Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) steps in advance, not retrospective steps after the event, in order to prevent priority offences from taking - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) at school and universities is important, but that is an area where the Department for Education is taking - Speech Link
3: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole) British Jews woke up on 7 October to the pogroms and the associated rapes, butchery of children and hostage-taking - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) universities and schools, and the extra money for the Holocaust Educational Trust, so the Government are taking - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Of course, there are many all-party parliamentary groups and other cross-party groups taking an active - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) is worth remembering that on 7 October, 29 children were killed by Hamas and 39 children were taken hostage - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) If that work leads to the identification of specific cases in which someone would be better off taking - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Why are we taking action against the Houthis in the Red Sea? - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) obligations, which may change against the interests of a Labour Government and the British people, is a hostage - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Of course taking care of the citizens of this country is necessary and important. - Speech Link
Asked by: Nicola Richards (Conservative - West Bromwich East)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to help secure the release of Israeli hostages.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
The Foreign Secretary met the Sharabi and Popplewell families on 16 January to hear about their relatives' horrendous ordeals at the hands of Hamas. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary also met with hostage families on 21 January.
We will continue to do all we can to secure the release of all hostages. We need a humanitarian pause now to allow for the release of hostages. We will continue to do all we can.
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) else.Obviously what happened on 7 October was appalling by any stretch of the imagination, and the continued hostage-holding - Speech Link
2: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) this afternoon.I believe it is important that we do not become desensitised to the appalling suffering taking - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We believe that there are 10 steps that they should be taking to increase the flow of aid. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I hope that the House will welcome a more pragmatic approach to taking care of this important UNESCO - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Very sadly, the family recently confirmed that another relative, Yossi, who was taken hostage, has been - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Stone of Blackheath (Non-affiliated - Life peer) My Lords, many noble Lords taking part in this debate have said that in this war, one side is right and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Scores of Israelis remain hostage in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinians are being held in Israel. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) That person who takes the life of an innocent soul is akin to the person taking the life of all humanity - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) So taking Holocaust remembrance seriously means seeing the world as it is, and acting to prevent and - Speech Link
2: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) We first met on the March of the Living, an annual event taking place in Poland. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) of Israel on a solidarity mission to visit the site of yet another pogrom, to meet the survivors and hostage - Speech Link
4: Lord Gold (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I am very honoured to be taking part in this debate today and indeed to be following the noble - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Will the Leader of the House ensure that that happens more often, with the Foreign Secretary himself taking - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I say happy birthday to you, Madam Deputy Speaker.This week I met Ashley, the cousin of 19-year-old hostage - Speech Link
3: Nadia Whittome (Lab - Nottingham East) Will a Minister make a statement to the House on the various investigations that are taking place, and - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Labour ought to be taking notes, rather than smearing him and the hard-working people of Teesside who - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) ensuring that Israel is safe and secure, and that its citizens who have been kidnapped and are being held hostage - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) that country; is deeply concerned over Tehran’s growing use of terrorism, espionage, cyber attacks and hostage-taking - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) that country; is deeply concerned over Tehran’s growing use of terrorism, espionage, cyber attacks and hostage-taking - Speech Link
3: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) I appreciate that you are taking it seriously. - Speech Link
4: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) be tolerated, nor should be its support for Russia in the war with Ukraine, use of cyber-attacks, or hostage-taking - Speech Link
5: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Women’s representation in the Iranian Parliament sits at 5.6%.The UK is taking several bilateral and - Speech Link