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

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) G7 leaders have already agreed that sovereign assets should remain frozen until Russia compensates Ukraine.I - Speech Link
2: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) capability and defence industrial capacity. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Oxford and Asquith (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Ukraine—you see that he has made it very clear that he sees no reason why Ukraine should exist as a separate sovereign - Speech Link
4: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) What systems we invest in is a matter for the capability managers in the Ministry of Defence. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) Friend the Secretary of State for Defence how the west is facing “a pre-war world”. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon Central) the job, leaving the UK with a stunted second-tier industrial base, the only G20 country lacking a sovereign - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We will continue to have significant steelmaking capability in the UK, including producing materials - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The Government maintain that we want to ensure that we keep steelmaking capability in the UK. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nuclear Defence Infrastructure: Parliamentary Scrutiny - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Gentleman and I have different opinions about nuclear capability—I believe that we should have it, and - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) Parliament is sovereign in everything, I guess, apart from the nuclear enterprise.I will, I am afraid - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) He said that Parliament is sovereign everywhere, except in the nuclear deterrent. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) What is the UK’s capability and plan for doing so again now? - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) Had the Ministry made sustained investment in capability, we might not have found ourselves in this situation - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) situation in the Red sea is another flash-point warning that we must invest further in our maritime capability - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) now, because it is impossible to have serious negotiations towards peace unless they are between two sovereign - Speech Link
5: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) also like to add that the Houthis have fired missiles into Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both of which are sovereign - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Protecting Steel in the UK - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) strategy which could have included a plan for the whole steel sector; believes that primary steel is a sovereign - Speech Link
2: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) A strong—or at least “in existence”—steelmaking industry is a core part of our nation’s defence capability - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) capability to make virgin steel. - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) capability to make virgin steel. - Speech Link
5: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) in Port Talbot is going into the defence industry. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defending the UK and Allies - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) As I have said, we are investing in more equipment and capability going into the future. The hon. - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) As we and others take action to degrade and disrupt the capability of those who are malign actors in - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Beyond the money, we do need to build our defence industrial capability. - Speech Link
4: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) agree that the UK should follow Ethiopia’s example and start the process to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign - Speech Link
5: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Parliament is supposed to be sovereign, and we must be able to scrutinise major decisions, such as last - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jeff Smith (Lab - Manchester, Withington) Does the Minister agree with the US Secretary for Defence when he said that“protecting Palestinian civilians - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Of course, the position of the American Defence Secretary is exactly the position of the British Government - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) he reiterated the point that he has made publicly before, which is that Israel has the right to self-defence - Speech Link
4: Theo Clarke (Con - Stafford) Secretary announced the UK-led Ukraine maritime capability coalition to give our allies the power to - Speech Link
5: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) have in relation to the sovereignty of other uninhabited overseas territories, and, indeed the British sovereign - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) unambiguous—where there is a deeming clause—that is the express will of Parliament, that Parliament is sovereign - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) This House and this Parliament are sovereign, but we also have the independence of the courts and the - Speech Link
3: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) This place is sovereign—we derive our sovereignty from the people—but we also have a responsibility to - Speech Link
4: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) What would we have to rely upon in the defence of the balance of this constitution? - Speech Link
5: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) through that.We have a major problem with detention in this country, which includes a lack of detention capability - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Arms Export Licences: Israel - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) I would add, are 6,000 children defence? - Speech Link
2: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) Not only do the Republic of Cyprus Government have a right to know what is happening at a sovereign UK - Speech Link
3: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) In my view, it is vital that we retain and develop a domestic defence capability, a sovereign capability - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) I welcome the official Opposition’s support for that, for our defence contractors and for our defence - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Brendan Clarke-Smith) made a strong defence of Israel’s right to self-defence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We will ensure that our support offer for SMEs will help firms build their capability to import and export - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) see multinational corporations and investment funds of such a size that they have more power than a sovereign - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The Government take our defence export responsibilities extremely seriously and operate some of the most - Speech Link
4: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) Secretary of State to seek specific confirmation of the Government’s position on a virgin steelmaking sovereign - Speech Link