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Lords Chamber
China: Human Rights and Security - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) With China’s militarisation of artificial islands in defiance of the 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) economic moves, given the wide area of influence that China already commands not just in the Indo-Pacific - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) It is stealing islands, building military bases and deploying paramilitary forces to bully its neighbours - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) UK has a vested interest in upholding freedom of navigation; the Royal Navy’s presence in the Indo-Pacific - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [Lords]
3rd reading - Wed 18 Dec 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) In October this year, Samoa hosted the first Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in a Pacific island - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty - Wed 18 Dec 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) security arrangements, including preventing the presence of foreign security forces on the outer islands - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) in total over 99 years, now that we know we will be paying for the privilege of giving away these islands - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Are there safeguards in place to prevent foreign forces or others on the outer islands? - Speech Link
4: Nigel Farage (RUK - Clacton) If we respect the sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, on the basis that it is what the - Speech Link
5: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I hope, too, for a resettlement of the outer islands. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Cohesion and Community during Periods of Change - Fri 06 Dec 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (Non-affiliated - Life peer) against tyrants during her time in the European Parliament and as chair of the Afro-Caribbean and Pacific - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) century faced discrimination and hostility, so this is not a new problem, and nor is it unique to these islands - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Chagos Islands: UK-US Defence Relationship - Thu 05 Dec 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None arrangements, including arrangements preventing the presence of foreign security forces on the outer islands - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) It was before she was appointed as a Minister, but she is now the Minister for Asia and the Pacific, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Self-determination is fundamental when it comes to other overseas territories, most notably the Falkland Islands - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Tue 03 Dec 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Today, the BBC is reporting a Russian submarine sailing between Japanese islands and close to Taiwan. - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) We know that the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific work closely together on all these Navy questions. - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) That is why we have implored others, even as far away as the Indo-Pacific, to assist in this push to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Chagos Islands: UK-US Defence Relationship - Mon 02 Dec 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) asset for the UK in the Indian ocean, and it is critical to our presence and posture in the Indo-Pacific - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) This Government deeply regret how they were treated and removed from the islands originally. - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) That is why the treaty sets out clearly security arrangements for the outer islands that will prevent - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) This deal not only settles some of the outer islands for the Chagossian communities but allows visits - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fishing Industry - Thu 28 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Torcuil Crichton (Lab - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) has a significant impact.That glimmer of hope should not mask something that is a problem for the islands - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) Although there is a tradition in the Faroe Islands of killing pilot whales and dolphins for meat and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Programmes Developments - Mon 25 Nov 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) this country is that next year the “Prince of Wales” will lead a carrier strike group into the Indo-Pacific - Speech Link
2: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) United Kingdom has extensive infrastructure within the contiguous exclusive economic zone around these islands - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
The Ukraine Effect (European Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 21 Nov 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ricketts (XB - Life peer) a large volume of controlled exports” is being exported by“opaque entities in the British Virgin Islands - Speech Link
2: Lord Risby (Con - Life peer) Inevitably, the shape of American defence policy has been pulled towards the western Pacific. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) China and are looking to direct an even greater proportion of their national effort towards the Asia-Pacific - Speech Link