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Select Committee
New Lines Institute, and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Oral Evidence Jun. 06 2023

Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: were actually conditions when Syria returned—the issues of the return of Syrian refugees, of Syria’s detainees

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
HM Passport Office

Jan. 08 2024

Source Page: Authorisation and consent: needed to issue a passport
Document: Authorisation and consent: needed to issue a passport (PDF)

Found: How we authorise a detainee’s passport application Detainees will include: • British nationals

Parliamentary Research
Freedom and democracy in Iran - CDP-2024-0019
Jan. 26 2024

Found: Rouhani was Iranian president from 2013 to 2021 and signed the 2015 Nuclear Agreement with China, Russia

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Jul. 13 2023

Source Page: Human Rights and Democracy Report 2022
Document: Human Rights and Democracy: the 2022 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office report (PDF)

Found: China did not publish statistics on executions, but independent estimates indicate China remained

Select Committee
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Oral Evidence Mar. 13 2023

Inquiry: The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: We can talk more about this, but our understanding is that the primary interlocutor to China was their

Select Committee
Oxfam GB
 BII0104 - Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions

Written Evidence Sep. 05 2023

Inquiry: Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: cap set by government.11 Other evidence of expensive out-of-reach healthcare 14.Arrail Dental in China

Select Committee
Formal Minutes 2023-2024

Formal Minutes May. 02 2024

Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: Brook House Kate Eves, Chair of the Brook House inquiry, Anna Pincus, Director of the Gatwick Detainees

Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) We often talk of China and the violation of the agreement that we made when Hong Kong was handed over - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) In their view, to comply with that, we could not reasonably turn detainees around within 48 hours; we - Speech Link
3: None How do we speak to China about its breach of the treaty we made with it over Hong Kong? - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 11 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Overseas, and on the Passing and Receipt of Intelligence Relating to Detainees. - Speech Link
2: None In 2019, the Government published The Principles Relating to the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees - Speech Link
3: None We have friendly countries, democratic countries; we should not intend to treat them as if they were China - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) intelligence agencies say is, in effect, an arm of or has some interaction with the Communist Party of China - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
Report stage - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) such as the Principles, which relate to the detention of and the passing of intelligence relating to detainees - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Overseas, and on the Passing and Receipt of Intelligence Relating to Detainees. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) published, such as the Fulford principles, where the passing and receipt of intelligence relates to detainees - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) against foreign interference in British politics and British life by hostile foreign powers—above all, by China - Speech Link
5: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LDEM - Life peer) cannot see any valid reason for treating NATO members as foreign powers on the same basis as Russia, China - Speech Link