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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Families are an integral part of the armed forces community. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) The armed forces are a huge engine for social mobility. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) LGBT personnel in our armed forces historically, or our ambition to make our armed forces more reflective - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) What steps he is taking to reduce armed forces emissions. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Since 2011, the armed forces covenant and its consequentials have been the absolute lynchpin of public - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None An Afghan air force lieutenant who served alongside British Armed Forces and flew 30 combat missions - Speech Link
2: None There are people who served with our Armed Forces who are now in Edinburgh; I heard from one of them - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) It extends the exemption not just to the Armed Forces but to any agent, ally or employee of the Crown - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) For example, all those who enlist and serve in His Majesty’s Armed Forces are exempt from immigration - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) knives—meted out to babies and mothers and grandmas.These crimes pierced the world’s post-Holocaust covenant - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Despite the dangers they faced, many trade unionists defied the oppressive forces and resisted the erosion - Speech Link
3: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) No country could do nothing.In my view, when Hamas attacked, it knew that it would get an armed response - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) It would not be merely symbolic; it would be about granting the security services and police forces in - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Most importantly, potential violence and armed conflict with other countries may impact the rights of - Speech Link
3: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) In Iraq—including in Kurdistan—and in Syria, Iranian sponsored militants have attacked US forces. - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) of thought, conscience, religion or belief in accordance with its obligation under the international covenant - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Homelessness: Veterans - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the increasing levels of homelessness among former armed - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Forces veterans of 14%, with 2,110 households affected, up from 1,850 the previous year. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) We have the veterans covenant, to say that those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces, and their - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Service Accommodation - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) forces covenant in their areas. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Friend the Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) on Armed Forces Day. - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) The SNP’s core policy is to establish an armed forces representative body. - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) The armed forces covenant sets out that service accommodation should be of“good quality, affordable and - Speech Link


Written Statements
Armed Forces Covenant and Veterans Annual Report 2023 - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) forces covenant and veterans report. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) That includes the European convention on human rights; the refugee convention; the international covenant - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) There are warehouses of boats across Europe that the European police forces are totally failing to go - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) You could not make it up: we have trafficking and torture victims and Afghans who helped our armed forces - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) have heard about how the Afghan relocations and assistance policy is leaving those who served with our armed - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) attacks in northern Kosovo, including the so-called Banjska attack in October this year, were planned by armed - Speech Link
2: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) The international covenant on civil and political rights guarantees the right to life and equality before - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) knows that the violence we are talking about, whether in Darfur or Syria, is markedly different from armed - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) then need to be proactive by using that greater understanding of those driving the violence to press armed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-Rwanda Partnership - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) international law, including the human rights convention; the refugee convention; the 1966 international covenant - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Does the Home Secretary, who was the Foreign Secretary last month, think that our armed forces should - Speech Link