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

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) remember, within that context, that pretty much every applicant for asylum travelled through a safe, modern - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) I declare my interests as the co-chair of the APPG on Modern Languages and the honorary president of - Speech Link
3: None such as French, Spanish and Italian, and for German, it is much less reliable for languages with many - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Those who could not do it at secondary modern schools quickly tried to transfer to grammar schools, where - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) You will fail at learning a language using the modern processes because the language-processing parts - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) I went to one particularly inspirational school, where they had 43 basic first languages, and the headmaster - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Interpreting Services in the Courts (Public Services Committee Report) - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Morris of Yardley (Lab - Life peer) Together, there are 17,000 bookings a month in more than 150 possible languages, so, for the people whose - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) as Mandarin and many other Asian and African languages. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mott (Con - Life peer) It is encouraging to see this taking place in modern and Victorian-era prisons. - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) One can see that this may, in some cases, present difficulties with rare languages or dialects. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victory over Japan: 80th Anniversary - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley South) The diverse armies that fought together for our freedom reflect the very fabric of modern Britain. - Speech Link
2: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) More than 40 languages were spoken by troops, who were united in one ambition—to stand up and defend - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He is right to say that some 40 languages were spoken among the 14th Army, which gives us an idea of - Speech Link
4: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) most diverse fighting forces in history: men and women from across the empire, speaking dozens of languages - Speech Link
5: Lorraine Beavers (Lab - Blackpool North and Fleetwood) We must never allow ourselves to be complacent or to think that our modern world is immune.My community - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Fri 18 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) That analysis creates a solid foundation on which to construct a modern, flexible defence capability - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) Will the Minister guarantee that the budget for the Defence Centre for Languages and Culture will not - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) But it is what the whole thrust of modern, as opposed to traditional, warfare has introduced.Secondly - Speech Link
4: Baroness Mobarik (Con - Life peer) There is recognition that without access to space, modern defence, global influence and protecting our - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Justice Area Reform - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Of course, it is not only that; this language is one of the two official languages of the country. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) Member speaks; and secondly, a commitment to enhance flexibility for a modern magistracy. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
London’s National Economic Contribution - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Joe Powell (Lab - Kensington and Bayswater) Without modern, reliable public transport, we cannot unlock the new homes that London needs, or drive - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) constituency alone, which is not by any means one of the most diverse in London, well over 100 first languages - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Generative Artificial Intelligence: Schools - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Modern society has a new way of doing things, and I am not against the idea of doing that; it may just - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) whether for the production of lesson plans, the personalisation of learning, the translation of languages - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Prentis of Banbury (Con - Life peer) band, and it was an honour to oversee their work as Attorney-General.As a family, we enjoy learning languages - Speech Link
2: Lord Boswell of Aynho (Non-affiliated - Life peer) continuous renegotiation.I add here that it is important to maintain an emphasis on the teaching of modern - Speech Link
3: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) special committee has utterly failed to recognise that the world has changed, as has the nature of modern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Thu 26 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) economic dimension is to ignore one of the most significant consequences of border insecurity in the modern - Speech Link
2: None right that individuals who come into this country who are either exploited themselves and subject to modern - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) well as I do that, if offences are applied too broadly, refugees, victims of people smuggling and modern - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) the United Kingdom because of simple things such as speaking English as opposed to other foreign languages - Speech Link