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Select Committee
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, and Heritage Foundation

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, and Heritage Foundation


Select Committee
Middle East Program, CSIS, RUSI, Jonathan Wilks, and The University of Exeter

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Middle East Program, CSIS, RUSI, Jonathan Wilks, and The University of Exeter Oral Evidence


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) major project in Government and be managed well and properly. - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) That is why I came into politics in the first place. - Speech Link
3: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) including through several Government-owned and Government-constructed, company-operated plants. - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) She talked about “slow politics”, where decisions are made with a long-term strategic perspective at - Speech Link
5: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) and not have them sunk, and that the natives in Yemen are the natives we used to push around for a century - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) politics should not be brought into sport. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) politics: “Which is the best country in the world?” - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The regime continues to intervene in Yemen, one of the world’s worst human rights crises, and was responsible - Speech Link
4: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) People say that it is sport and not politics, but clearly the two cannot be separated that easily. - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Commission for Countering Extremism

Mar. 11 2024

Source Page: Understanding and responding to blasphemy extremism
Document: Understanding and Responding to Blasphemy Extremism in the UK (PDF)

Found: Understanding and responding to blasphemy extremism


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gale (Lab - Life peer) Getting women into positions of power in all walks of life, such as politics, business, public bodies - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) That includes local government and justice. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) As all noble Lords know, I work in food politics. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) justice while women in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, Eritrea, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) I first got into politics because of a fluke in our electoral system. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 07 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) we look to progress as much as we can in this country in politics, in education, in the workplace and - Speech Link
2: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) in politics and public life. - Speech Link
3: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) The first piece, by Threa Almontaser, from “Operation Restoring Hope”, in “The Wild Fox of Yemen”, is - Speech Link
4: Maguire, Ruth (SNP - Cunninghame South) The accompanying human suffering is horrific, as we are witnessing in Ukraine, Yemen and Gaza. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) This includes Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah, militia groups in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) We have moved beyond the intricacies of Brexit that soured politics for so long and there is an opportunity - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Lab - Life peer) Yemen, see Iran exacerbate already deeply troubled states. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) Iran and its satellites in Syria, Yemen and Gaza are determined to spread their hate across the western - Speech Link
5: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) Such are the quirks of politics, I suppose.I shall concentrate on one topic, and that is economic sanctions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) former president of the World Bank:“Policymakers rarely find opportunities based on sound policy, good politics - Speech Link
2: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) In Yemen, in DRC, in Ethiopia, in Sudan and South Sudan and in Ukraine, conflict has exacerbated a global - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Secondly, the published value of UK arms sales licensed to Saudi Arabia since the bombing of Yemen began - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Some force themselves upon us, such as the Houthi war in Yemen, and affect our shipping and food prices - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) politics, that every morning I am proud to walk up the steps in King Charles Street, walk past the statue - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conversion Practices (Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) But after months of meetings, quiet conversations, going on BBC “Politics Live”, offering a meeting to - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) create a consensus that hate and torture are not welcome in the UK regardless of our politics. - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) Here in the UK, our lawyers delight in using the European Court to pursue their politics, and that is - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) Instead, the media narrative and our politics are driven by attempts to stoke division. - Speech Link
5: Suella Braverman (Con - Fareham) legally prescribed as punishment for same-sex sexual acts in Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Yemen - Speech Link