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Westminster Hall
Financial Risk Checks for Gambling - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (Ind - West Suffolk) Here we come to something of a constitutional point, if I may say so. - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) What is the difference between gambling and going out and spending £150 on a meal, shopping and other - Speech Link
3: Conor McGinn (Ind - St Helens North) On no other legal leisure activity in the UK have the Government set out spending limits in this fashion.Net - Speech Link
4: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Minister set out in closing how people can have confidence that these checks will not intrude into their affairs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds Central) the Government’s commitment to remove the legal duties to have regard to the all-island economy in section - Speech Link
2: Jeffrey M Donaldson (DUP - Lagan Valley) Not only does the Command Paper set out the practical and legal changes that will occur to restore Northern - Speech Link
3: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down) In many respects, the Command Paper has no legal effect, and we are careful not to get too wound up about - Speech Link
4: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) What instructions have been given to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs of - Speech Link
5: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) informed, including on the point about the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) motion on language in politics on International Women’s Day, followed by a general debate on Welsh affairs - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) legal companies over cavity wall insulation? - Speech Link
3: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) which I have talked about many times, has now threatened its former leaders—other parties as well—with legal - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to ask him to update her office. - Speech Link
5: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) I seek your guidance on an issue of substantial constitutional importance. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) As part of the new Windsor Framework constitutional arrangements, a Minister in charge of a Bill must - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) There is a legal loophole, whereby animals could be born and reared in Northern Ireland and exported - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Rural Affairs Committee in 2021? - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) My interests are that I chaired the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in the other place - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) they take no interest in foreign affairs. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) None of them have found a safe and legal route, because none exists. - Speech Link
3: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) However, even if he believes that the constitutional innovation that he has introduced today is a good - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) , I suspect, legal challenge. - Speech Link
2: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) It will create constitutional confusion and conflict.It is ill timed because it is being introduced into - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) As free citizens, we are all entitled to exercise rights relating to foreign affairs, individually and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) This Bill relates to foreign affairs and international relations, which are reserved matters, but I am - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) to uphold the sovereignty of our legal and regulatory frameworks.In addressing clause 1, it is pivotal - Speech Link
2: None I say in passing that the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee strongly advocated - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) formally scrutinise the UK’s accession protocol to the CPTPP through the usual procedure under the Constitutional - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Constitutional Affairs does not. - Speech Link
5: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) It deals in full in its report with the issue of animal welfare and animal health and the sanitary and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) My Lords, we heard this debate opened with great clarity and legal exactitude by my noble and learned - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, this group goes to the heart of domestic, constitutional, rule-of-law concerns about the Bill - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) For those concerned about sovereignty, that seems to be a very odd state of affairs. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Mobarik (Con - Life peer) That is a wholly unsatisfactory state of affairs, and it is not in the best interests of the children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part two - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) some of the more unappetising and less benign regimes and legal procedures to which he refers? - Speech Link
2: Lord Howard of Lympne (Con - Life peer) constitutional government at Oxford, and published by Policy Exchange last year.The noble and learned - Speech Link
3: None As the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, said from the Cross Benches, the constitutional and legal position in - Speech Link
4: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) The idea that it is a permanent state of affairs that can never be looked at again without the consent - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024 - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Caine (Con - Life peer) This reflects the legal guarantees secured in the Windsor Framework and achieves the effect of provisions - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) In another, the legal representative of the PSNI admitted that further resources could be deployed and - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) It is accepted that all of the institutional and constitutional arrangements—an Assembly in Northern - Speech Link
4: None Whatever else they represent, they do not remove, at all, the serious constitutional, democratic and, - Speech Link
5: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) , no doubt, the Irish Government—although the internal affairs of Northern Ireland are not the business - Speech Link