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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 22 Feb 2021
Covid-19: Surplus Vaccine Doses

"My Lords, we welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement at the G7 that we will provide surplus vaccines to other countries. Is the Minister aware that India has already supplied over 10 million vaccines to other countries, including, in the announcement last week, the supply of 200,000 doses to UN peacekeepers …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 01 Feb 2021
The UK’s Relationship with the Pacific Alliance (International Relations Committee Report)

"My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Howell, and the report The UK’s Relationship with the Pacific Alliance. It is so timely—it is serendipity—that it has been announced that we are about to join the CPTPP just when this debate is taking place. I would like …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Jan 2021
Foreign Policy: UK-EU Dialogue

"My Lords, the United Kingdom has one of the finest and largest diplomatic forces in the world, something of which we should be proud. Does the Minister agree that Britain has always been seen as a gateway to the EU and that now is an opportunity, with a new US …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Treaty Scrutiny: Working Practices (EUC Report)

"My Lords, the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, wrote in an excellent article earlier this year in The House:

“The Treaties Sub-Committee will be vital in ensuring trade deals and international agreements are scrutinised”.


He stated clearly that

“the Government will negotiate important trade agreements with major economies around …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 21 May 2019
UK Foreign Policy in a Shifting World Order (International Relations Committee Report)

"My Lords, when I came to this country in the early 1980s as a 19 year-old student from India, Britain was known as the sick man of Europe. It had no respect in the world. A country which had a great empire was going nowhere. In a recent article, James …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jan 2019
Brexit: UK Nationals

"My Lords, is the Minister aware that there are 130,000 students from the European Union in the UK? If we leave the European Union, students from EU countries will be treated like any other foreign students. Does the Minister think that there will still be 130,000 European Union students here …..."
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Written Question
Mohamed Nasheed
Friday 24th July 2015

Asked by: Lord Bilimoria (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to secure the release of Mohammed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives.

Answered by Baroness Anelay of St Johns

The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), regularly raises former President Nasheed’s case, and those of others, with the Maldivian government, as has the Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron). Both individually met Mr Nasheed’s wife and representatives of his legal team on 24 June, after which the Prime Minister called for the release of all political prisoners in the Maldives, including Mr Nasheed. Mr Swire has also discussed these matters with the Commonwealth Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and many other concerned international partners.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 15 Jun 2015
Trade and Investment

"My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Maude, on his excellent maiden speech. It was a very balanced and frank speech and we look forward to much more of the same. I was privileged to interact with him in his role as Paymaster-General when I was a commissioner for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Nov 2014
EU: Free Movement of Labour

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Nov 2014
EU: Free Movement of Labour

"My Lords, everyone would agree that we should clamp down on illegal immigration and those who come to take advantage of this country. However, is the Minister aware of a recent poll ranking the contributions of immigrant communities? One of the countries that came highest for a positive contribution was …..."
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