferation of arms, narcotics and climate-related
Mentions:
1: Lord True (Con - Life peer) Yes, it is about defence and security, but it is also about trade, investment, culture and more. - Speech Link
2: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) limited compared with the global nature of the threat posed by continued Houthi military action on world trade - Speech Link
3: Lord True (Con - Life peer) I know that he and I are very committed, as is my noble friend the Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, - Speech Link
4: Lord True (Con - Life peer) frankly, it is tantamount to a piratical attempt to interrupt the right of people all over the world to trade - Speech Link
5: Lord True (Con - Life peer) noble friend is absolutely right that the Gulf countries are important for our interests, particularly trade - Speech Link
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: technical support, support for small and medium-sized enterprises, and extension of opportunities for trade
Mentions:
1: None culminating in Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel 10 days ago conducted in parallel with the proxies Iran - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) global crises, which we see from authoritarian regimes—as His Majesty’s Government have suggested, Iran - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) of 400 protected, armoured and all-terrain vehicles, and nearly 4 million additional rounds of small-arms - Speech Link
4: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) I would like an assurance that there will be negotiations with the trade unions in the implementation - Speech Link