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Commons Chamber
Defence Spending - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) This week we have committed an extra £500 million of military aid to Ukraine for this year, bringing - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) aid to Ukraine and the Prime Minister finally making a multi-year commitment to UK military aid beyond - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) its help to Ukraine, in the same way that we did not ask it to strip out its help to Afghanistan or Iraq - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) We have just made our seventh or eighth drop of food aid into Gaza, using the RAF. - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I also thank them for committing an extra £500 million of aid for Ukraine, which is important. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Middle East: Deployment of British Armed Forces - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) possible, Parliament should have the opportunity to debate, in advance, the commitment of UK forces to military - Speech Link
2: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) In recent years British and western forces have been involved in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and none - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, there are some fundamental rights and justifications that we as a responsible military power - Speech Link
4: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) Will the Minister confirm that it was three British-supplied drones that killed three British aid workers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran-Israel Update - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) It launched a barrage of missiles and attack drones over Iraq and Jordan, and towards Israel. - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) The political and military support that we have given is very important. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) More bombs have been dropped there than were dropped in the whole of the Iraq war. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Iran and Israel - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord True (Con - Life peer) It launched a barrage of missiles and attack drones over Iraq and Jordan and towards Israel. - Speech Link
2: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) Can the Minister update the House on the Government’s assessment of the likelihood of resumed military - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) in a near-fatal airstrike by the Israeli military. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) He will recall, I think, the highly contentious position taken at the time of the Iraq war not to publish - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) There was a precedent set—you and I were here, Mr Deputy Speaker—in the debate on the Iraq war, when - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) advice published by the then Labour Government in respect of the Iraq war. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In Iraq, the population of Christians has plummeted from 1.5 million to now just over 100,000.Christianity - Speech Link
2: Lord Carey of Clifton (XB - Life peer) I am patron of Barnabas Aid, which works in many contexts around the world, bringing aid and support - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) for educational resources for the thousands of young people driven from their homes by the current military - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) Stability in the Indo-Pacific has been largely aided by the military base presence on Diego Garcia. - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) The report also found that military families felt unheard, misunderstood and not cared for during the - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) war and all its enablement was not necessary when we were fighting counter-insurgency campaigns in Iraq - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) That is extremely challenging, and has slowed down aid delivery. - Speech Link
5: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) Wars do not follow financial years, so when will the UK move beyond this stop-start military aid and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Our forces’ sheer range of commitments, from global engagements to domestic MACAs—military aid to civil - Speech Link
2: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) They do not trust those people over there not to send them to another Iraq or Afghanistan, and they are - Speech Link
3: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) aid to the civil authorities—requests, as they did throughout the pandemic. - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) I have said umpteen times in the Chamber that my brother served in Iraq and had two terms in Afghanistan - Speech Link
5: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) than £7 billion of military aid to Ukraine within our overall aid package worth almost £12 billion. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) for Aid Impact found that, despite the commitments, the UK has not done this. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) a Londoner for more than 50 years, I have marched many times since, demanding an end to the war in Iraq - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) another, playing a pivotal role in countering Vladimir Putin’s aggression.Three years since the last military - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) This includes Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah, militia groups in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Lab - Life peer) that, after dealing with the nuclear issue, we would move on to tackling the problems that, in Syria, Iraq - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) the evidence and ensure prosecution for the crimes committed by ISIS against Yazidis and others in Iraq - Speech Link
4: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) They cannot return any more than Jews can return to their former homes in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. - Speech Link
5: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) In Iraq, the number of Christians is now 10% of what it was 20 years ago.Christian persecution is now - Speech Link