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Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) abuses abroad”.That is what the Bill does. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) nationals—a mother and her two daughters—in April. - Speech Link
3: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) I will be exercising one of my human rights, the freedom of expression and of conscience, by voting consistently - Speech Link
4: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) That is what we are voting on today. - Speech Link
5: Imran Hussain (LAB - Bradford East) by voting for today’s amendment that will reject the Bill. - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Strategy/plan)
Constitution Directorate
External Affairs Directorate

Nov. 17 2023

Source Page: Building a New Scotland: an independent Scotland in the EU
Document: An independent Scotland in the EU - Paper 7 (PDF)

Found: This followed a campaign in which commitments were made by those arguing against independence that voting


Written Question
Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad
Thursday 6th July 2023

Asked by: Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat - Orkney and Shetland)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent progress his Department has made on bringing forward secondary legislation under the Elections Act 2022 to implement his policies on overseas voting.

Answered by Dehenna Davison

The secondary legislation to deliver the overseas electors change is expected to be made and come into force in January 2024.


Written Question
Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad
Thursday 6th July 2023

Asked by: Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat - Orkney and Shetland)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward secondary legislation under the Elections Act 2022 to implement his policies on overseas voting.

Answered by Dehenna Davison

The secondary legislation to deliver the overseas electors change is expected to be made and come into force in January 2024.


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) not as it seemed: the housing estate she was showcasing is largely due to be used to house Rwandan nationals - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) without any electoral endorsement, is precisely the sort of Bill that the House of Lords should be voting - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) This also fits in with the 1989 convention on the rights of the child, which the British Government very - Speech Link
4: None Lady’s analogy of the lover-boy model—a woman trafficked from abroad into the UK to be raped by men for - Speech Link
5: None nationals a year go on holiday. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) Over the first quarter of this year, 22,000 Ukrainians and British nationals from Hong Kong were resettled - Speech Link
2: None Some will even face the threat of death and be pushed to find safe havens abroad. - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) and the European Court of Human Rights. - Speech Link
4: None I will not be voting for it but with the Government. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (CON - Life peer) many times behaved in such a way as to suggest that we do not want to take seriously what they are voting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 05 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) , but also third-country nationals who have transited through an EU member state. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) As far as I understand it, a child adopted by a British family would not automatically have British citizenship - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Therefore, a British official, or any British charity, may seek to accompany an unaccompanied child back - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (CB - Life peer) These are people who win their cases from abroad and then see those judgments implemented in the sense - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) I see no option but to start voting out chunks of it. - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (current conflict, 2022 - present) - CBP-9847
Aug. 22 2023

Found: , 35 abstaining, and five voting against.


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) , like anybody who has ever prosecuted a semi-serious case and done cases where some witnesses were abroad - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) Rwanda is currently the only removal agreement that the UK has in place that includes third country nationals - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) The context is that one is a British citizen and the others are not British citizens, and therefore their - Speech Link
4: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) Although we will not be voting tonight, for reasons explained, I urge the noble and learned Lord and - Speech Link


Select Committee
Sixth Report - Stolen years: combatting state hostage diplomacy

Report Apr. 04 2023

Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: nationals abroad: The Consular Service ”.3 3.