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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) who play at Mary Ann Meadows in my constituency, have had to cancel almost 70% of their grass pitch games - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Government on the prospect of Glasgow stepping in to host the 2026 Commonwealth - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) This country is proud to have hosted the Commonwealth games twice in the past decade, most recently in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Statements by his now deputy—the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Since the Foreign Secretary was appointed, we have had eight Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) I have contacted the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office numerous times, as well as writing - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He has won £10 billion of investment from central Government, has secured and delivered the 2022 Commonwealth - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Major Sporting Events (Income Tax Exemption) (2024 UEFA Champions League Final) Regulations 2024 - Tue 16 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) including the UEFA men’s and women’s Euro football championships in 2021 and 2022, the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) However, the Commonwealth Games are facing a crisis at the moment of countries being unwilling to host - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I hope that this Government will be supportive of the Commonwealth Games. - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) We could say we were shadow-boxing; I realise that he is not from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nicola Richards (Con - West Bromwich East) Last week I raised concerns with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that women did not - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) And if they cannot bring themselves to stop the endless games and gimmicks, and stop putting themselves - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Mr Speaker, I know that you will be celebrating Commonwealth day on Monday with the raising of the Commonwealth - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Friend for that question and his commitment to the Commonwealth. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Commonwealth is important for all of us. - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) place a G-to-G agreement with Peru for the UK to be the delivery partner for the 2019 Pan American games - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Old Windsor (XB - Life peer) My Lords, next Monday, we mark Commonwealth Day, and we look ahead to the biennial Commonwealth Heads - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is interesting that seven of the 12 members of this partnership, following our accession, are Commonwealth - Speech Link
2: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) To its south lies Iran, always keen to play geopolitical games. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) , half a century and two generations after the new Commonwealth countries had become independent. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) has included a Commonwealth chapter, allowed by the WTO, to pursue and promote intra-Commonwealth trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I will ensure that he gets an update on that issue from the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link
2: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Yet here we are in the House of Commons with Members of Parliament playing time-wasting games and abandoning - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Some of the antics, games and name-calling we have seen today in this Chamber paint this Chamber in an - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) Is it really that much more important to us than the countries of the Commonwealth? - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) This is not in accordance with the repeated statements from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development - Speech Link
3: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) Some of my first memories of sport as a child are watching with interest the Moscow Olympic Games. - Speech Link