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Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Gender Birth Ratios (21 May 2013)

Anna Soubry: ...ratios either lower than 103 (seven countries) or higher than 108 (three countries). However, the tests undertaken indicate a strong probability that this is occurring by chance. Only one country, Sri Lanka, was found to have a birth ratio significantly different from the figure of 105.1 for the UK as a whole. Mothers born in Sri Lanka have a birth ratio of 99.2 or 99 male children for...

Business of the House (16 May 2013)

Simon Hughes: ...colleagues’ obsessing about Europe, may we have, before the summer break, a serious debate about the Commonwealth countries and south Asia? There is a controversial Commonwealth conference in Sri Lanka, there has been a recent terrible tragedy with wider implications and civil disorder in Bangladesh, there is a new Government of Pakistan, there are difficulties in Maldives and there...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (5th Day) (15 May 2013) See 4 other results from this debate

Lord Astor of Hever: ...with and role within the Commonwealth. Because of the importance we attach to the Commonwealth, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have decided to attend this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka. Many noble Lords, as one would expect, touched on the EU, which was well covered by my noble friend Lady Northover. David Cameron has said that if he is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 May 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

Simon Hughes: I have to tell my friend that I cannot support the decision of the Prime Minister to go to the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference in Sri Lanka because of the human rights record of the Sri Lankan Government. What can the Deputy Prime Minister tell us about how we can respond to that terrible regime’s record? What can we do to make sure that in future the Commonwealth does not...

Burma (Human Rights) (8 May 2013)

David Burrowes: ...should be witnesses to what is happening there. Many of us have raised the importance of witnesses and independent investigations in relation to conflicts in other parts of the world, not least in Sri Lanka. However, those points need to be balanced with the need to encourage Burma along the way of democracy and recognising the rule of law. It must increasingly have its own robust,...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners: Repatriation (25 April 2013)

Jeremy Wright: ...Rwanda — — — — — — St. Lucia — — — — — — Saudi Arabia — — — — — — Sri Lanka — — — — 1 — Suriname — — — — — — Thailand 4 1 4 4 7 3 United Arab Emirates —...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Sri Lanka (23 April 2013)

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Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: CHOGM (Colombo) (23 April 2013) See 4 other results from this debate

Ann Clwyd: What discussions he has had with his Commonwealth counterparts about the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo in 2013 and the progress being made on tackling human rights abuses in Sri Lanka.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Sri Lanka (23 April 2013)

Karl Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Sri Lankan government since the UN Human Rights Council resolution on political reconciliation in that country.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Sri Lanka (18 April 2013)

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the BBC World Service's decision to suspend broadcasts in Sri Lanka; and what discussions he has had with the government of Sri Lanka about interference with that service.

Death of a Member: Baroness Thatcher — Tributes (10 April 2013)

Lord Naseby: ...give of Margaret and her ability and understanding of people and countries was after we took over in 1979 and I was on the Back Benches as a PPS in Northern Ireland. Even then, I had an interest in Sri Lanka. Judith Hart had commissioned something called the Victoria Dam in Sri Lanka. I knew about the dam-it would cost about £100 million-and I asked to see the Prime Minister to...

Business of the House (26 March 2013)

John Hemming: ...the UK Government. Last week I spoke at the Polish embassy, at a conference about care proceedings. Concerns have now also been raised by Nigeria, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Latvia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Spain and Turkey. EWHC 521 (Fam) of Mostyn J. When the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) apologised to the children who were forcibly sent to the Commonwealth,...

Crime and Courts Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (25 March 2013)

Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury: ...making public the stories of the forgotten. In the case of her last despatch, it was the people of Homs. She knew about state control of the press and experienced it in East Timor, in Chechnya, in Sri Lanka and, finally, in Syria where the state targeted the media centre she was working from and killed her. The royal charter and its independent press regulator, properly underpinned-to use...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Overseas Students (25 March 2013)

Mark Harper: ...of these changes for individual nationalities does not indicate a clear or consistent relationship. The nationalities accounting for most of the 52,066 fall in study visas issued (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) have seen only very slight changes in the number of student visitor visas issued (+73, +20, +8 and -12 respectively). The Home Office Immigration Statistics...

Justice for Tamils (20 March 2013) See 5 other results from this debate

Alistair Burt: I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford North (Mr Scott) on securing the debate. His tireless work to raise the profile of human rights issues in Sri Lanka and to seek accountability for events that took place during the war is well known to the House. His speech demonstrated his passion and commitment to the cause. I do not know what his definition of a coward is, but he does...

Sri Lanka (20 March 2013) See 6 other results from this debate

Alistair Burt: ...to bring attention not only to that tragic case but to the wider circumstances that have been described. It is no secret that the United Kingdom has a number of concerns about progress in Sri Lanka, a country with which we have long and very strong ties but about which we have everyday worries that are shared by a number of other nations. One of our dearest wishes is that balance and...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Dogs: Imports (20 March 2013)

David Heath: ...,637 Portugal 595 Romania 1,855 Russia 117 San Marino 1 Saudi Arabia 1 Singapore 34 Slovakia 481 Slovenia 172 Spain 6,712 South Africa 3 South Korea 1 Sri Lanka 1 St Vincent 3 Sudan 1 Sweden 577 Switzerland 883 Taiwan 5 Tanzania 1 Thailand 3 Trinidad and Tobago 6 Turkey 2 UAE 230 USA 1,030 ...

Backbench Business — Commonwealth Day — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (14 March 2013) See 6 other results from this debate

Hugo Swire: ...of hardware and software support. The right hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, and other hon. Members, rightly raised what I consider to be the elephant in the room—the issues of CHOGM and Sri Lanka, and the attendance of the Government. The Government of Sri Lanka, as we all know, face considerable challenges in building a sustainable peace for all Sri Lankans, and they...

[Mr Dai Havard in the Chair] — FCO: Human Rights Work (14 March 2013) See 4 other results from this debate

Hugo Swire: ...UN establishes a commission of inquiry into human rights abuses there. We share the Committee’s concern, particularly that of the hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes), about human rights in Sri Lanka—we might discuss that in the debate following this one—not least relating to disappearances, political violence, free expression and judicial independence. More needs...