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Westminster Hall
China - Wed 15 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) Trade dumping is an absolutely critical element of this. - Speech Link
2: Mark Logan (Con - Bolton North East) We do not want to push China into the arms of the axis of authoritarian regimes, as we talked about, - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The UK and Taiwan share a thriving £8 billion trade and investment relationship. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) swift and decisive action, including suspending our extradition treaty indefinitely and extending the arms - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Lady and I could trade statistics, but what I am interested in is opportunities for disabled people and - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We are doing more even on the trade side, where we continue to ensure that we have provisions that advance - Speech Link
3: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) considers to be extremist threats to our society, and in doing so he actively compared North Korea, Iran - Speech Link
4: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Harmful trade deals and Brexit checks are hitting our world-famous Welsh lamb and beef. - Speech Link
5: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) The killing of British aid workers is not enough to move the Prime Minister to end arms sales. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Countering Iran’s Hostile Activities - Wed 08 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) providing it with the wherewithal to buy many of the weapons that it needs.Staggeringly, the total value of trade - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) terror groups—they can move money around the world to where it needs to be—yet those banks continue to trade - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) Ukraine, but that must be accompanied by a serious reconsideration of their own arms sales to Israel - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) I took care of the sanctions regime in the Department for Business and Trade, and I know that we had - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) between China, Russia and other potential aggressors: North Korea, with its nuclear capability, and Iran - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) security context of the time, when Obama was talking about a reset button and we signed a strategic arms - Speech Link
3: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Putin claimed recently that more than 520,000 new jobs have been created in the Russian arms industry - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Although it is important that our aerospace, communications and arms sectors are offered further defence - 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 After the military coup in Myanmar, 16 trade unions were declared illegal and trade union activists have - Speech Link
2: None Baroness, Lady Hale, and Lord Sumption, which claimed that the UK Government have an obligation to cease arms - Speech Link
3: None This is quite common in trade agreements. - Speech Link
4: None Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Democratic Republic of Congo; Egypt; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Haiti; Iran - Speech Link
5: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) grounds but could none the less trade with Saudi Arabia. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) the months, in the British Government’s rhetoric at least, if not in their policy, when it comes to arms - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) zero; Myanmar, zero; Sudan, zero; the Uighurs, zero; North Korea, zero; Congo, zero; Venezuela, zero; Iran - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) agreement, which sets the parameters for UK trade and investment with the State of Israel. - Speech Link
4: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) I also went on a trade trip to China with the vice-chancellors. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
War in Gaza - Tue 07 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) The UK rightly defends Israel from the threat of attack by Iran, but will the British Government also - Speech Link
2: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole) continue to flow to Hamas from Iran and North Korea. - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) The Government must act now by ending arms sales and suspending the trade talks, because if they do not - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) Can he tell the House what advice he has given the Department for Business and Trade, and when, about - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 02 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) at this time.We Liberal Democrats have for many years called for tougher controls on UK exports of arms - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Andrew Stunell that he was the activists’ activist, and I know that he will be greatly missed.On UK arms - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) any decision to suspend existing arms export licences to Israel. - Speech Link
2: Antony Higginbotham (Con - Burnley) Iran continues to operate in violation of the joint comprehensive plan of action. - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) Minister confirm that when she was in Beijing she was able to get the balance right between the legitimate trade - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) However, the Government have taken measures to counter the threat from Iran, including sanctioning the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Spending - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None culminating in Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel 10 days ago conducted in parallel with the proxies Iran - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) global crises, which we see from authoritarian regimes—as His Majesty’s Government have suggested, Iran - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) of 400 protected, armoured and all-terrain vehicles, and nearly 4 million additional rounds of small-arms - Speech Link
4: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) I would like an assurance that there will be negotiations with the trade unions in the implementation - Speech Link