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Commons Chamber
Bill of Rights - Wed 22 Jun 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) claims on overseas military operations”, but does he recall that some of the gravest crimes of the Iraq war - Speech Link
2: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Many of our constituents have seen the benefits of human rights, such as the bereaved unmarried widows - Speech Link
3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) International Criminal Court prosecution and investigations on the ground in Ukraine to hold the commission of war - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 18 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (CON - Life peer) We are cutting funding to Putin’s war chest through sanctions and crippling his war machine. - Speech Link
2: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) forces; that they prevent war if they are strong enough—and when war happens, which I am afraid it will - Speech Link
3: Lord Mendelsohn (LAB - Life peer) If we are a country that takes war crimes seriously, as we have done in the past with Nazi war criminals - Speech Link
4: Lord Tyrie (Non-affiliated - Life peer) This is Ukraine’s war, not ours, but it is already clear that a minimal war aim of the Ukrainians will - Speech Link
5: Lord Skidelsky (CB - Life peer) This was a horrible war crime, but it does not follow that because a country’s war methods are brutal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 24 May 2022
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Jeffrey M Donaldson (DUP - Lagan Valley) As president of the regimental association of the Ulster Defence Regiment, I speak to many UDR widows - Speech Link
2: Julian Smith (CON - Skipton and Ripon) The widows of RUC members, and other victims, are at the centre of our thoughts as we debate the Bill - Speech Link
3: Stuart Anderson (CON - Wolverhampton South West) I saw streets, not a war zone as I had thought. It looked like a normal area. - Speech Link
4: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) Members calling in this House for war crimes to be identified and for people to be brought to justice - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 17 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Fowler (CB - Life peer) enormous challenge to this country and the world—one that can increase because of new events such as war - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) I will address issues for the workforce in health, including the impact of the war in Ukraine, preparation - Speech Link
3: Baroness Andrews (LAB - Life peer) Some were of course much less predictable: the impact of the war and of the pandemic on living costs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Payments - Mon 28 Mar 2022
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) I beg to move,That this House believes that the current process for claiming War Pensions and Armed - Speech Link
2: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) I speak as someone with a one-third war disability pension. - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) The DWP does not apply a target time for the clearance of war pensions claims. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) of those who served in the Falklands war are traumatised and have PTSD. - Speech Link
5: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) pensions, with war pension wait times missing the Government target since 2011. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
International Women’s Day and Protecting the Equality of Women in the UK and Internationally - Thu 17 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) Sexual abuse, sometimes in the presence of male family members, is used as a weapon of war. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) NGO, HART—the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust—was founded to provide aid and advocacy for victims of war - Speech Link
3: Lord Loomba (CB - Life peer) We will draw on the Loomba Foundation’s extensive experience of the plight of widows, including those - Speech Link
4: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) of being women and widows. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Afghanistan (International Relations and Defence Committee Report) - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) No one has ever won a war against the Russians. We are not going to be starting it. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blackstone (LAB - Life peer) It has endured long periods of war and internal conflict; its Governments have been weak and mired in - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) The Afghanistan of 1961 was an often overlooked but peaceful backwater in the Cold War—the safest place - Speech Link
4: Lord Loomba (CB - Life peer) already had the highest proportion of widows in the world: more than one in five of all marital-age - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) A mother of four told me that“the war planes came at four o’clock. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Greengross (CB - Life peer) There are also estimated to be 1.5 million child widows. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Lost Trawlermen’s Memorial Day - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Gentleman not agree that the widows and the children of these men will be warmed in the knowledge that - Speech Link
2: Karl Turner (LAB - Kingston upon Hull East) At the height of the first world war, fishing trawlers on active service were lost at the rate of one - Speech Link
3: Karl Turner (LAB - Kingston upon Hull East) on the Tower Hill memorial in London, their relative absence from the wider story of this country’s war - Speech Link
4: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) put food on our plates, or of their place in our maritime history, serving our nation in peace and war - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gurkha Pensions - Mon 22 Nov 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) In Kidsgrove, the Royal British Legion has created a beautiful and touching war memorial garden, which - Speech Link
2: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) They were vital in world war one. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) That number comprises 13,289 former service personnel and 7,382 widows. - Speech Link