Formal Minutes Apr. 25 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: (Registered 14 March 2023) • Name of donor: Government of Pakistan, Speaker's Office Address of
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) When did we last specifically raise the plight of children with Pakistan? - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) I, too, warmly welcome the increase in the aid budget for Pakistan, as others have. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) UK support in partnership with Pakistan in 2017-18 was £441 million. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Pakistan has one of the highest numbers of bonded labourers in the world. - Speech Link
Formal Minutes Apr. 25 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: (Registered 14 March 2023) • Name of donor: Government of Pakistan, Speaker's Office Address of
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Lady and I have spoken up on the persecution of Christians across the middle east, Pakistan and India - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) We worked on tackling the persecution of Christians in Pakistan and other countries, and of course the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) The most common origin countries for which family-related visas were granted last year were Pakistan - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) people working in Indian restaurants who want to bring particularly skilled chefs over from India, Pakistan - Speech Link
Asked by: Fabian Hamilton (Labour - Leeds North East)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the alleged assassination of alleged terrorists in Pakistan by the Indian government.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
All countries should respect sovereignty and the rule of law. India and Pakistan are long-standing, important friends of the UK and we encourage both to engage in dialogue and find lasting, diplomatic solutions to maintain regional stability. The UK strongly believes in the importance of peaceful co-existence. It would be inappropriate to comment further.
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: Wimbledon Responsibilities include: ● The Commonwealth ● Middle East and North Africa ● Afghanistan and Pakistan
Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) Minister, first turned their back on those to whom we promised sanctity by cancelling flights from Pakistan - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the British Army in Afghanistan, alongside his comrade and friend, an Afghan who now happens to be in Pakistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Some of them in Pakistan are being threatened with being sent back to Afghanistan, based upon the experience - Speech Link