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Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) We have imposed sanctions on Russia and China to address their abuses of human rights, and our Government - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) concerns about its treatment of Tibet, its persecution of Buddhists, the interference with the leadership - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) They have given themselves powers to impose Magnitsky sanctions on individuals who commit gross human - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) We raise the reputational and diplomatic cost to China of its human rights violations regularly on the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) Its level of aspiration is extraordinary: prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, colour, - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) as the US and the EU.When dealing with states such as China and Russia, sanctions can have a significant - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) world falls short of its bold ambitions, as we have seen over these 75 years. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) are dependent on labour and produce from China. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief - Tue 19 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) inspiration from how China oppresses its citizens. - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) to severe repercussions, including the appalling treatment of the Uyghur Muslims that many argue is - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) She was right to highlight not only the situation of the Uyghur Muslims in China, which we often hear - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and of the Rohingya in Myanmar are high-profile cases, but we have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) the basis of the treatment of Uyghur Muslims. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) and that the same level of attack is not meted out to Myanmar, for example, or to China for its treatment - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) Whether we are talking about the Uyghur Muslims in China, the fate of Hong Kong Chinese or, indeed, those - Speech Link
4: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) its war crimes in Yemen, boycotts in Colombia over its past treatment of trade unionists, and commercial - Speech Link
5: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) of Uyghur Muslims, the law will be on its side. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Procurement Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 13 Jun 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) , for example with the Uyghur Muslims? - Speech Link
2: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) We would have to put on the mother of all sanctions. - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) by those of us who have continued grave concerns about the influence of China and its insidious involvement - Speech Link
4: Nigel Mills (CON - Amber Valley) Lords, the Government’s response was that it would impose an unreasonable burden on contracting authorities - Speech Link
5: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) The tribunals heard reliable evidence of Uyghur Muslims being subjected to comprehensive blood testing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh - Tue 02 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) In a number of countries—China in relation to the Uyghur Muslim population, for example—ethnic cleansing - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) is doing in other countries and not just among the Uyghur Muslims. - Speech Link
3: Paul Bristow (CON - Peterborough) Muslims on its border, and of course that is what the Bangladesh Government have done, but that area - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) This resolution was the first of its kind in over 74 years. - Speech Link
5: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We do not ever discuss in anticipation where we might impose sanctions, as that might reduce their effectiveness - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) Myanmar, the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, Christians in Nigeria and Hazaras in Afghanistan.In the case - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) Is that just because we have decided that if a Government are an ally, we will not impose any sanctions - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) I do not disagree.In China, there are continuing reports of human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Persecution of Christians - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) treatment of religious minorities during covid-19 would have abated by now, but, disappointingly, that - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) of many religious minorities—not least the Uyghur Muslims—face persecution on a daily basis, but I want - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) China in recent days. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) a number of their citizens based on their faith—also tend to impose and sanction other breaches of human - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Procurement Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 24 Oct 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) opinion over a tax treatment. - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) Given the Government’s current policy of imposing sanctions to ensure its foreign policy goals in relation - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) These cameras are used to impose the surveillance state on the Uighur Muslims referred to by the noble - Speech Link
4: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) That can impose all kinds of difficulties, especially on SMEs. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) New subsections (3A) to (3F) impose restrictions on the use of such conditions to those which apply to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Human Rights Abuses and Corruption: UK Sanctions - Thu 21 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) Arabia continues to violate its citizens’ human rights as part of its regime, and no further sanctions - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) The treatment of those with British national overseas status as China tightens its grip on the region - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) As China commits these crimes, it also seeks to profit from the detention of the Uyghur Muslims, and - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Government and the Opposition on, for example, the implementation of sanctions on Russia since its illegal - Speech Link