Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Windrush Compensation Scheme data: March 2024Found: Australia Bangladesh Barbados Bulgaria Cameroon Canada Dominica Ethiopia France Germany Ghana Grenada India
Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Gujarat Day and Maharashtra Day, marking the formation of the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra in India - Speech Link
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the delivery of the Future Commando Force.
Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
Commando Forces are deployed globally today, delivering disproportionate impact for a formation of their size, in the High North, Eastern Mediterranean and India-Asia Pacific regions as well as supporting rapid operational feedback and validating lessons from Ukraine.
The Department continually assesses resourcing of all operational capabilities. The Commando Force has delivered significant capability improvements at pace which have already been deployed on operations, with spiral development of key capabilities to retain their operational advantage going forward.
The Commando Force Programme is delivering a transformational change to amphibious operations through two investment increments over the next ten-years that offer political choice at competition, crisis and conflict levels.
Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in India on the treatment of Christian churches and foreign missionaries in India.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK Government is committed to defending Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) for all and promoting tolerance between different religious and non-religious communities, including respect for all places of worship.
India is committed via its constitution to freedom of religion and belief. Where specific issues or concerns arise, we raise these with the Government of India.
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister for South Asia, discussed FoRB with the Government of India, leaders of faith groups and others during his visit to India in May 2023. The British High Commission in New Delhi and our network of Deputy High Commissions across India regularly engage with civil society and religious representatives on these issues.
Apr. 29 2024
Source Page: Joint Statement on the 30th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and DevelopmentFound: Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India
Oral Evidence Apr. 29 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: When we were looking at China and India, it was a different kettle of fish.
Apr. 29 2024
Source Page: APHA hosts celebration of a century’s workFound: They helped set up a reference laboratory in India to build rabies diagnosis capability across the country
Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Treasury Committee (Department: HM Treasury)Found: Third party refinement Countries such as India who have not imposed sanctions on Russia can legally import
Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Treasury Committee (Department: HM Treasury)Found: sanction against Russia), have had the unintended effect of increasing Russia’s trade with China, India
Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Treasury Committee (Department: HM Treasury)Found: OFSI, alongside its other G7 coalition counterparts engage in urgent bilateral discussions with India