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Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None That in itself is a quirk of history. - Speech Link
2: None history that show economic and social evolution. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mendoza (CON - Life peer) history of our country? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) I ask your Lordships’ House to think very carefully about the word “tidy” because heritage and history - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nuclear Test Veterans - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) We also introduced the £250,000 oral history project to help tell their life stories and a £200,000 community - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (LAB - Life peer) What test data exists for the veterans and in what format and how many does it cover? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) I thank my noble friend for that history, of which I was not aware. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) participation in the nuclear weapons tests would be held in individual military records in the government archives - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush Generation: 75th Anniversary - Fri 07 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) We have, over the past few days and weeks, been marking a supremely special moment in our history. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) Notwithstanding complex colonial history and a mixed welcome, they came as some of the most loyal and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) The National Archives holds copies of the passenger lists of many ships that brought Caribbean people - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Aviation Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) It is complex, expensive and time consuming, and the delays are putting our manufacturers and aviation - Speech Link
2: None is a long history of regulation, which is quasi-voluntary, in the sense that it is organised by the - Speech Link
3: None Regrettably, the EM’s numbering issue was introduced during the final formatting checks by the National Archives—TNA - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
Report stage - Mon 26 Jun 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Whitelaw that a custody order was appropriate; his personal consideration was just not recorded in the archives - Speech Link
2: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) to rewrite history to pervert the truth and the facts of what happened. - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (CB - Life peer) Ireland there would be suspicions and assumptions that such a history would not be free from bias. - Speech Link
4: None It deals with ABCD and it even proposes an official history of the Troubles of Northern Ireland”. - Speech Link
5: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (LAB - Life peer) About 10 months in, I was chairing strand 1 of the talks and I had had enough of history by then. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
Report stage - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) I am very grateful to the noble Lord and noble Baroness for their support and kind words, and I hope - Speech Link
2: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) I well remember the history of why we are in this position in the first place: after the Stormont House - Speech Link
3: None Rewriting history is about the complexity of the Troubles being distorted into a single concern with - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) This view is supported by the Commission for Victims and Survivors, Amnesty and the CAJ, and latterly - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) some new information has come to light after inspection of, for example, new files in the National Archives - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Global Military Operations - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) the price of oil and gas and food. - Speech Link
2: Bernard Jenkin (CON - Harwich and North Essex) Archives at Kew, concerning the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram disaster during the Falklands war. - Speech Link
3: Richard Drax (CON - South Dorset) is to their great credit, but greater mass is needed for the reasons I have stated.Looking back in history - Speech Link
4: Richard Drax (CON - South Dorset) As history again shows, on many occasions when a war breaks out, it comes from nowhere and many countries - Speech Link
5: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) Down the course of history, Russia invades its neighbours over and over again. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 12 Jun 2023
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (CON - Mid Dorset and North Poole) We are fully taking back control of our laws, and we are ending the supremacy and special status afforded - Speech Link
2: William Cash (CON - Stone) the opportunity to diverge and create economic growth and competitiveness. - Speech Link
3: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) think history will vindicate us on that view.Mr Deputy Speaker, we regret the Bill. - Speech Link
4: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) We need to make sure that it is populated, that the National Archives is very much part of it, that we - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukrainian Holodomor - Thu 25 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) While the archives have since been opened and the truth is now easier to access, Putin’s regime has continued - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Let us not shrink from our responsibility to history and humanity. The time for recognition is now. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) This debate has brought home the fact that today’s illegal and unconscionable war comes after a history - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) darkest chapters in Ukraine’s history. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Wed 24 May 2023
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Friend agree that the Minister may do well to read his constitutional history before he dismisses it - Speech Link
2: William Cash (CON - Stone) I have written to other Ministers as well, and explained to them that there are archives in Kew that - Speech Link