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Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) But it is only to challenge them; we do not want foreign policy to fail. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) values and we do not protect our country but inflame the very problem we are trying to address. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) ourselves: to see things not only through our own eyes; to hear things not just through our own ears - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) do trying to protect women and girls.Women’s rights are the backbone of resilient, peaceful and democratic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) Things are designed not to burn. Why do we not design cars not to be stolen? - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) We have to change that and it is not cheap to do so. - Speech Link
3: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) a decision not to do harm. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) we are not able to do that now. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Israel/Gaza - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) Palestinian human rights do not equate to antisemitism or endorsing Hamas. - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) international law for Israel to do what it is doing now, and what it needs to do: to enter Gaza, not - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) Fatah and Hamas do not talk to each other. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We celebrate our democracy for its right to protest but that protest must be without incitement to hatred - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None do so, we will start by directing our questioning to you. - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (CON - Kensington) to do something that they will not be allowed to do. - Speech Link
3: Wayne David (LAB - Caerphilly) We do not want this Bill to one day prevent our campaign from being successful. - Speech Link
4: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) do it—okay, it’s illegal, but we would like to do it—but we are not saying we are going to do it,” I - Speech Link
5: Kim Leadbeater (LAB - Batley and Spen) look up a law, or at least they do not have to go to so many lawyers. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
British Nationals Detained Overseas - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) Does he agree that we ought to use our position in the CPTPP to restrict Chinese entry to the bloc as - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) That has to be just as much part of our foreign policy as our mercantilist desire to do better trade - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) We do not need to debate it, we just need to agree it. I therefore claim that that is the problem. - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) There are many parts of the job that we are elected to do that our constituents expect us to do. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) why the Bill does not do what the Government intend it to do. - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) the Bill, but that they themselves do not support it.If we are now to have questioned our position on - Speech Link
3: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) That is not a surprise, but that should not be a reason for us to resile from our commitment to do something - Speech Link
4: Tommy Sheppard (SNP - Edinburgh East) They have sought to restrict our freedom to dissent and protest, but this Bill goes further, as others - Speech Link
5: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) Members do not have to take my word for it. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Consideration of Lords message - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) We do not expect that situation to change. - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) They are bringing in legislation to make it easier to sack workers when we do not have enough workers - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) Trade unions in our democracy are not meant to be agents of a Government. - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Of course, the Government do not want to give the responsibility for the work notice to the employer, - Speech Link
5: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) But the Government do not want to follow the Italian model; they want to be in line with Hungary and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Order - Mon 12 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It seems to me that the law of the land is not hard enough the first time round to ensure they do not - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) Our right to protest does not offer absolute relief from our responsibility to allow other citizens to - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It is why the House should have nothing to do with this legislation.I do not want to detain the House - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) more power to restrict protest. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) There are those who say protest does not work, but the right to roam our countryside happened only because - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Office will also do what the officials have been told to do: not seek to mislead us but use information - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) going to take any notice”, but we do not need to be lectured on how we should not attempt to revise - Speech Link
3: None It is our law that we do not send someone to a country if it is not a signatory to the refugee convention - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) change, but this is not the way to do it. - Speech Link
5: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) That is not something we would want to do. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghan Women and Girls - Tue 06 Jun 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) I do not know how someone deals with that, to be honest, from a mental health perspective, so yes. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) With acts ranging from peaceful protest to posting on social media, Afghan women have resisted. - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) The Government are not prepared to do anything about it. - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) We will continue to use every diplomatic and development lever at our disposal to restore girls’ rights - Speech Link