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Lords Chamber
Western Balkans: Dayton Peace Agreement - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) agreement brought peace to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995 through skilful diplomacy, trade-offs, and military - Speech Link
2: Lord Cormack (Con - Life peer) I hope NATO will consider what it can do, because we are defending ourselves in coming to the aid of - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) After Afghanistan and Iraq, the US is largely leaving the problem to the Europeans. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Dundee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In view of these inbuilt restrictions, the Dayton accords would always aid and abet as well, as they - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 21 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harris of Richmond (LDEM - Life peer) Military aid is beginning to slow, and I wonder how we expect Ukraine to win a war against a huge army - Speech Link
2: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) and its allies have involved themselves in a whole series of wars, from Vietnam through Afghanistan, Iraq - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) aid to Ukraine because of the dispute over grain. - Speech Link
4: Lord Skidelsky (CB - Life peer) I was one of a handful of Peers who opposed NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999 and the invasion of Iraq - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) Many religious sites are impossible to access because they are located in Turkish military zones. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We can tie human rights and freedom of religious belief in with aid. - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) the world.We remain concerned that religious and ethnic minority populations continue to decline in Iraq - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Heappey (CON - Wells) deliberately and methodically with dismounted infantry, in a way that those of us who served in Afghanistan or Iraq - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (CON - Wells) The Government will continue to support the military with the medical aid it needs, and to consider what - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) aid to Ukraine and on reinforcing our NATO allies. - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) , taking five vehicles of aid. - Speech Link
5: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) sanctions, through humanitarian and military aid, and in so many other ways.I was very pleased when - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Maggie Throup (CON - Erewash) Last October my constituent, a disabled veteran who served with distinction in Afghanistan and Iraq, - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (CON - Wells) surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, and provided specialist personnel to the NATO mission in Iraq - Speech Link
3: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) Friend agree that it is vital that we back British military manufacturers? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Armed Forces - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) The vast majority of military experts, many of whom are in this House, would agree and consider that - Speech Link
2: Lord Dannatt (CB - Life peer) Eventually this came right, at the height of the two campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, but that was - Speech Link
3: Baroness Helic (CON - Life peer) We have seen it in Iraq, Syria, Myanmar and Ethiopia, recently in Ukraine and now, as I speak, once again - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) But there are always arguments and many other worthy claims—that we have to spend more on overseas aid - Speech Link
5: Lord Mountevans (CB - Excepted Hereditary) We have not said a lot about their contribution to humanitarian aid in times of weather or health emergencies - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Lord Chancellor and Law Officers (Constitution Committee Report) - Thu 20 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Drake (LAB - Life peer) argument in this context is a fig leaf and undermines the trust of the public and particularly the military - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (CON - Life peer) so in passing, the difficulty is illustrated in particular in relation to circumstances such as the Iraq - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) I visited northern Iraq in 2019 and took evidence from the groups I have just described. - Speech Link
2: None published last year, I highlighted the treatment of gay people during the Daesh genocide in Syria and Iraq - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) Four years later, that still has not happened.In 2021, in the months immediately after the military evacuation - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) this scale is through a holistic approach, utilising, where appropriate, developmental, diplomatic, military - Speech Link
5: None There will need to be legal aid lawyers in areas all over the country. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Policy (International Relations and Defence Committee Report) - Fri 30 Jun 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) The Whips will no doubt pray in aid the pressure of government business. - Speech Link
2: Lord Boateng (LAB - Life peer) The Government can use its own assets, such as the diplomatic network, aid spending and the armed forces - Speech Link
3: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) period 2010 to 2015, I recall that in this House we debated five almost simultaneous wars: Afghanistan, Iraq - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) aid and rebuild our stockpiles and munitions.We must maintain this momentum. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) We did so in Iraq, in Kosovo and in the Med with Operation Sea Guardian, and the UK is making a very - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild Ukraine - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (CON - North Thanet) Members to leave in order to attend a meeting with a very senior Ukrainian military officer. - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (CON - Keighley) donor, with this Government having given £2.3 billion in military aid. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Russian state assets to help rebuild critical Ukrainian infrastructure, provide much-needed humanitarian aid - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) are interesting parallels that might be considered with regards to the situation post-war, vis-à-vis Iraq - Speech Link