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Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None support the principles that underpin the CPTPP, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) We are talking about the wide area of influence that China already commands, not just in the Indo-Pacific - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) by Chester Zoo in its letter to Peers, around 90% of the world’s oil palm trees are grown on a few islands - Speech Link
4: None subsection (1)(bb) for “Rome Convention” substitute “Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The small island states of the Pacific are even now seeing their settlements drowned, and I heard yesterday - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) Obviously, the low-lying islands of the Pacific and some in the Caribbean are first in line, but there - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) guarantee to unlock up to $1.8 billion of climate finance, supporting vulnerable people across Asia and the Pacific - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Latin America - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hooper (Con - Life peer) that Bill is taking place even now in the Moses Room—includes Mexico, Peru and Chile, which have been Pacific - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) trade.Chile itself has shown initiative by joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific - Speech Link
3: Lord Brennan (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It is on the Atlantic coast, not the Chinese-facing Pacific. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Two weeks ago, I was in the Falkland Islands. - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) partnerships under the Amazonia Forever initiative and we are keen supporters of the Eastern Tropical Pacific - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) He was one such individual sent—in boyhood really, barely a man—out to the south Pacific, to journey - Speech Link
2: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) That testing took place between 1952 and 1973 in Australia and around the Pacific. - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) He lived in Walthamstow on his return from the Pacific for almost 50 years. - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) This is a cohort whose experiences in the Pacific will last generations to come, if we do not provide - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Area - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
4: Chris Skidmore (Con - Kingswood) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
5: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
6: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
7: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
8: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link
9: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) and the South Sandwich Islands. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con - Life peer) Indeed, I believe, half the world’s middle- class consumers will soon be around the Pacific Rim. - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) Brunei is an important ally and home to the largest UK military presence in the Asia-Pacific. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) China’s strategy and practices towards Africa, Sri Lanka and, more latterly, the Solomon Islands are - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) As William Seward said in 1852—and this is my favourite quote—“the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) uncapped budget, and, after the demise of HS2, is the largest single public procurement project on these islands - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) It is always a joy to visit Strangford—one of the most beautiful places in these islands, if I may say - Speech Link
3: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) What steps his Department is taking to help ensure stability in the Indo-Pacific region. - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) With the challenges in Ukraine, the middle east and the Indo-Pacific, these are more contested times - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As our Prime Minister said recently, Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security are indivisible. - Speech Link
2: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) Much of the defensive construction and militarisation is taking place on islands whose ownership is still - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) In fact, we are the only nation without a Pacific coastline that is a member of the CPTPP. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Dundee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) partnership of joint research into green energy between the Scottish University of the Highlands and Islands - Speech Link
5: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Russia may see ocean access for its ships only in the far north and in the Pacific. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) trade Bill that will confirm our membership of the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific - Speech Link
2: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) any other country in the G7.I welcome the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific - Speech Link
3: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) If we accept it, by that metric, former British Caribbean islands should be at the front of the queue - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) German Government to an American private equity company based in Miami that is registered in the Cayman Islands - Speech Link
2: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) particularly in relation to the BRICS grouping, to which can be added economic regions from the Asia-Pacific - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) The first is the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) leadership on climate change.Turning to the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific - Speech Link