Democracy and the Constitution

Parliamentary Research
The Horn of Africa and the Red Sea - CBP-10000
Apr. 18 2024

Found: The Horn of Africa and the Red Sea

Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Scotland and the Scottish people. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Jo Cox Foundation called the abuse of MPs a “threat to democracy”. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that the defending democracy taskforce, headed by the Minister for Security, is looking - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) I am sure the Leader of the House will agree with me and my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader - Speech Link
5: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) They are the nearest thing that we have to a written constitution. - Speech Link

Select Committee

Correspondence Apr. 17 2024

Committee: International Agreements Committee

Found: Letter to the Chair from Delyth Jewell MS, Chair, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and

Select Committee

Scrutiny evidence Apr. 17 2024

Committee: Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] Committee

Found: The Hall and its Constitution

Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) But reducing South Africa to a wasteland would lead not to a nonracial democracy but to more oppression - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) and the exceptions to it. - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) harm to the environment, including the life and health of plants and animals”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab - Life peer) fundamental change in the constitution. - Speech Link

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: Joshua Rozenberg KC (Hon), King's College London, University of Bristol, and University of Glasgow Oral

Select Committee

MUL0014 - International relations within the multilateral system

Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Inquiry: International relations within the multilateral system
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: MUL0014 - International relations within the multilateral system Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office

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

Apr. 16 2024

Found: , and the like.

Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendmentsLords Handsard - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) Article 28 of the Rwandan constitution recognises the right of refugees to seek asylum in Rwanda.In light - Speech Link
2: None the party to which I belong on the importance of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, both internally - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) just human rights, and not just the rule of law, but democracy itself. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hailsham (Con - Life peer) It does not have a long tradition of democracy. - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
Citizens’ Assemblies and Local Democracy - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) When politicians do not have their interests at heart, not only do they lose faith in democracy and seek - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) some countries’ constitutions—for example, Ireland has that important role as part of its constitution - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Rather, general and other elections must be part of a process of deliberative democracy that engages - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) We talk about the word “democracy”, but let us remind ourselves of the history of that word. - Speech Link