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Westminster Hall
Recognition of Western Sahara as Moroccan - Wed 08 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) and the economy, including those that have historically been dominated by males.Finally, I turn to democracy - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) On the return of democracy to Spain in the 1970s, Spain withdrew from Western Sahara. - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) highest standards of democracy and peaceful international relations. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None These provisions commit the United Kingdom to respect, promote and effectively implement the ILO Constitution - Speech Link
2: None The publication of an annual human rights and democracy report has rightly continued under this Government - Speech Link
3: None human rights and democracy concerns. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) For me, that is not democracy; it smacks of totalitarianism. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Security in the Western Balkans - Thu 02 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) by discussing Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, with its multi-ethnic character and constitution, acts - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) character and constitution, is a barometer for the entirety of the western Balkans. - Speech Link
3: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) its constitution and that, regardless of boycott by Srpska Lista, the current mayors are legitimate, - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Madam Deputy Speaker, you, Mr Speaker and I very much believe in the constitution, so we are on the same - Speech Link
5: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) there is cross-party support and concern for maintaining the values of democracy, security and stability - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 02 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) There was only one possible answer it could give in a democracy: to push rates down. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) it, so we must regard this power of direction as a live part of the constitution of the Bank of England - Speech Link
3: Lord Blackwell (Con - Life peer) to ask unelected officials to take responsibility for political judgments, nor right or proper in a democracy - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) there is a lack of democracy across all our structures. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) and detailed way in which they carried out the inquiry and the report on the Bank of England, and for - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pakistan: UK Aid - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) In saying so, we stand with the foundational ideals of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s original constitution and - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Guildford (Bshp - Bishops) minorities under the constitution. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As the ICAI report highlighted“the UK government decided to deprioritise democracy objectives”.I would - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) by both the Information Commissioner and the Constitution Committee, on which I sit.On Monday, the Minister - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) democracy, as I have mentioned, and the problems are increasingly rampant. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Government recognise the threats to democracy that harmful actors pose. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) We would also need to prescribe the constitution for resident management companies—since they are presently - Speech Link
2: None as part of a property-owning democracythe phrase often used by the Government—the move to commonhold - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) least somebody who is rather pleased that democracy has allowed me to move from that particular interest.In - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) He represents one viewpoint and the noble Lords, Lord Thurlow and Lord Sandhurst, and the right reverend - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Scotland and the Scottish people. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Jo Cox Foundation called the abuse of MPs a “threat to democracy”. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that the defending democracy taskforce, headed by the Minister for Security, is looking - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) I am sure the Leader of the House will agree with me and my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader - Speech Link
5: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) They are the nearest thing that we have to a written constitution. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) But reducing South Africa to a wasteland would lead not to a nonracial democracy but to more oppression - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) and the exceptions to it. - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) harm to the environment, including the life and health of plants and animals”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab - Life peer) fundamental change in the constitution. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendmentsLords Handsard - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) Article 28 of the Rwandan constitution recognises the right of refugees to seek asylum in Rwanda.In light - Speech Link
2: None the party to which I belong on the importance of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, both internally - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) just human rights, and not just the rule of law, but democracy itself. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hailsham (Con - Life peer) It does not have a long tradition of democracy. - Speech Link