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Select Committee
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, and Heritage Foundation

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

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: captured states.


Select Committee
Middle East Program, CSIS, RUSI, Jonathan Wilks, and The University of Exeter

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

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: captured states.


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) ensuring that the base on Diego Garcia remains permanently available for our use, and for the United States - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman will recognise that I look after the Defence budget, rather than the overseas development budget - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The UK continually assesses potential threats to our overseas territories, including the sovereign base - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I have visited the majority of countries in the middle east and Gulf region to discuss exactly the points - Speech Link
5: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) to enhance our Indo-Pacific security, and meanwhile our trilateral AUKUS partnership with the United States - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Our forces’ sheer range of commitments, from global engagements to domestic MACAs—military aid to civil - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) light on that.This is not a Eurocentric issue; we must also be aware of the increasing tension in the Gulf - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) greater than other measures of inflation, partly because a lot of our defence equipment is imported from overseas - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) to Ukraine within our overall aid package worth almost £12 billion. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) Recently, we have seen sportswashing Olympics held in China and Russia; Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) It would appear that the Gulf states, America and China are not terribly interested in hosting the Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) As we have seen, for many countries, from Afghanistan to the Gulf states, this is an issue. - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning

Mar. 06 2024

Source Page: Hynet Carbon Dioxide Transportation and Storage Project - Offshore
Document: Environmental Statement - Volume 1 & 2 (PDF)

Found: These countries are Brazil, Canada, and the USA (only within the Gulf of Mexico) (Nelms et al., 2016


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) The UK and its overseas territories are custodians of the fifth-largest marine estate in the world, and - Speech Link
2: Lord Ricketts (XB - Life peer) I have never known as wide a gulf as exists now between a US President and an Israeli Prime Minister. - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) It is disappointing to see so few countries defending the shipping routes in the Gulf. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) taken to ensure the meaningful inclusion of women in every aspect of decision-making about Britain’s overseas - Speech Link
5: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) force for good and for our national interest and security, what we do and how we behave at home and overseas - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) I doubt the current Indian Prime Minister accepts.We still have close political relations with the Gulf - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) I say to him that we now put over 50% of our aid into fragile and conflict-affected states, but he is - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

Feb. 29 2024

Source Page: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information - Thematic report on the coverage of statelessness (February 2023)
Document: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information - Thematic report on the coverage of statelessness (February 2023) (PDF)

Found: The translation into COI is that an important purpose of COI is to aid assessment of claims to possess


Deposited Papers

Feb. 23 2024

Source Page: Deter, disrupt and demonstrate: UK sanctions in a contested world: Incl. annexes. 28p.
Document: world.pdf (PDF)

Found: A world marked by hostile states, terrorist organisations, cyber threats, criminal gangs, and a whole