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Andrew Mitchell: .... It is therefore my pleasure to respond on the Government’s behalf. I will try to respond to the points raised by my hon. Friend, but if I omit any, I will of course write to him. The UK and Sri Lanka have a long shared history, as marked by the 75th anniversary of our diplomatic relations this year. We are bound by strong relationships between our institutions, businesses and, most...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park: ...to Cuba. The only issue that seems to be of interest to Parliament at the moment relates to the British Indian Ocean Territory, where we have a particular problem with refugees, mostly from Sri Lanka, who are inhabiting an area that is effectively uninhabitable. There we have particular issues and it is in those circumstances where the Rwanda option may be the best one.
Jim Shannon: ...English language standard. In the meeting that we had with the Minister for Immigration in January, the fishing organisations outlined how they were going to achieve that goal through a college in Sri Lanka that could train the fishermen and fisherwomen up to a standard of the English language that enables them to come here and fit into the scheme. We had some indication from the...
Lord Mann: To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the UN Human Rights Council about the situation of Tamil communities in Sri Lanka.
Lord Brennan: .... We have undertaken, in general terms, to deepen co-operation with them on climate change, nature loss and environmental depletion. I endorse the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Naseby, about Sri Lanka, with which I am also very familiar. As the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, remarked, we have lands in the Commonwealth, and islands, but Sri Lanka is a noble combination of the two: a...
Laura Trott: ...North Korea 0 Panama 28 Philippines 1,564 Puerto Rico 4 Republic of the Congo 2 Russia 5 Saudi Arabia 3 Serbia & Montenegro 77 Seychelles 2 Singapore 191 Slovakia 8 Sri Lanka 30 St Lucia 457 St Vincent/Grenadines 190 Sudan 5 Swaziland 2 Switzerland 105 Syria 6 Taiwan 17 Tanzania 34 Trinidad & Tobago 264 Turks & Caicos Islands...
Laura Trott: ...North Korea 0 Panama 28 Philippines 1,564 Puerto Rico 4 Republic of the Congo 2 Russia 5 Saudi Arabia 3 Serbia & Montenegro 77 Seychelles 2 Singapore 191 Slovakia 8 Sri Lanka 30 St Lucia 457 St Vincent/Grenadines 190 Sudan 5 Swaziland 2 Switzerland 105 Syria 6 Taiwan 17 Tanzania 34 Trinidad & Tobago 264 Turks & Caicos Islands...
Laura Trott: ...Sierra Leone 18 27 Singapore 514 359 Country of State Pension receipt Male Female Solomon Islands .. .. Somalia 9 13 South Africa 12,932 17,411 South Korea 288 91 Sri Lanka 557 572 St Helena & Deps 56 48 St Lucia 376 454 St Vincents & Grenadines 221 229 Sudan 5 .. Surinam 5 .. Swaziland 42 37 Syria 5 .. Tahiti 7 .. ...
...Dominican Republic Malawi Sint Maarten Aruba Egypt Maldives Somalia Azerbaijan El Salvador Mali South Korea Bahrain Equatorial Guinea Martinique South Sudan Bangladesh Eritrea Mauritania Sri Lanka Barbados Ethiopia Mayotte St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Belize French Guiana Mongolia St Kitts and Nevis Benin Gabon Montserrat Sudan Bermuda Georgia Namibia Suriname Bhutan...
Preet Kaur Gill: ...a greater reminder of our place in a global community of nations than my own family story and home. Birmingham is a Commonwealth city; the diverse heritage of my constituents span from Pakistan to Sri Lanka and Somalia to India, from where my family came. There are Brummies who can trace their roots to every corner of the Commonwealth. As a city, our diversity is our greatest strength, and...
Tim Loughton: ...104 ports and has its teeth in infrastructure projects around the world. It effectively holds Governments to ransom, with huge loans imposed on them. We know what has happened with the port in Sri Lanka, the airport in Uganda and some of the schemes that have fallen to pieces. It places huge debts on many east African countries in particular, which is the real characteristic of the belt...
Tan Dhesi: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Sri Lankan counterparts on human rights in Sri Lanka.
Tan Dhesi: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the political and security situation in Sri Lanka.
Fleur Anderson: ...State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Chunnakam power plant complex on the water supply in northern Sri Lanka; and whether he has taken recent steps with his international counterparts to help (a) support the health of citizens affected by water contamination, (b) improve accessibility to clean...
Lord Purvis of Tweed: ...the red-carpet treatment given to Sergey Lavrov by our friends in South Africa, and the naval exercises that South Africa, China and Russia will be carrying out in just 10 days’ time. India and Sri Lanka have increased oil purchases, and the gold trade from the east and southern Africa via the Gulf and into Moscow is flourishing. In certain sectors, the rouble is strong. Four years of...
Lord Murray of Blidworth: ...Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Réunion Romania San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Gambia Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turks and Caicos Islands Türkiye...
Lord Leigh of Hurley: My Lords, on 23 April 2019, two British citizens, Daniel and Amelie Linsey, were killed in a terrorist attack in Sri Lanka. At the time, there was great difficulty in bringing their bodies back, and the Foreign Secretary then said he recognised that the Foreign Office had a weakness in its procedures. The Linseys were dual citizens, and the United States Embassy was much more efficient and...
Andrew Mitchell: ...metres of land. The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) has also been funding mine action projects as part of wider stabilisation and conflict programming in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Libya, Sri Lanka and Yemen.
James Heappey: ...following 18 Indo-Pacific countries: Australia Bangladesh Brunei China Fiji India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Nepal New Zealand Pakistan Philippines Republic of Korea Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam