Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Treaty Scrutiny: Working Practices (EUC Report)
"I call the next speaker: Baroness Goudie...."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Treaty Scrutiny: Working Practices (EUC Report)
"If we cannot reach the noble Baroness, Lady Goudie, we will go to the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles...."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Treaty Scrutiny: Working Practices (EUC Report)
"Baroness Bowles, I do apologise. Can we can just pause for a moment while we try to reconnect with the previous speaker?..."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Sep 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
"I call the noble Baroness, Lady Hooper. She is not there, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Boateng...."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 29 Jun 2020
China
"My Lords, the time allowed for this Question has now elapsed. That concludes the Hybrid Sitting on Oral Questions...."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jun 2020
Fly-tipping
"My Lords, I am afraid that the time allowed for this Question has now elapsed. We come to the second Oral Question, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Collins of Highbury...."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jun 2020
Rwanda
"My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked and we now come to the third Oral Question, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Balfe...."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 23rd March 2020
Asked by:
Lord Bates (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to implement the provisions of UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/74/16 Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 2019.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
The United Kingdom co-sponsored the General Assembly resolution "Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal", which calls for Member States to observe the Olympic Truce - a cessation of hostilities around the Olympic Games - within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, and to promote peace through sport. As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, the UK already works to uphold the UN Charter and its commitment to the maintenance of international peace and security.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 22 Jul 2019
The Situation in the Gulf
"My Lords, I was initially concerned about the Statement, in particular the contacts made by the Foreign Secretary over the weekend. It mentioned eight countries, with Iran’s Foreign Minister making it nine, but not India. I was significantly more encouraged by my noble friend’s response to the question asked by …..."Lord Bates - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 22nd July 2019
Asked by:
Lord Bates (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the conclusions and recommendations of the report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Situation of human rights in Yemen, including violations and abuses since September 2014, published on 17 August 2018.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
We are deeply concerned by the human rights violations and abuses reported by the UN in August 2018. It is vital that all parties to the conflict make every effort to promote and protect human rights. Yemen remains a human rights priority country for the UK. In the 2018 Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Human Rights and Democracy Report, we highlighted our concerns over women’s rights including girls’ education, the recruitment of child soldiers, arbitrary detention, and attacks on freedom of religion or belief and on freedom of speech and association. We have raised the FCO's report directly with the Human Rights Minister for the Government of Yemen, voicing our concerns. We will continue to work with all parties and international partners, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to find a political solution to the conflict, in order to create the conditions to improve and protect human rights in Yemen.