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Lords Chamber
LGBT Veterans Independent Review - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None Etherton demands more and we agree. - Speech Link
2: None cap badges, amendments to veterans’ service history and additional personal testimony to evidence collected - Speech Link
3: None That data will help officials and the community—working together—to design a fair and equitable scheme - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Tributes - Tue 19 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Earl of Courtown (Con - Excepted Hereditary) with her.I now turn to Tim Banting, who retired this year from the Parliamentary Archives team. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) left us in May, having given almost 27 years’ service from 1999, when she made her own little piece of history - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
LGBT Veterans Independent Review - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) cap badges, amendments to veterans’ service history and additional personal testimony to evidence collected - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Those testimonies will ultimately be lodged in the National Archives and they will be part of our national - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) In his statement, the Minister referred to amendments to veterans’ service history, which recommendations - Speech Link
4: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Our history is full of examples of the most courageous individuals who served in uniform and were gay - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Military Action in Iraq: Declassified Documents - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We remain proud of their contributions and actions. History must never forget. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) sometimes to look back in history and to learn lessons from our recent past. - Speech Link
3: Karl Turner (Lab - Kingston upon Hull East) Another would be to recognise that what motivated much of the action during that period in history was - Speech Link
4: Robert Courts (Con - Witney) released to the National Archives. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Media Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Member for Arfon has taken us through the history of S4C, and he is right to say that it now has widespread - Speech Link
2: None All the organisations placing things in the national television archives, and in the Scottish, Welsh - Speech Link
3: None In that way, we could ensure that history is properly recorded, properly saved and in a safe place. - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Preserving television and visual content is a way of preserving our history. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None disclosure for the purposes of archiving in the public interest, the Government recognise the importance of archives - Speech Link
2: None of it, but this is such a serious moment in our history as a species. - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) in England and Wales only, and the ICO and data protection legislation. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) guidance—that are accessible in the National Archives. - Speech Link
2: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) thank her personally for her service.In Islwyn, we have a strong history of supporting nuclear test veterans - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) programme in its archives. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) ES files that have been withdrawn from the National Archives. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) I then started to try to write history books, and that did not start very well either. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) He was the first historian to get the late Queen to open the royal archives so that we know what her - Speech Link
3: Lord Dannatt (XB - Life peer) Are we doomed to let history repeat itself? - Speech Link
4: Lord Wilson of Dinton (XB - Life peer) I look forward to learning the lessons of history from the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, and am delighted - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) , the rich, diverse history of our country, and the sacrifices of so many, made across the world, in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) its progress updates are in the National Archives. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) the joys of collaboration amid difference, division and the complexities of history. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ranger of Northwood (Con - Life peer) I begin by recognising the long history of this Chamber and the immense warmth and greeting I have felt - Speech Link
4: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) of our human history. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) strategy, published in 2022—so not yet in the National Archives—sets out key actions and initiatives - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 18 Oct 2023
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Affairs Committee that Dyfed-Powys police force now has more police officers than at any time in its history - Speech Link
2: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) and Unionist party, and she is very welcome. - Speech Link
3: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) Government, which has been opposed by over 460,000 signatories to the largest petition in the Senedd’s history - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We followed that up with the first long-term workforce plan in the NHS’s history, to ensure that we train - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) As the Ministry of Defence has admitted that it holds at least 150 files withheld from national archives - Speech Link