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Commons Chamber
Overseas Territories - Thu 11 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) that today’s JMC is a particular success.British overseas territories span Europe, the Caribbean, the Pacific - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) It offers sanctuary to a plethora of wildlife from the south Atlantic to the Indian and Pacific oceans - Speech Link
3: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) of the other overseas territories that are ignored in the future.We are re-entering the Indian and Pacific - Speech Link
4: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) British overseas territories, from the Antarctic, to Europe, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Foreign Policy - Wed 03 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) My Lords, the people of these islands have made an extraordinary contribution to the world, much of which - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) It confidently claimed that the UK could tilt to the Indo-Pacific. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) security, something people overlook, as they seek to entice numerous new member states—the smaller islands - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) This capability will help uphold the conditions for a secure and stable Indo-Pacific. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 02 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) What recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Mauritius on the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands - Speech Link
2: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) When will the Chagossians—the indigenous people of these islands—finally get their say? - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) that he will welcome and endorse the international legal decision on the determination of where the islands - Speech Link
4: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) Friend agree that the military importance of Diego Garcia means that the islands should remain under - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) I delivered a major speech on how the UK will engage with China, and I visited our Pacific partners and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK’s Exit from the European Union - Mon 24 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) partnership—sometimes referred to under the acronym CPTPP or otherwise known as the Pacific rim trade - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) All in all, in terms of trading, the Pacific rim trade deal, along with the already-signed agreements - Speech Link
3: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) who were most affected by leaving the EU in the way that we did were EU nationals resident in these islands - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Landmine Awareness - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) Let us look at the Falkland Islands. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , where the Battle for the Pacific took place, has only just cleared all its mines, 80 years later. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) in the Pacific ocean— 40 and 80 years—we know the job in Ukraine will be difficult. - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) expecting to learn something today about my actual brief as the Minister with responsibility for the Pacific—about - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Trade and Geopolitics - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Darren Jones (LAB - Bristol North West) recent announcement has been the UK’s entry to the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (LAB - Bristol North West) there to be taken; that the British people have within them the drive, energy and potential; that our islands - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) This issue tilts to the Indo-Pacific region, both through the trade arrangements and the infrastructure - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) A key plank of our policy is to strengthen Britain’s trade ties with markets across the Indo-Pacific - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) We have seen that in the past in the Channel Islands—we very much hope that things are much better there - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) I have received instructions, not recently but in the past, from states within the Channel Islands and - Speech Link
3: None The British Virgin Islands also passed primary legislation to enable the framework for regulations to - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) here as their offshore financial centre, they’ll go to somewhere dodgier and smaller, perhaps in the Pacific - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
CPTPP: Conclusion of Negotiations - Wed 19 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None on the progress of negotiations for us to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific - Speech Link
2: None The CPTPP will act as a gateway to the Indo-Pacific, one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing regions - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) Accession also forms part of the Government’s Indo-Pacific tilt set out in the integrated review. - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change in Developing Countries - Thu 30 Mar 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) 3,000 people—and they need help from us.My third case history is Samoa, right in the middle of the Pacific - Speech Link
2: Lord Brennan (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, remarked, we have lands in the Commonwealth, and islands, but - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 23 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) We are currently negotiating accession to the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) A Canadian company sponsored by several Pacific island states is poised to begin deep-sea mining at the - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Minister engage with the trade unions to discuss the work of protecting post office services across these islands - Speech Link