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Westminster Hall
Internationally Recruited Health and Social Care Staff: Employment Practices - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I want us to channel Beveridge and do what he would do today, which I am certain would be to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) I see the benefits and the strength that comes from the people of the islands that make up the United - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) 3 service;(d) Channel 4;(e) Channel 5.””This new clause would give OFCOM powers to measure the delivery - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Events, to ensure its status on terrestrial TV.”Obviously, that is proposed in new clause 16.These islands - Speech Link
3: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) which I sit, has launched an inquiry on the future of Gaelic and other minority languages in these islands - Speech Link


Grand Committee
General Aviation (Persons on Board, Flight Information and Civil Penalties) Regulations 2024 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Are the Channel Islands are added on, or not? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Two-thirds of all those who have crossed the channel since the Illegal Migration Act was passed came - Speech Link
2: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) Crossing the Mediterranean kills many more than the Channel. - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) in international law, the Bill is odious and an affront to the 800 years of the common law of these islands - Speech Link
4: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) what the Australians did when they faced a similar problem over outsourcing to Nauru, near the Solomon Islands - Speech Link
5: Viscount Hailsham (Con - Life peer) I believe that individuals who choose to make the perilous journey across the channel in overcrowded - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Iran (Sanctions) Regulations 2023 - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) there is an exception for authorised conduct in a relevant country and the relevant country is the Channel - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 17 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) This is the third Tory law on channel crossings in two years. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) What happens to the rest of the people left in immigration limbo to wander the streets of these islands - Speech Link
3: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) nothing compared with the duty to stop people suffocating in lorries or drowning while crossing the channel - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) was shocked to hear it.This is the Third Reading of the third Bill in two years to try to stop the channel - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) After all, if the freezing waters of the channel that can take a life in a matter of minutes are not - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) We received a great degree of scrutiny over the relationship between Channel 4 and the Government, which - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) by Chester Zoo in its letter to Peers, around 90% of the world’s oil palm trees are grown on a few islands - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) ferret to bring it slightly back down again caused a huge amount of distress to people up and down these islands - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) have made is reducing the number of in-flows into the UK, particularly via small boat crossings of the channel - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) , the key principle behind the Bill is to help us to bring to an end the egregious crossings of the channel - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) We welcome the proscription of Hizb ut-Tahrir.Five more lives were tragically lost in the channel this - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Lady in expressing sadness and condolences for those who lost their lives in the channel. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill   - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) arrived, I had to seek assurances from it that it would not be engaging in live exports across the channel - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) not disadvantage Scottish farmers, particularly regarding livestock movements between the Scottish islands - Speech Link
3: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) emphasise that any changes must recognise Scotland’s established patterns of livestock movement from the islands - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) Obviously, the low-lying islands of the Pacific and some in the Caribbean are first in line, but there - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) migration and therefore concerns us directly as we attempt to reduce the numbers coming across the channel - Speech Link