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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


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Apr. 19 2024

Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024
Document: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024 (webpage)

Found: the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The overseas ammunition acquisition plan from previous years remains broadly as it was, which amounts - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) We have already delivered 150 tonnes of aid, but the problem is getting that aid into Gaza. - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) The Foreign Secretary was misunderstood on a recent visit to the United States when he proposed that - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) This year I visited the United States—the White House and Capitol Hill—to lobby on behalf of Ukraine, - Speech Link
5: Jeff Smith (Lab - Manchester, Withington) Today we have seen news of another serious attack by the Houthis on a commercial vessel in the gulf of - Speech Link


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


Lords Chamber
International Development White Paper - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) The White Paper is silent on protecting the overseas development assistance budget from raids from other - Speech Link
2: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) recover.At the time of the merger and the cuts, David Cameron said it would mean“less respect for the UK overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We have been signing memorandums of understanding with, for example, partners in the Gulf, on supporting - Speech Link


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.


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Cooperation group, stepping up collaboration with the USA or building investment partnerships with Gulf - Speech Link
2: Lord Peach (XB - Life peer) We have had our era of overseas operations; we also need to pay attention to our homeland. - Speech Link
3: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) We are faced with a very unstable situation in the United States, and it could be that US aid is reduced - Speech Link
4: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) , and even states within states. - Speech Link


Deposited Papers

May. 10 2011

Source Page: Britain open for business: growth through international trade and investment. 45 p.
Document: DEP2011-0755.pdf (PDF)

Found: While the European Union and the United States of America remain the major markets for British companies


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It is popular to make sure that we properly defend these isles and defend our interests overseas. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) with an expansionary China—may lie not in the South China sea, but on the coasts of Africa, in the Gulf - Speech Link
3: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) I have mentioned the United States. - Speech Link
4: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) We have laid on various welcome home events when people come back from overseas deployments and laid - Speech Link