Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2018
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
"Is not the key point that Pakistan uses the state, the constitution and the law to persecute the Ahmadis, which is unique? Of all the horrors we know in Pakistan, the Ahmadi Muslims are singled out by the state and the constitution, which is why we should speak out loudly …..."Ed Davey - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2018
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
"It is a huge pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening). I apologise for not always notifying her when I go to the mosque in Southfields to meet his Holiness the spiritual leader of the Ahmadi Muslim community and others to talk to them about their …..."Ed Davey - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2018
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
"The hon. Gentleman is right. This debate is not an attack on the Minister, who has done a good job. The right hon. Member for Putney mentioned Lord Ahmad. As an Ahmadi Muslim, he is able to speak with authority and credibility, and I pay tribute to him...."Ed Davey - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2018
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
"Does the Minister wish to intervene?..."Ed Davey - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2018
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
"That was a very helpful intervention, because the Minister brings the real issue to bear: our questions on what the Government might do. I understand that such issues need to be dealt with in private, and I am sure that we can take his reassurance that that is happening. I …..."Ed Davey - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2018
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
"I absolutely agree, which is why I want to push the Minister a little further. Although I accept that sometimes we have to tread quietly on such issues, I am alarmed that the persecution of the Ahmadis is accelerating. Given the murders, the assaults and, as we saw last night, …..."Ed Davey - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 28th March 2018
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many meetings (a) he, (b) Ministers of his Department and (c) officials in his Department have held with representatives of (a) Cambridge Analytica, (b) SCL Group, (c) Global Science Research and (d) Alexander Nix.
Answered by Alan Duncan
I, the Foreign Secretary, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials in London, Washington and New York met representatives, including Alexander Nix, from Cambridge Analytica, in 2016-17. This was part of the government’s work to better understand the 2016 US presidential election, the political environment that followed and to build relationships with the Trump Presidential campaign and transition team. This outreach was part of normal diplomatic business.
In addition the FCO has identified: one former project from 2008-2009 with Strategic Communications Laboratories Group Limited (SCL) involvement; that SCL attended a conference organised by the FCO at Wilton Park on ‘Diplomacy in the Information Age’ in February 2017; and an official dialled into a general briefing of the outcome of a SCL research study on counter extremism campaigns in March 2018. The FCO is not planning any further contact with that organisation or those linked to it.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Dec 2017
Oman, UAE and Iran
"The Foreign Secretary is right to say how shocking the war in Yemen is: the humanitarian catastrophe there is on a biblical scale. Will he tell the House what discussions he had with Sultan Qaboos bin Said about how to end the conflict in Yemen? What role does he see …..."Ed Davey - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 16th November 2017
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what travel and health advice his Department is providing to British citizens visiting Madagascar since the outbreak of plague on that island.
Answered by Rory Stewart
FCO travel advice was updated on 4 October to reflect the recent outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague in Madagascar. We continue to monitor the situation closely.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Sep 2017
Korean Peninsula
"I have been talking to my many Korean constituents. May I tell the Foreign Secretary how alarmed they are and how worried they are for their families back in Korea and for their country? In rightly emphasising the case for a diplomatic solution, does he feel that the actions of …..."Ed Davey - View Speech
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