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National Audit Office
International - Mar. 25 2024
Report - Progress with the merger of the FCO and DFID (PDF)

Found: Kenya Regional security, peace and stability, trade and investment, and humanitarian support.Spent


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) Blessed are the peacemakers, who not only speak words of peace, but make peace, for they shall be called - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) , and if so how, the FCDO’s important work on human rights and FoRB is being reflected in our trade negotiations - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Just a few weeks ago, we raised the plight of the Baha’i community in Yemen and Iran, the Ahmadi Muslims - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
The office and functions of the Prime Minister - CBP-9880
Mar. 15 2024

Found: Authorising the Cabinet Secretary to facilitate coalition negotiations 10.


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) debate economic equality and justice while women in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, Eritrea, Syria, Yemen - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) Vivian Silver, a Canadian peace activist who founded Women Wage Peace, was killed on 7 October by Hamas - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) by women and the majority of those who took strike action over the last couple of years and who led negotiations - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 07 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) agreements include provisions that reference women, girls and gender, despite women having led successful negotiations - Speech Link
2: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) What role are women playing in peace negotiations? - Speech Link
3: Maguire, Ruth (SNP - Cunninghame South) The accompanying human suffering is horrific, as we are witnessing in Ukraine, Yemen and Gaza. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) This includes Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah, militia groups in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) Negotiations for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza continue. - Speech Link
3: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) The Houthis’ deputy foreign minister, Hussein al-Ezzi, said:“Yemen will continue to sink more British - Speech Link
4: Lord Mitchell (Lab - Life peer) That is true, but the Oslo accords and the negotiations in 2000 came very close. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) In Yemen, in DRC, in Ethiopia, in Sudan and South Sudan and in Ukraine, conflict has exacerbated a global - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Secondly, the published value of UK arms sales licensed to Saudi Arabia since the bombing of Yemen began - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Some force themselves upon us, such as the Houthi war in Yemen, and affect our shipping and food prices - Speech Link
4: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) A peace treaty will be signed one day; there is no choice. - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Nothing would do more to help these negotiations, to build trust in the area, and to win the consent - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 04 2024

Source Page: Post-Legislative Scrutiny Memorandum: Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018
Document: Post-Legislative Scrutiny Memorandum: Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (PDF)

Found: Yemen ................................ ................................ ............................


Lords Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) recognising a Palestinian state—not wait for the end of the process but give hope so that talks and negotiations - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) Finally, in all the penumbra of the situation in Israel and Gaza there is the spectre of Iran in Yemen - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We are seeing Qatar play an important role in hostage negotiations. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) which we all recognise as a state, declines to recognise Palestine as a state, and the longer-term negotiations - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Our approach is that every country, every nation across those pieces, from the negotiations to the delivery - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
Conflict in Ukraine: A Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression - CBP-9968
Feb. 22 2024

Found: process at the UN, see: Security Council R eport, Security Council Deadlocks and Uniting for Peace