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Westminster Hall
Israel and Palestine - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) The arms trade is reprehensible. - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Hamas are terrorists backed by Iran, and we all know how they treat women. - Speech Link
3: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) We need to speak more about what we are doing with Iran. - Speech Link
4: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) trade treaty and whether there is a clear risk of UK arms licensed to Israel being used in contravention - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Mon 11 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) It is true that foreign policy is often about trade-offs and finding the least bad solution. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) dying denied access to families et cetera, I assumed that the human rights industry would be up in arms - Speech Link
3: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (XB - Life peer) It may not always be possible to build this into a trade agreement, although we should certainly try - 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) which interestingly includes the right to equal pay for equal work and the right to form or join a trade - Speech Link
2: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) the case for human rights is embedded in everything that our Foreign Office does, including striking trade - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I hope they will be made accountable for their actions.The Baha’is in Iran are the most gentle people - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool, Riverside) law, and will he explain why arms sales to Israel have not yet been suspended? - Speech Link
2: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Behind Hamas, sits Iran; behind Iran, sits Russia; and, increasingly, behind Russia sits China. - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) There are a whole range of measures in place to increase the amount of arms, particularly arms replenishment - Speech Link
4: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) The new way of working was passed through the trade union consultation process, of course, and in terms - Speech Link
5: James Heappey (Con - Wells) Friend hides his light under a bushel, because as a trade envoy in the region he will have had much to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 16 Nov 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) At a time of war in Europe, a horrifying conflict in Israel and Gaza, and threats from China, Iran and - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) If Israel puts down its arms, it ceases to exist. - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) its definition of Islamophobia, which was backed by community groups, academics, political parties, trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) Hannan, was completely correct when he said that we pay too little attention to the strength of our arms - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) Our trade with south-east Asia is bigger than our trade with India or with Japan, and double our trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) We can be sure Iran did. - Speech Link
4: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (XB - Life peer) around the world.This concept of defence includes the arms trade—the manufacture and selling of horrific - Speech Link
5: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) Incidentally, Lavrov then travelled to Iran to hold talks with President Raisi in Tehran, and Iran has - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) bonded with Israel, and that arrangement has born rich fruit.There are reasons to be hopeful even with Iran - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) long-term planning, not being left in the dark over de-linked payments and betrayed on pompous flag-waving trade - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) The debate is about how we get to the end, which is that arms are laid down for a lasting reason and - Speech Link
4: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) She is of course right that all of us want to see a ceasefire and the laying down of arms. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Henig (Lab - Life peer) Given the current tensions on our streets and the persistent warnings of terrorist activity, from Iran - Speech Link
2: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) In 1938, exactly the same thing happened when the Anglo-Irish trade deal was struck. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) Many are having to face traumatic adversity, falling into the arms of criminal gangs and entering the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) trade with the rest of the world has increased by 14%. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con - North East Somerset) That phenomenal success in prosperity comes from free trade. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) The UK arms trade has sold equipment into Israel and I call for that to stop today while working internationally - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) dreadful situation that the women of Afghanistan still face; just a few days ago, a young woman in Iran - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Report stage - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) It is the same with Iran. - Speech Link
2: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) Everyone who cares about issues such as the illegal arms trade, activities of arms manufacturers and - Speech Link