Written Evidence May. 16 2024
Inquiry: UK-EU data adequacyFound: applicable safeguards.10 The Commission arguably erred in not explicitly benchmarking UK law and practice against
Found: 2023/24 Israel-Hamas conflict: US, UN, EU and regional response
Oral Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: The future of news: impartiality, trust and technologyFound: The platforms are doing tests like that all the time, but against their commercial metrics.
Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) The question of the State of Israel is not raised here. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) was:“We will ban public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions - Speech Link
3: None campaigns against foreign countries”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) speaks with one voice internationally and has one foreign policy agenda, and that public bodies do not introduce - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) Banning public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) For example, the Bill will not prevent public authorities having a policy to comply with all UN sanctions - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) After all, it is the Government who have put down a Bill that talks about Israel and elides Israel with - Speech Link
4: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) If I was a government department and was going to introduce that machinery—which suddenly introduces - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) That has never been alleged against Ukrainians. - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) permission of anyone else, we do not need intense diplomatic efforts and we do not need the threat of sanctions - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) This Government are supposed to be against people smuggling, but people have no choice. - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Israel has a right—indeed, a responsibility—to defend itself against the threat from terrorists. - Speech Link
5: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Checks are made against immigration and criminality records. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) Given that incinerator capacity far outweighs waste, I welcome the Government’s decision to introduce - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) As desirable as tree planting is, that must be balanced against food security. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) Tackling violence against women and girls is a priority for the Government. - Speech Link
4: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) and we will target you.”That letter threatened sanctions not just against the ICC’s officials, but against - Speech Link
5: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) There are ongoing investigations of what is going on in Israel and Gaza by more than one international - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) against Iran and the link between the two.When my hon. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I was in Israel the week after Easter and had some talks with the Israel Defence Forces. - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) The UK Government need to commit to that, and to the continuation of sanctions against Iran.Since May - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) We have also announced plans to introduce further bans on the export to Iran of components that could - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Activists could, for example, promote BDS against Israel by claiming that it is required to avoid placing - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) The effect of the Bill as drafted is to introduce, by the back door, potentially vast swathes of international - Speech Link
3: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As for the Minister’s comment on sanctions, we already have powers in legislation to deal with sanctions - Speech Link
4: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) Sanctions certainly played a part. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) campaigns against foreign countries.’ - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) if this sports centre could not be built by a British contractor in whole or part because of fear of sanctions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) The Government’s explanation of the need for such extreme measures is that sanctions and boycotts of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) Can the Minister tell the Committee where the pressure has come from to introduce universities into the - Speech Link