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Westminster Hall
Indefinite Leave to Remain - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Clapham and Brixton Hill) That equates to 46,000 nursing staff at risk of leaving the UK. - Speech Link
2: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) large Sri Lankan community in my constituency. - Speech Link
3: Sojan Joseph (Lab - Ashford) Many of those who came into the UK uprooted their lives and left their families. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Hall (LAB - Warrington South) from south Asia—members of the Sikh, Muslim and Hindu communities, all of whom came here in good faith - Speech Link
5: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) It cannot be simply a measure of how long someone has been in the UK, but rather of the contribution - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Impact of Conflict on Women and Girls - Thu 09 Jan 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab - Aylesbury) Another example is to facilitate meaningful participation of diverse groups of survivor-led organisations - Speech Link
2: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) that the UK can do.My third point is that it is not just the quantity but the quality of aid. - Speech Link
3: Kirsteen Sullivan (LAB - Bathgate and Linlithgow) to local actors, including women’s rights organisations, yet in 2021, only 0.2% of UK humanitarian funding - Speech Link
4: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) Sri Lankan peacebuilder Dishani Jayaweera. - Speech Link
5: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Chipping Norton, as Foreign Secretary, announced £4.25 million of UK aid to support the work of UNFPA - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Responsibility Bill
2nd reading - Tue 30 Jul 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Bobby Dean (LD - Carshalton and Wallington) I grew up on a council estate as the eldest of three boys. - Speech Link
2: David Burton-Sampson (Lab - Southend West and Leigh) I congratulate Councillor Daniel Cowan, the leader of Southend city council, his council officers and - Speech Link
3: James Asser (Lab - West Ham and Beckton) met.Most recently, to mark the move of City Hall, we honoured Sri Lankan first world war veteran and - Speech Link
4: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) From 2017 until my recent election, I was the leader of Ynys Môn county council. - Speech Link
5: Yuan Yang (Lab - Earley and Woodley) , moving out from central Reading, London, the rest of the UK and, indeed, the rest of the world. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) targeting of civilians by the Sri Lankan military. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Additionally, the UK must consider the position of refugees in Sri Lanka. - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Members will be aware, this House is well acquainted with the issue of Sri Lankan human rights. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Those are key strands of the UK Government’s policy towards Sri Lanka. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lankan Tamils and Human Rights - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) cycle of violence.It is an event that continues to scar Sri Lankan society to this day. - Speech Link
2: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, and arbitrarily accused Tamils of links to terrorist organisations.”That - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) Sri Lankan war criminal. - 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: William Wragg (CON - Hazel Grove) the UK being in breach of our commitments under UN Security Council resolution 2334. - Speech Link
2: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) My own council is one of them. - Speech Link
3: Julie Elliott (LAB - Sunderland Central) , in flagrant defiance of successive UN Security Council resolutions, which the UK helped draft and voted - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) the BDS movement, has on its board organisations including the Council of National and Islamic Forces - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Muslim organisations, Jewish organisations, trade unions, human rights organisations, libertarian organisations - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sri Lanka - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) Most of those deaths were as a result of the Sri Lankan Government forces shelling civilian buildings - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) level of Sri Lankan society. - Speech Link
3: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) In the UK, the Tamil Guardian has had its content taken offline because of complaints from the Sri Lankan - Speech Link
4: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) mismanagement and corruption of the Sri Lankan Government. - Speech Link
5: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon made that point to Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe in July and to Sri Lankan - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sri Lanka - Wed 13 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) to the Sri Lankan people. - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) on the island of Sri Lanka, including the Tamil and Muslim minorities? - Speech Link
3: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) many towns and cities across the UK; I pay tribute to the local Sri Lankan community in Berkshire. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) The human rights abuses of the Sri Lankan police force have been well documented. - Speech Link
5: Sam Tarry (LAB - Ilford South) Will the UK Government make representations to the effect that the new Sri Lankan Government must be - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Report stage - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) more than 200 cases sampled, 96% of parents were Indian or Sri Lankan. - Speech Link
2: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) on the grounds of private life in the UK are that—(a) the applicant has been in the UK with continuous - Speech Link
3: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) the persecution they faced has not lessened because of their means of arriving in the UKof course it - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) The UK is rarely referred to the European Court of Human Rights for any breach of our laws, and we are - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Islamophobia Awareness Month - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) A coalition of more than 450 Muslim organisations has boycotted the Government’s review of Prevent in - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) Has she met the excellent, new and young secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain? - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) The Sri Lankan Muslim Cultural Centre, one of the contenders for best-run mosque in the UK, played a - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) 9% at Christians, while 16% of offences were unknown.Excellent organisations such as the Muslim Council - Speech Link
5: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link
6: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link
7: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link
8: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link