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Select Committee
Letter from Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office relating to the UK Integrated Security Fund, 26 February 2024

Correspondence Mar. 19 2024

Committee: National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: Report FY 2022/23 highlighted the Fund's involvement with over 600 women in conflict-prone areas in the Philippines

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Jan. 15 2024

Source Page: Research partnership building to enhance aquaculture systems in South East Asia
Document: Travel grants application form (webpage)

Found: (Please include at least two countries among: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Thailand; and Vietnam

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Jan. 03 2024

Source Page: We call on the Houthis to cease these attacks immediately: UK statement at the UN Security Council
Document: We call on the Houthis to cease these attacks immediately: UK statement at the UN Security Council (webpage)

Found: for the immediate release of the MV Galaxy Leader and its crew – nationals of Bulgaria, Mexico, the Philippines

Lords Chamber
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament: China Report - Mon 23 Oct 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) To reassure him, I say that I have just returned from the Philippines and the Republic of Korea, where - Speech Link

Written Question
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
Friday 1st December 2023

Asked by: Lord Wasserman (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 26 October (HL10597), in how many countries there is a legal requirement to uprate the UK State Pensions paid to those UK pensioners who live there; and which countries they are.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions, without regard to nationality, and the amount is based on an individual’s National Insurance record. UK State Pensions are up-rated overseas only where there is a legal requirement to do so. The Government has no plans to change this policy.

People who live outside the UK will not receive an increase in their State Pension unless they live in:

- an EEA country or Switzerland; or

- a country with which DWP have a reciprocal agreement that allows for it. These countries are:

  • Barbados
  • Bermuda
  • Gibraltar
  • Guernsey
  • The Isle of Man
  • Israel
  • Jamaica
  • Jersey
  • Mauritius
  • the Philippines
  • Turkey
  • The United States of America, and
  • the separate republics of the former Yugoslavia* that are not EU Member States (Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kosovo; Montenegro; North Macedonia; and Serbia).

*Following the break-up of Yugoslavia, the UK agreement with former Yugoslavia now covers Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.

Westminster Hall
Exclusive Economic Zone: Maritime Safety - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) to be the way forward, and those exist, with stuff clearly going on in the South China sea and the Philippines - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Attorney General

Oct. 17 2023

Source Page: Courts increase sentences for child sex offenders
Document: Courts increase sentences for child sex offenders (webpage)

Found: Former radio DJ, Mark Page, was convicted of trying to arrange sexual encounters with children in the Philippines

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Defence

May. 02 2024

Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 29 April 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines

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

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) they continue to deny the genocide that took place in a previous era.On a different continent, in the Philippines - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member for Rochdale referred to the attacks in the Philippines; I asked a business question about an - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) ABColombia, Amnesty International, the Prisoners of Conscience trust, the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
UK Space Agency

Apr. 08 2024

Source Page: UK funding boost for international space projects
Document: UK funding boost for international space projects (webpage)

Found: partners Taiwan Space Agency (Taiwan), National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Philippine Space Agency (Philippines