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Lords Chamber
European Convention on Human Rights: 75th Anniversary - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Its 14 articles protect basic rights, from the right to life to the rights to privacy, conscience and - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) , which codified historic British rights. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) of British citizens at home and abroad. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
2nd reading - Mon 10 Feb 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) They will be voting against the action that we need, and voting in favour of the criminal gangs, letting - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) Gentleman not agree that the European convention on human rights and the European Court of Human Rights - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) It is judges who have extended the European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
4: Dan Aldridge (Lab - Weston-super-Mare) values of fairness, tolerance, human rights and the rule of law. - Speech Link
5: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) British citizenship is a privilege, not a right. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Feb 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Department seek out low-hanging fruit, people who have a genuine disability could be denied their rights - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) I know that there is an impact assessment and a human rights assessment. - Speech Link
3: Jon Trickett (Lab - Normanton and Hemsworth) If so, that is a massive incursion into the liberty that the British people hold dear. - Speech Link
4: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab - Hendon) A further £250 million was lost to those who were abroad. - Speech Link
5: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool Wavertree) protected in the Human Rights Act. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Nov 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I am proud that this Government have introduced the Employment Rights Bill, which will support women - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) On Thursday 5 December, the business will be a debate on detained British nationals abroad, which is - Speech Link
3: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) I rise to point out the recent changes to the proxy voting scheme. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The proxy voting change that I have just announced will be on the Order Paper for consideration by the - Speech Link
5: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The British Government are supporting the interim Government in Bangladesh as they work to restore peace - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 25 Jul 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) taken up my duties, as part of the new Labour Government, a Government who are proud to serve the British - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bshp - Bishops) That insight has always been at the heart of all that is best in British values. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stone of Blackheath (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Navigating these complex difficulties will be a significant task for the British Government. - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) It needs to be said again and again to the British people—not just to the British politicians but to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Foreign Affairs and Defence - Thu 18 Jul 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough) Together we will make Britain more secure at home and strong abroad. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) as it is today and injected real energy into British diplomacy. - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) breach of human rights law. - Speech Link
4: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) We are making real the rights that we all hold in common. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) are qualified rights, which can be restricted in reasonable circumstances. - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) under the European convention on human rights, irrespective of where they may be transferred. - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) nationals whom the Government really want to send overseas. - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) Obviously that was wrong, because the rights of the child—not the rights of the father—should be at the - Speech Link
5: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) anyone will ever end up going abroad. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) to foreign nationals. - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) to foreign nationals. - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) to foreign nationals. - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) ISDS can be of great benefit to British companies abroad, and it protects jobs and livelihoods at home - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) None the less, it protects British businesses abroad and makes Britain a more attractive environment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) That brings in the British Council and the British high commissions and embassies. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) on the trafficking amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill that only British nationals could be referred - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) She ignores the fact that, from the British accession to the European Convention on Human Rights until - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) and duties.Human rights are not an opt-in or opt-out concept, and Section 4 of the Human Rights Act - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) That is what the Human Rights Act was all about: bringing human rights home. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) It is certainly not good enough for what any British Government and British Parliament should do.Above - Speech Link
2: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) A British judge sits on the court and British lawyers are involved in its administration.In Rule 39 orders - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Human rights are for all of us. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Do they somehow stand outside the universality of human rights? - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) rights in the Belfast agreement. - Speech Link