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Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Freedom of navigation underpins not only our security but our prosperity. - Speech Link
2: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) were to move into that area, would they step in to stop them destroying these essential historical and religious - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) Friend’s statement, and I support the necessary actions of self-defence to secure freedom of navigation - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) a period time, that will have a negative impact, which is why it is important to make it clear that freedom - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Financial Risk Checks for Gambling - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) The Conservative party used to believe in individual freedom and individual responsibility, and some - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) It is a human issue; it is not a principle of freedom versus non-freedom. - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) They are not about openness, freedom and choice; they are the last people to be interested in that. - Speech Link
4: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) Like me, they believe in personal responsibility and freedom, and they like a day at the races. - Speech Link
5: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Therefore, religious leaders were outraged and politicians were constantly trying to restrain all the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) All buildings used for religious worship are also eligible for the Home Office’s hate crime protection - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) implementation of much of the groundbreaking Truro review, the UK is now seen as a global leader on religious - Speech Link
3: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) Friend’s International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill had a successful Second Reading in this House - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Inter Faith Network Closure - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) I am proud to represent the constituency in this country with the greatest adherence to religious faith - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) nurturing tolerance, understanding, and the dialogue that is so important between people of different religious - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I declare an interest as chair of the all-party parliamentary group for international freedom of religion - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ministry of Defence: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion - Thu 22 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Hill, which commemorate the tens of thousands of Commonwealth soldiers who gave their lives for our freedom - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This is not about wokefulness but about reflecting the ethnic, religious and cognitive diversity of our - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) Peace requires mutual respect, freedom from persecution and living without fear of destitution. - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) founded in truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity and put into practice in freedomfreedom - Speech Link
3: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) quite simply the only way we can end this violence and start to fight for a future that guarantees freedom - Speech Link
4: Rehman Chishti (Con - Gillingham and Rainham) As the former UK special envoy for international religious freedom, I say that all places of worship - Speech Link
5: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) Thousands of civilian men, women and children are dying in their droves, with refugee camps, religious - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Independent School Fees: VAT - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) school education nevertheless supporting the role of private schools in the UK and the principles of freedom - Speech Link
3: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) debate and make such useful and constructive contributions.The proposed policy fails on the principle of freedom - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hate Crimes - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Chichester (Bshp - Bishops) This comes at a time when we urgently need to promote interfaith dialogue and the expansion of religious - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) We fully support lawful freedom of speech; it generates rigorous debate and is incredibly important to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Anti-Semitism in the UK - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None For example, in the case of public order offences, where there is proof of racial or religious hostility - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The code better protects the right to freedom of expression, while respecting the operational importance - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) anti-Semitism we are seeing today, and much of the reaction to the war in Gaza, is, I am sad to say, around religious - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) She will know that I am not brave enough to restrict her freedom of speech in any way. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) offers ethical and Sharia funds for members who wish their pension funds to reflect their moral and religious - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) Bill, has raised with me a concern which I think has merit: that public funding means that a number of religious - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, this is a flawed Bill that is widely opposed, including by a coalition of 70 religious, political - Speech Link
4: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) The religious hostility to Israel goes back long before the current hostilities in the Middle East. - Speech Link