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Westminster Hall
Recognition of Western Sahara as Moroccan - Wed 08 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) Yes, we do go overseas on visits where we try to increase our understanding of other nations. - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) after generation lives with precious little opportunity, almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Hamas terrorist allies brought mass murder to Israelis on 7 October, and they have brought pain to the Palestinians—both - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It is popular to make sure that we properly defend these isles and defend our interests overseas. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) As senior US military and naval officers are not slow to remind us, UK bases overseas remain absolutely - Speech Link
4: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) To see so many Palestinians killed that the Israelis lose the moral high ground of defending themselves - Speech Link
5: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) We have laid on various welcome home events when people come back from overseas deployments and laid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) Most people in this country and overseas would assume, then, that when the Foreign Secretary utters on - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) This amendment would be deleterious to the Palestinians themselves. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) There may be some factories employing Palestinians that have been closed down, but thousands of Palestinians - Speech Link
3: None Recently I was the chair of Christian Aid and we did quite a lot of work in Gaza—there was a lot on educational - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As set out in FCDO guidance on overseas business risk, there are clear risks related to economic and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) fighting, which is the best route to secure the safe release of hostages and significantly step up aid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) programme supports the protection and sustainable management of 4.3 million sq km of ocean around Britain’s overseas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) The Deputy Foreign Secretary will be aware that over 90% of the UK’s biodiversity is within the overseas - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) The overseas territories are not suppliers of plastic but they are receivers of a lot of it, and that - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) the rights of Palestinians. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) the rights of Palestinians. - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
Israel-Iran April 2024: UK and international response - CBP-10002
Apr. 23 2024

Found: Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a 200,000 -strong armed force of the Iranian state which also works overseas


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

Apr. 19 2024

Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024
Document: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024 (webpage)

Found: Iran’s harassment, intimidation and plots to kill perceived dissidents and opponents of the regime overseas


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Amendment 26, is the implication for charitable organisations delivering public functions in terms of overseas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Therefore, the ban would not restrict how such bodies decide, for example, to distribute humanitarian aid - Speech Link
3: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) destruction of olive trees and olive orchards; at least 2.5 million trees have been destroyed since 1967, yet Palestinians - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) decisions about companies or products that are destroying the natural environment, including pollution overseas - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) The only people who would be hurt are the impoverished Palestinians working in the businesses in the - Speech Link
2: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) is why it is sitting on so much of the food supply; that is why there are lorries waiting to deliver aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and that those powers enable fair and equal treatment of overseas - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The Government agree and say that this is a terrible problem, that it is confusing for our partners overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We want Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security. - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) That could not be more vital given the terrible human cost of the war, with more than 30,000 Palestinians - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) deteriorating situation in Gaza, does he agree that it is vital that the Cabinet Minister responsible for overseas - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) I recently met Medical Aid for Palestinians, which talked about the severe difficulties with rules on - Speech Link