Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (CON - St Ives) Friend raised the armed forces covenant. - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) Apart from the anti-discrimination policies in the armed forces covenant, there are concerns about the - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (CON - South West Wiltshire) Friend’s appreciation of the value of our armed forces covenant. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (CON - Life peer) exemplified by the Armed Forces covenant and the creation of the Office for Veterans’ Affairs, they - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) regard in the Armed Forces Act 2021. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) freedom of belief, of the European convention on human rights, and article 19 of the international covenant - Speech Link
2: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) lead the BDS movement on the BDS national committee sit members of the Council of National and Islamic Forces - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) The council’s general co-ordinator, Mahmoud Nawajaa, has publicly supported the armed wing of Hamas, - Speech Link
4: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) Over 180 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of 2023—about one a day. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Israel Defense Forces says that it is not targeting civilians. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) I pay tribute to the extraordinary courage of the Ukrainian people and their armed forces, who are fighting - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) We are asking ever more of our Armed Forces—perhaps intentionally. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) Forces covenant into law. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) Forces, our Armed Forces, and to them I say: thank you today, thank you tomorrow. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (CON - South West Wiltshire) This has ensured that our armed forces and civil servants deployed on operations continue to be able - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) As we celebrate Armed Forces Week, let us celebrate the skills of our armed forces personnel and their - Speech Link
2: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) forces covenant into law. - Speech Link
3: Johnny Mercer (CON - Plymouth, Moor View) forces covenant into law. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) However, I would like another group in the armed forces community, armed forces families, to have parity - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) The armed forces covenant and veterans annual report states that:“Looking after the health needs of Service - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) forces covenant, which is an informal agreement; We will fully incorporate the covenant in law and fulfil - Speech Link
3: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) fitting that we are having this debate in Armed Forces Week. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) In government, we will fully incorporate the armed forces covenant into law, thereby delivering on the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (CON - Stroud) It is key for all police forces. - Speech Link
2: None My formal title is the director of health and justice, armed forces and sexual assault services commissioning - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) forces, as I am the senior commissioner for armed forces. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) Forces, the Armed Forces Act 2006, for a further period of one year until December 2024. - Speech Link
2: None We have a very small Armed Forces. Are they sufficiently large? - Speech Link
3: None thought to whether they themselves should be subject to the Armed Forces covenant? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) I say to both the noble Baroness and the noble Lord that we provided an update in The Armed Forces Covenant - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) She is right that as Defence Secretary, I—in my 85 days in office—gave all of our armed forces a pay - Speech Link
2: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) forces covenant for such employees, by not clamping down on those shoddy employment practices. - Speech Link