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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Lady’s doorstep has not figured in the busy social media output we see from her. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) the Government Benches know that laws and movements based on hate and division always try to curtail freedom - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Hamas are terrorists, and we should all say so and defend freedom of speech. Will my right hon. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I shall ensure that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has heard what he has said. - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She has just missed the opportunity to raise this issue with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19: Response and Excess Deaths - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Broughton) sending infected people back into care homes—but it did not lock down and it did not restrict people’s freedom - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) There are so many unanswered questions and apparent red flags that it surprises me that the media and - Speech Link
3: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) and so to inform prevention and disease management efforts.”Documents recently disclosed as part of a freedom - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) to do the best, but during the pandemic, when we watched TV footage from around the world, and the media - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None The Freedom of Information Act also includes a power within it to add specific bodies so that it provides - Speech Link
2: None Amendment 11 would instead apply the ban to bodies subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) There are defence training academies and there are organisations that deal with the media in relation - Speech Link
4: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) There are candidates around: one is the Freedom of Information Act. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Michelle Donelan (Con - Chippenham) We as a team are actively participating in that, and we also work with social media companies and our - Speech Link
2: Michelle Donelan (Con - Chippenham) The Government produced world-leading legislation on online safety, which puts the onus on social media - Speech Link
3: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) DSIT is engaging with social media platforms, civil society groups, academia and international partners - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) the people and the courage, but does not currently have the weapons and the air defence to secure her freedom - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) world to step up and match our leadership, because we all want to see a future for Ukraine based on freedom - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I have previously asked the Minister about freedom of religion or belief. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) of media and freedom of speech”.We should be deeply concerned about that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) still Members on the Conservative Benches—as many as 100, if we believe rebel Tory briefings to the media - Speech Link
2: Craig Whittaker (Con - Calder Valley) The poll also revealed that 9% of smokers who buy tobacco through social media or websites advertising - Speech Link
3: Craig Whittaker (Con - Calder Valley) stop smoking, providing access to alternative products to help smoking cessation, and promoting social media - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) most deprived.I welcome the new funding committed to local tobacco control activity and national mass-media - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights: Consular Services - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) The responsibility falls on families to lobby MPs, the media and even the public to raise awareness of - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) There was great joy when the British Government and others were able to gain Nazanin’s freedom and bring - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) high-profile cases—we have heard of some today—of FCDO Ministers receiving criticism from families and the media - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Member for Strangford about freedom of religion or belief. He and my hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Citizens’ Assemblies and Local Democracy - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) European values study and the world values survey have tracked changes in individuals’ perceptions of freedom - Speech Link
2: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) With social media, conspiracy theories, different people with competing views, the rise of populism and - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I am perfectly free to do as I will, but my Whips have told me that that freedom is fettered and I have - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) We are accountable: we are accountable in a society with a free press and media, and we are accountable - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
India: Freedom of Religion or Belief - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Will the Foreign Secretary confirm that we are not offering market access to India for media, data and - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) That is not the British way—insisting that all media have to be domestically owned—although I know that - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) what is happening under the bonnet of social media. - Speech Link
2: None The Bill—the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, referred to this—gives greater freedom to existing commercial - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) It would also exempt them from certain provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. - Speech Link
4: None By 2023, the Government rolled back their ambition and, in their response to a freedom of information - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) The evidence we saw from the freedom of information request is that the scheme the department wanted - Speech Link