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Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Union - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) nation, and people have the right to use their first language, whichever language that is, or both languages - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) Languages belong to everyone and, as I said earlier, I have taken a long interest in promoting the Gaelic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) In 1588, Queen Elizabeth I, who spoke Welsh, among other languages, and was descended from the Tudors - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) Access to the internet has long been an essential, not a luxury, for people in the modern age, but our - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) linear broadcasting, the Bill ensures that public service content is made available and easy to find on modern - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I do not think that this is the right time to go into that but, certainly in the modern world, as has - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) The point I wish to make is about the absence of clear statutory provision for languages in this Bill - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) The Bill will help to ensure that audiences are able to access content in languages other than English - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Balochistan: Human Rights - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The foundations of the modern Baloch state can be traced back to the 17th century when Mir Ahmed Khan - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) I did not hear that when, for example, the Irish languages Act went through this House. - Speech Link
2: None I was thinking about the architect of our modern United Kingdom, namely Viscount Castlereagh. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education: 11 to 16 Year-olds - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) My Lords, what is not being mentioned is the massive decline in the teaching of foreign languages, at - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) I think it is critical, for the reasons that the right reverend Prelate sets out, that modern languages - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) I should first declare my interests as co-chair of the all-party group on modern languages, and vice-president - Speech Link
2: None We know that the current version is available in 15 other languages, but approximately 300 languages - Speech Link
3: None a code into a range of languages. - Speech Link
4: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) However, if modern technology enables it to be done much less expensively, then so be it. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) I recognise the nature of the problem.The modern versions of AI, or whatever generation of technology - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) and this Bill gives them and the wider broadcasting industry the tools they need to survive in the modern - Speech Link
2: None Committee, and it is important that the regulatory regime recognises the reality of where power lies in modern - Speech Link
3: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) Halls went to live in one of our very small fishing communities to highlight both the historical and modern-day - Speech Link
4: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) discussion to be had about how we can protect the provision of trusted public interest journalism in the modern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) and refugees were created for a very different era before jumbo jets, before the criminal gangs and modern - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) on the Home Secretary to detain and remove them—even those arriving who are known to be victims of modern - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) According to the 2023 Global Slavery Index, prevalence of modern slavery in Rwanda is more than twice - Speech Link
4: Lord Bach (Lab - Life peer) It is the direction given in the Bible—and this is the modern translation—that:“You must not distort - Speech Link
5: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) limited, for merely a few hundred, and these will supposedly be men from diverse countries, backgrounds, languages - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) that most people involved in defence have learnt is the extent to which technology now plays a role in modern - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Jones (Con - Life peer) The second myth is that modern weapons must be withheld from Ukraine for fear of escalation, when this - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) threat to Europe’s security and democracy but risks the potential creation of a new division akin to a modern - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) into school and with additional educational needs, as well as with ESOL—English for speakers of other languages—access - Speech Link
5: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Having been the first to deliver NLAW anti-tank missiles, modern battle tanks and Storm Shadow long-range - Speech Link