Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) The distress and anxiety of leaving a child behind are overwhelming, and many of these women choose to - Speech Link
2: None It is not something that they expected from the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) Windrush generation encountered, but failing to recognise that caring is part of the culture of some other nations - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None We are strongly supportive of Ministers in all four nations having the power to regulate flavours as - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) This Bill gives powers to Ministers in the four nations to make sure they can restrict these products - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) I want to ask about pregnant women. - Speech Link
Report May. 01 2024
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)Found: The UK Government has signed the crucial 2023 United Nations Global Ocean Treaty, but the Committee
Found: Between 2000 and 2022, t he UK saw the biggest increase among G7 nations in the proportion of 25 - to
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Prime Minister's keynote speech at the Society of Editors 25th Anniversary Conference: 30 April 2024Found: And we face an axis of authoritarian states… …Russia, Iran, North Korea, China… …who are united by
Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Brave men and women from these islands and the Commonwealth fought and died in defence of the values - Speech Link
2: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) we have is senior people like the former Home Secretary and the former Prime Minister who compared women - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) atrocities, actually has a very different meaning—that if, God forbid, holy war is required, innocent women - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) politicians who have a view and who were democratically elected by overwhelming majorities in both their nations - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Gentleman will recognise that the predominant view of the region, of the United Nations and of the regional - Speech Link
2: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) With the UK having defunded the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, still supplying arms to Israel - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I returned overnight from the United Nations in New York as part of Britain’s contribution to the international - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Cyprus and the United Nations. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None for Education’s Secondary Headteacher Reference Group; National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women - Speech Link
2: None The legislation does include mandatory age verification for Scotland, but not for the remaining nations - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gallacher, Meghan (Con - Central Scotland) The United Kingdom Parliament voted in favour of establishing buffer zones in England and Wales that - Speech Link
2: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) We are united by our commitment to Scotland, but we hold a range of views on many issues, including the - Speech Link
3: Slater, Lorna (Green - Lothian) Before it received royal assent, the Northern Ireland bill was referred to the Supreme Court of the United - Speech Link
4: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) committee, I first encountered anti-abortion activity outside clinics during a trip to Oregon in the United - Speech Link
5: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) Including an exemption would make Scotland an outlier among the UK nations and offer less protection - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are working with the United Nations and World Health Organisation in their efforts to strengthen laws and policies to protect women and girls from female genital mutilation in The Gambia, as committed to in the International Women and Girls Strategy 2023 to 2030.
Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK's position is clear that female genital mutilation (FGM) is a human rights violation. The Deputy Foreign Secretary spoke to The Gambia's Foreign Minister on 9 April and met with the Minister for Public Services on 29 April, to relay the UK's deep concern about the progress in The Gambia's National Assembly of the bill that would legalise FGM. He highlighted the serious implications if the bill were to become law, including for The Gambia's international reputation. The UK continues to engage broadly through regular contact with senior Gambian Government officials and other stakeholders. We are working with international partners to coordinate and complement messaging and activity.