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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) The continued erosion of democratic rights and freedoms in Hong Kong is deeply concerning. - Speech Link
2: Luke Akehurst (Lab - North Durham) Two pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong have disbanded recently, activist Joshua Wong was rearrested and - Speech Link
3: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) This is increasingly having an impact on business operations in Hong Kong, and is something that is well - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) freedoms in Hong Kong. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Black History Month - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I commend the Minister and the Government for bringing us this debate. - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) make recommendations to embed lasting change in the Home Office and across Government. - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) It is vital that this Government build on that and lean into it, as the Minister said. - Speech Link
4: Diane Abbott (Ind - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) I do not hear the same anxiety and concern about migration from Hong Kong or Ukraine. - Speech Link
5: Diane Abbott (Ind - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) The hue and cry about immigration today does not apply to migrants from Hong Kong or Ukraine. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
2nd reading - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) I conclude by asking the Minister if the Government will step back and frame a bold and transformative - Speech Link
2: Viscount Goschen (Con - Excepted Hereditary) the cracks between central and local government. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) passed and this Government have kept. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) experience in the police.In a long career in and outside government, at the top and on the front line - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) Yesterday, we saw finger pointing and “gotcha” moments from both the Government and the Opposition Benches - Speech Link
2: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government said that the Government“would never - Speech Link
3: Chris Ward (Lab - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven) I do understand that, and I am genuinely not trying to play politics. - Speech Link
4: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) Will the Government include all Chinese officials, Hong Kong special administrative region officials - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Knife Crime - Wed 15 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Will Stone (Lab - Swindon North) Although I agree that the Government can always do more, I will praise their Crime and Policing Bill - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) They respect the police and they respect authority; they expect their Government to defend them. - Speech Link
3: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) all I ask is that the Government recognise that we have done far too much of the former, and far too - Speech Link
4: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) The previous Government put a record number of police on our streets, and when the Conservatives left - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) Members, the Government and the Crown Prosecution Service. - Speech Link
2: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) It is the world’s second largest economy, and, together with Hong Kong, the UK’s third largest trading - Speech Link
3: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) The CPS and the DPP are rightly independent of Government. - Speech Link
4: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) myself as the Minister and from colleagues right across Government—to provide assurances and satisfy - Speech Link
5: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) the UK, so will the Government now implement targeted sanctions against the officials in Hong Kong and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage part two - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) to allow the convention to exist as a convention and to allow Parliament, this Government and any future - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) I commend it to the Committee and the Government. - Speech Link
3: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) holders from Hong Kong. - Speech Link
4: Lord German (LD - Life peer) It is absolutely shameful and the Government ought to rescind the Secretary of State’s statement and - Speech Link
5: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) This suited the previous Government, and this suits us as well. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) It was accepted by the Government and was part of the 2017 Act. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) safe routes to citizenship for Syrians, Ukrainians and Hong Kong citizens were widely supported across - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LD - Life peer) New financial and English-language proposals are being put forward by the Government, and I will come - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) The resettlement schemes for Syrians, Afghans and Ukrainians, not to mention the Hong Kong BNO route, - Speech Link
5: None We became the Government in July last year and are now on our 14th month of government. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ambassador to the United States - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) How do we make this Government tell the House and the nation the truth, the whole truth and nothing but - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) This is a Government of sleaze and scandal, and Labour MPs know it. - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) : that they would restore honesty and integrity to Government. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) It is the obligation and the responsibility of Government to ensure that Parliament and the public are - Speech Link
5: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) He gained experience with Chris Patten in Hong Kong—later Baron Patten—and then with Lord Ashdown when - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day of Democracy - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) From Tbilisi to Hong Kong, hard-won freedoms are being eroded, legislatures hollowed out and the voices - Speech Link
2: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) Kong, Georgia, Serbia and elsewhere; and fund development and diplomacy properly by reversing aid cuts - Speech Link
3: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) We continue to call on the Hong Kong authorities to end their politically motivated prosecution and release - Speech Link