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

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) development and foreign policy highlighted the need for the UK to play an active role in ensuring that open societies - Speech Link
2: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) Again, therefore, we must ensure that we have the necessary resilience within our societies to withstand - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warsi (CON - Life peer) Hindutva, however, diminishes plural secular societies, is a political violent ideology from the late - Speech Link
4: Earl of Dundee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) 1949, the Council of Europe has demonstrated much expertise in this context, successfully promoting civic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Fairness at Work and Power in Communities - Thu 12 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) It is our main civic place, and it is something of great passion. - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) We should strengthen the credit union movement and support our building societies in providing affordable - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 12 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) It was already changed, first because the Civic Forum that was part of it was allowed to lapse. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bryan of Partick (LAB - Life peer) should be done jointly with the devolved Administrations and, of course, consulting much more widely in civic - Speech Link
3: Lord Stephen (LDEM - Life peer) Never believe that somehow the 2014 independence referendum was some sort of outpouring of civic good - Speech Link
4: Lord Parekh (LAB - Life peer) Even the Prime Minister said that Britain is“one of the most imbalanced societies and lop-sided economies - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 11 May 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Guildford (Bishops - Bishops) Indeed, research has demonstrated time and again that the least happy societies are not always the poorest - Speech Link
2: Baroness Valentine (CB - Life peer) participates and plays to its own strengths.I have been involved in encouraging businesses to tackle civic - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Zimbabwe: Elections - Tue 26 Apr 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) At the G7 in 2021, they also committed to address“the closure of civic space”and“to work collectively - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Wed 23 Mar 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) Runciman argued that“if societies want to be truly democratic, they need to overcome their engrained - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) That was a central theme of our cross-party review on citizenship for civic engagement. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) That was in 1970.On civic education, in many of my contributions, I have mentioned the noble Lord, Lord - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) We want people to properly engage in civic society. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None Mrs Thatcher, set up the Westminster Foundation for Democracy as a vehicle to help the newly emerging civic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 2 - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) There are many societies and countries where the guarantors of human rights are not Parliaments and parliamentarians - Speech Link
2: None The noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, in the Select Committee report on civic engagement, stressed the importance - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barker (LDEM - Life peer) Committee chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, which considered citizenship and civic - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Great British Railways Headquarters: Carnforth Bid - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: David Morris (CON - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Council, which is assisting with information, Carnforth & District chamber of trade, Lancaster Civic - Speech Link
2: David Morris (CON - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Rail user groups and societies, of which there are many in Carnforth, promote battery electric locomotives - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
2nd reading - Wed 23 Feb 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) Rather than saying it is too confusing, why do the Government not improve civic and political education - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) possible all the freedoms and personal liberties and comforts that we take for granted in modern liberal societies - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) How do we raise awareness and engagement in our civic society? - Speech Link