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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Home Office

Jul. 14 2023

Source Page: People smugglers who brought in illegal migrants in car boots jailed
Document: People smugglers who brought in illegal migrants in car boots jailed (webpage)

Found: Two British men were sentenced yesterday (13 July 2023) to over six years in prison for smuggling seven


Parliamentary Research
Treatment of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan - CDP-2024-0061
Mar. 12 2024

Found: Legal restrictions in Pakistan As well as defining major religious groups such as Christians, Hindus, Sikhs


Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) There are potentially hundreds of Hindus, Sikhs and Christians being mistreated in this way, including - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) With rising violence, many Sikhs have fled Pakistan’s north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Friend that I am committed to making FORB an even greater priority in my work over the months ahead.The British - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) The British people think that action is needed, and action is what they are getting. - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Given the reports of British Sikhs facing similar threats, what steps are the Government taking to secure - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Let me be completely clear: if there are any specific threats against any British citizen by any foreign - Speech Link
4: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley Central) police stations have long showed the need for a robust strategy to counter transnational repression on British - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Proposed British Jewish History Month - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Jews with the state of Israel; being a British Jew means being a British citizen. - Speech Link
2: Fabian Hamilton (Lab - Leeds North East) They were proud British Jews. - Speech Link
3: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) what their lives have been like.Were we to be having a debate on the history of Muslims, Hindus or Sikhs - Speech Link
4: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) civil society—the whole of British life. - Speech Link
5: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) We must celebrate the British Jewish community and we must have a British Jewish history month. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I do not want to prolong the debate at this point on Rwanda, but in the opinion of the British Government - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The situations of the Shi’as and Sunnis, the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan and the Muslims in India tell - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) It was the event organised by the all-party parliamentary group on human rights and the British Group - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Britain recently announced an additional £30 million of British aid for vital supplies into Gaza.In Ukraine - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) From Amnesty International to the British Red Cross, from Human Rights Watch to Islamic Relief: thank - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The first is the chair, Carol Ng Man-yee, a British Airways cabin crew worker we worked with in major - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Nigeria; the brutal treatment of Uyghurs and other minority groups in China; violence against Hindus, Sikhs - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Member for Sutton Coldfield, in the main Chamber whether Israel had used British-made weapons for war - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Carey of Clifton (XB - Life peer) We seem to go out of our way to avoid the use of the word Christian and to speak of “British” values, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) not even from the state or Federal Government of Nigeria … I am not aware of any assistance from the British - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) have related to concerns that exist within India and Afghanistan, where concerns about Christians, Sikhs - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief - Tue 19 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) As the Prime Minister absconds from the role of international statesman that British Prime Ministers - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) campaigned for her eventual release, but huge concerns remain.Of course, there is also persecution of Sikhs - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) convening country-focused roundtables on this topic, bringing together academic experts, civil society and British - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Contest: UK Strategy for Countering Terrorism 2023 - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) There is no greater duty for this Government than to keep the British people safe, and I will not rest - Speech Link
2: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) admiration of all the professionals who work day in, day out under pressure for all they do to keep the British - Speech Link
3: Scott Benton (IND - Blackpool South) Does the Home Secretary agree that the British people expect our borders to be robustly enforced, and - Speech Link
4: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) and violent behaviour, it is unacceptable, and we take a robust approach, ultimately, to keeping the British - Speech Link
5: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) added India to that list due to the rise of Hindu nationalist activity specifically targeting Canadian Sikhs - Speech Link