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Commons Chamber
G7 and NATO Summits - Wed 16 Jun 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) With coronavirus, none of us are safe until everyone is safe. - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Prime Minister give a simple commitment to the principle that no one can claim to have defeated the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) refugee camp in northern Iraq—all part of a sustained military action from the Turkish state against the Kurds - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 19 May 2021
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Udny-Lister (CON - Life peer) We could not foresee then the coronavirus pandemic and what became perhaps the greatest international - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) The Turks launched an attack on the Kurds, and there was no reaction. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warsi (CON - Life peer) We know that mid-pandemic, Gaza’s only coronavirus testing lab was damaged by Israeli army bombing. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) children, and the other was Dr Ayman Abu al-Ouf, the Shifa Hospital’s head of internal medicine and coronavirus - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Better Jobs and a Fair Deal at Work - Wed 12 May 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Kyle (LAB - Hove) was so much worse than in all the countries he has mentioned and at the bottom of the G7 during the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) Coronavirus has shone a spotlight on what matters to all of us—our families and friends, our communities - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) I want to express my solidarity with the people of Gaza, as well as with the Kurds in Turkey, where a - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Duncan Baker (CON - North Norfolk) New variants of coronavirus are emerging, from South Africa to Brazil. - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) A stalled budget deal between Irbil and Baghdad is bleeding the Kurds dry, and public servants were not - Speech Link
3: Adam Holloway (CON - Gravesham) If not, what assistance are we providing to the Kurds to secure them, and indeed the other prisoners, - Speech Link

Select Committee
Mason Bell (Member of the Fabian Society), Mahdi Murtaza (Third-year student, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex), Bill Puddicombe (Executive Director, Sussex Beacon), Jacqueline Rana (artist/practitioner and interim Trustee, Bristol Estate Leaseholders and Tenants Association), and Rohaan Saleem (Nuclear Engineer in the civil and defence industry)
 Mason Bell, Mahdi Murtaza, Bill Puddicombe, Jacqueline Rana, and Rohaan Saleem

Oral Evidence Nov. 05 2020

Inquiry: The Government’s Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: of time when Government have a lot of power ŠI am thinking particularl y about dealing with the coronavirus

Commons Chamber
Counter-Daesh Update - Wed 22 Jul 2020
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) destroy the brutal Daesh caliphate, but Daesh is now regrouping in territories disputed between the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) It is incredibly important that we work with the Kurds and the Iraqis to ensure that, where there are - Speech Link
3: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) not forget in this House the evil nature of the Assad regime, which rules Syria, where some of the Kurds - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) Of course, any rebuilding effort now faces the double whammy of the coronavirus pandemic, which the Disasters - Speech Link
5: Eleanor Laing (CON - Epping Forest) Bill to require the Prime Minister to establish a public inquiry into the Government’s handling of the coronavirus - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Jul. 16 2020

Source Page: Human Rights and Democracy Report 2019
Document: Human Rights and Democracy Report 2019 (PDF)

Found: ...................................64 Preface by the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab As I write, the coronavirus

Written Question
Kurds: Coronavirus
Wednesday 15th July 2020

Asked by: Jack Lopresti (Conservative - Filton and Bradley Stoke)

Question to the Department for International Development:

What steps her Department is taking to promote measures to limit the spread of covid-19 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Answered by James Cleverly - Home Secretary

During a recent ‘virtual visit’, the Secretary of State was inspired to meet young Iraqi entrepreneurs who are helping develop the Iraqi economy. The UK stands with Iraq as it responds to the coronavirus outbreak. We are working closely with UN and international partners to help Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, manage the pandemic whilst continuing to meet the needs of the most vulnerable, including displaced people living in camps.

Select Committee
Kasra Aarabi (Analyst at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change), Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi (Senior Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute), Behnam Ben Taleblu (Senior Fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies), Ellie Geranmayeh (Deputy Director at Middle East and North Africa programme, European Council on Foreign Relations), Charlie Loudon (International Legal Adviser at Redress), Dr Sanam Vakil (Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House), and Dr Anicée Van Engeland (Senior Lecturer in International Security at Cranfield University)
 Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Royal United Services Institute, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Middle East and North Africa programme, European Council on Foreign Relations, Redress, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House, and Cranfield University

Oral Evidence Jul. 08 2020

Inquiry: The UK and Iran
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: It went so far that Afghan refugees thought the coronavirus only struck Iranians.

Select Committee
The National Council of Resistance of Iran - UK Representative Office
 UKI0011 - The UK and Iran

Written Evidence Jun. 03 2020

Inquiry: The UK and Iran
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: has more than 500 members, including representatives of ethnic and religious minorities such as the Kurds