Found: Representations on behalf of the Secretary of State
Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (CON - Life peer) In 2010, 16,000 pairs of shoes were put on display to mark the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Carlisle (Bishops - Bishops) which is a great expression of the significance of faith in public life.However, the Christian Church - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) My father was a cook in the RAF. He was based in Gütersloh in the summer of 1945. - Speech Link
4: Lord Glasman (LAB - Life peer) this.I spent all of August in Ukraine. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) camp on this day in 1945 by Soviet forces advancing from the east. - Speech Link
2: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) One such day was the warm and sunny 4 August 1944, when the lives of the Frank and Van Pels families - Speech Link
3: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) tower in York in 1190, through the persecution of the Jews of Iberia in the 15th and 16th centuries, - Speech Link
4: Stewart, Kaukab (SNP - Glasgow Kelvin) Jackson Carlaw was quite right to emphasise the personal in commemorating this day, and, on my visit - Speech Link
Jul. 29 2021
Source Page: Called-in decision: Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, London (ref: 3240661 – 29 July 2021)Found: To quote the Co -Cha irs: fiTo establish a new national Memorial at the very heart of Westminster is
Formal Minutes Apr. 01 2021
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Mentions:
1: James Heappey (CON - Wells) We are commemorating a century on from the installation of the Cenotaph, and we are marking 100 years - Speech Link
2: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) is a day when we say thank you to our armed forces for the past and a day, I hope, when all of us will - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (CON - Keighley) helped establish temporary flood barriers.The armed forces community is a crucial part of my constituency - Speech Link
4: Mark Pritchard (CON - The Wrekin) the 15th Royal Logistic Corps and of other operations perhaps not so well known. - Speech Link
5: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) Day and VJ Day that we have seen this year, is a time when people are more aware of the presence of - Speech Link
Thousands of servicemen were held as Far East prisoners of war from 1941-1945, caught up in a conflict that endured long after the celebrations for VE Day. The contribution of those who had the misfortune to be held as pows, many of whom did not survive, deserves to be remembered nationally.
The Government responsed to this petition on 10th July 2019 (View Full Response)Found: Over 50,000 UK servicemen were held as Japanese prisoners of war in South East Asia between 1941-1945
Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishops - Bishops) of the national fabric. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) significance attached to religion by a cross-section of the population. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) We will be commemorating that in a couple of years’ time. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (CON - Life peer) That is of key significance and makes a real difference. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Harris, Alison (None - None) equipment of the day. - Speech Link
2: Stevenson, Stewart (None - None) and so on that relate to the case of the young man who stole a coat from a Leith Walk house in August - Speech Link
3: Adamson, Clare (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Party member of Parliament in 1945. - Speech Link
4: Corry, Maurice (None - None) and historic sites that are of both local and national significance. - Speech Link
5: Macpherson, Ben (SNP - Edinburgh Northern and Leith) significance that are a key part of our shared national heritage.From the fishing communities of Newhaven - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As well as being involved on 4 August, Catholic churches will have held special masses the day before - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LDEM - Life peer) Captain Wyn Griffith of the 15th Royal Welsh Fusiliers described what he saw:“Blue sky above, a band - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (LAB - Life peer) The Minister has rightly drawn attention to the major national programme of events that starts in August—the - Speech Link
4: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) the country by the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916—a beautiful summer’s day, by - Speech Link
5: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the ongoing significance of the First World War in the consciousness of this nation. - Speech Link