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Westminster Hall
International Students: Contribution to the UK - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) in England, 21.3% in Northern Ireland, and 14.9% in Wales. - Speech Link
2: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) in Brussels recently and in Berlin just the other week. - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) Four of the top 10 universities in the world are in the UK. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Mon 04 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) They were dismissed in three sentences in the other place. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stroud (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I speak in support of Motion E1 in my name, and refer to my entry in the Members’ register - Speech Link
3: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We raise this regularly with the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government, and we continue - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) It may be in the best interests of many children to remain in the region given that it is common for - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Sinjar and the Nineveh plains in northern Iraq, where in August 2014 Daesh terrorists attacked peaceful - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) The push factors are enormous, such is the misery in the world in places such as Yemen, Syria, Iraq and - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) The UK is firmly committed to protecting ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Countering Russian Aggression and Tackling Illicit Finance - Wed 23 Feb 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) It happened in Hungary in 1956 when Russia sent in troops to invade the country as well as in Czechoslovakia - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) work in the UK to get our own house in order. - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) We are united in this House in support of NATO, in support of freedom, and in support of democracy and - Speech Link
4: John Baron (CON - Basildon and Billericay) I opposed war in Iraq, believing that we went to war on a false premise. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Yazidi Genocide - Tue 08 Feb 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) a population of Yazidis, a pagan minority existent for ages in regions of Iraq and Shām”,which is Syria - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) As we have heard, the Yazidis are a religious minority primarily residing in northern Iraq. - Speech Link
3: Chris Heaton-Harris (CON - Daventry) Work to promote and defend freedom of religion or belief in Iraq is at the centre of that strategy. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nationality and Borders Bill: LGBTQ+ People - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) 70 countries and punishable by death in 11, it is shocking that across Europe, one in three applications - Speech Link
2: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) an interview room in the UK. - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria. - Speech Link
4: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Given that in Scotland, we do not have the systems in place outside Glasgow, refugees in Aberdeen city - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Refugees: Mass Displacement - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) and a further 250,000 in the region of Amhara, according to the UN. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Before Christmas, I was in north Iraq and met Vian Dakhil, the Yazidi MP. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) In Ethiopia, conflict in the Tigray region and increasing insecurity in other parts of the country have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Afghanistan: Inquiry - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) Fourthly, we opened up another front in Iraq—an unnecessary and costly distraction. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LDEM - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) This was in 2009, eight years after we went in. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) The Chilcot inquiry into Iraq covered eight years of UK activity, beginning in the run-up to the invasion - Speech Link
4: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) , and our partnerships with countries in the region, we have helped to build global support for those - Speech Link
5: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) A Kurdistan area could develop north of the Hindu Kush, because the Taliban are not in control of the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kurdish Political Representation and Equality in Turkey - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) We all know, of course, that Saddam Hussein murdered over 100,000 Kurds in Iraq in the 1990s, one of - Speech Link
2: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) been looked at again in the report by the all-party parliamentary group for Kurdistan in Turkey and - Speech Link
3: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) region in Iraq and is deeply concerned with Kurdish affairs. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Milling (CON - Cannock Chase) We also have a shared interest in pursuing regional stability with Turkey, including in Syria, Iraq, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: Iran - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) In his speech last year, he spoke about Iranian terror activities in the region and here in Europe, and - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Iran and its network of Shi’ite ally militia groups have routinely attacked military personnel in Iraq - Speech Link
3: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) middle east, undermining democratic states and the social and economic order of countries in the region - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Whether with our presence in the region or sanctions from Westminster, we must continue through free - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) the Kurdistan region, as well as support for and direction of the proxy Shia militia forces in Iraq. - Speech Link