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Lords Chamber
Procedure and Privileges Committee: Third Report - Tue 19 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Members will have had the opportunity to make a detailed speech when moving the amendment and the House - Speech Link
2: None This freedom will remain, but the proposed guidance provides that Members, if they choose to exercise - Speech Link
3: None amendments, not each individual speech. - Speech Link
4: Lord Grocott (Lab - Life peer) at the moment it tends to fall to some poor Whip occasionally to stand up to call time on someone’s speech - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Extremism Definition and Community Engagement - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None their full rights and opportunities, suppress freedom of expression, incite hatred, weaken social cohesion - Speech Link
2: None Freedom of expression, freedom of religion and belief, the rule of law, democracy and equal rights—these - Speech Link
3: None While the Government in no way intend to restrict freedom of expression, religion or belief, we cannot - Speech Link
4: None That means upholding freedom of expression, religion and belief when it is threatened, facing down harassment - Speech Link
5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Freedom of speech is a fundamental right that we will always protect in this country, but obviously there - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) institutions in Scotland and Wales.Article 4 amends Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Speech Link
2: None Act 1992, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and the Higher - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Refugees - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Member is making an excellent speech outlining the scale of the crisis for Armenians who have left Nagorno-Karabakh - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) for international freedom of religion or belief. - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) All of that is historically incorrect and is hate speech. - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) raised the important issue of freedom of religion, and I entirely - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) The evidence that we heard gave me great cause for concern about the curtailment of freedom of expression - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We can have all the freedom of religious belief in this great United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern - Speech Link
3: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) his speech, but certainly the first half of it. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Tackling Intimidation in Public Life - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) Vigorous and robust debate is at the heart of British democracy and is essential to its health.However - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) My thoughts are with his family and friends.Despite the King’s Speech being only a few months ago, the - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Hamas that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, as Dale Vince has said, or said that - Speech Link
3: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) This week, we mark the start of the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strikes of 1984-85. - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) to be recognised by the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
News Broadcasting: Regulation - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) To err on the side of free speech, Ofcom has left the interpretation to individual broadcasters. - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) is right and proper and must continue because, as Thomas Jefferson said, the price of freedom is eternal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) To reflect on the noble Lord’s speech, the rate of change and the difficulty of regulation highlights - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) freedom of expression and adequate protections for audiences from harmful material. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Extremism Definition and Community Engagement - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) Freedom of expression, freedom of religion and belief, the rule of law, democracy and equal rights—these - Speech Link
2: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) We should always seek to encourage free speech, but he is quite right to draw attention to the freedom-restricting - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) to freedom of expression, religion and belief. - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) of religious assembly, free speech and organisation. - Speech Link
5: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) religious freedom for many years. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Union - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) It seems fitting that his maiden speech will be on this never-ending question of the strength of the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) tangible—not just two world wars and the struggle against communism in the past but the battle for freedom - Speech Link
3: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) noble friend Lord Cameron of Lochiel to the Front Bench for his maiden speech. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) I thank her for that speech; it was wonderful.I will also comment on the speech from the noble Lord, - Speech Link
5: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) a maiden speech we have just witnessed. - Speech Link