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Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kate Osborne (LAB - Jarrow) public services.The Bill is part of the Government’s plan to restrict all our rights and to demonise - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) Lutonians have written to me concerned about the plans to restrict their right to strike not just for - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) First there was our democratic right to protest, now our democratic right to strike, and next a bonfire - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Commercial Breeding for Laboratories - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) Members will want to reference, of the ongoing peaceful protest organised by Camp Beagle of a laboratory - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) If we do not adapt and change immediately, we will fall behind our international allies; we already are - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) When our kids are sick, we do not take them to the vet, do we? - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dines (CON - Derbyshire Dales) However, I must be very clear that while we fully uphold people’s right to peaceful protest within the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Commonwealth: Zimbabwe - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) We understand that the UK Government are not minded to oppose readmission, because they do not want to - Speech Link
2: Lord Loomba (CB - Life peer) For all the questions that hang over Zimbabwe’s current record, I do not believe that to be the case - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) restrict the freedom of civil society to operate. - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) peaceful campaigning. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
Committee stage - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) It is important that we do not hinder our ability to prosecute in these cases.We consider that knowledge - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LDEM - Life peer) All of our amendments in this group are designed to restrict the interests to be protected by the Bill - Speech Link
3: None and freedoms, even without getting into people who want to protest or do some other lawful activity—other - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Unless we are clear, that raises the considerable concern that they can be used to prevent peaceful protest - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Committee stage - Tue 13 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Deben (CON - Life peer) For the Government to say that it is not necessary to do this does not mean that they need not to do - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) we pass diminishes our rights, little by little. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) outcomes which support the exercise by peaceful protestors of their rights under Articles 8, 9, 10 and - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (CB - Life peer) The right to peaceful protest is not even referred to in the Bill as a consideration to which those imposing - Speech Link
5: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) They are likely to result in interference with legitimate peaceful exercise of Article 10 and 11 rights - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Day - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Human rights have to be universal. They do not mean going to war with somebody. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I would not give it aid, and I encourage our Government not to do so. - Speech Link
3: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) Her peaceful protest resulted in her arrest and charges of insurrection, assembly, meetings and public - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) The Government have repeatedly condemned the Taliban’s decision to restrict the rights of women and girls - Speech Link
5: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) Gentleman knows, we do not discuss sanctions policy because it would risk reducing our ability to bring - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Report stage - Wed 07 Dec 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Hope of Craighead (CB - Life peer) the rights of others and not to do or say anything that is prohibited by any enactment or rule of law - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) It might be helpful to note that we do not understand there to be a legal duty“to respect the rights - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) trans identity rights, and so on—if you do not agree, you are open to being accused of bigotry and sent - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) to engage in peaceful protest against such speech, as the noble Lord clearly stated. - Speech Link
5: None would not work if noble Lords supported our amendment and which I ask the House to do. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gulf States: Human Rights Abuses - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) We are not, and we do not. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hayward (CON - Life peer) He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Londesborough (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Thanks largely to their huge energy reserves, they do not need our financial assistance. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) We should not restrict this to the Gulf, because such views are commonplace.I have a significant concern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Committee stage - Tue 22 Nov 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) discussion about how other elements of the Bill are aiming to restrict protest and this is seen to be - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) search does not hold water in relation to peaceful protest. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bishops - Bishops) Those rights and freedoms include the right to peaceful protest. - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) for prohibited items without suspicion, looking for articles with respect to peaceful protest, is not - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 16 Nov 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) sure that we do not bring our statute book into disrepute. - Speech Link
2: Lord Skidelsky (CB - Life peer) err on the side of free speech and peaceful protest. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) takes the state’s power to restrict the right to protest to unprecedented levels. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hope of Craighead (CB - Life peer) a protest that is violent, not peaceful. - Speech Link
5: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) that particular regard must be had to the right to peaceful protest under Articles 10 and 11 of the - Speech Link