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Cybersecurity and UK Democracy - Statement (26 Mar 2024)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...subservient and often into vassal states that do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party, particularly in the United Nations. I think the noble Baroness was right to raise the issue of Sri Lanka particularly; it requires greater scrutiny. The biggest issue that the Intelligence and Security Committee pointed to in its much-delayed report, when it was finally published, was the potential...

Sri Lanka: Human Rights — [Dame Maria Miller in the Chair] (20 Mar 2024)

Elliot Colburn: I thank the Minister for his response. I also thank all right hon. and hon. Members for their contributions, particularly my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), and the hon. Members for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh)—I have not yet had a chance to congratulate her on her damehood. We cannot...

Foreign Affairs - Motion to Take Note ( 5 Mar 2024)

Lord Naseby: ...I will move on to a country I know probably better than any other. I served there in 1963 for the Reckitt & Colman Group, and I started the all-party parliamentary group. Of course, I refer to Sri Lanka, a country that has faced incredible problems. On the climate side, the tsunami hit Sri Lanka and the Maldives really hard. I remember my wife and I watching it on Boxing Day and, a few...

Foreign Affairs - Motion to Take Note ( 5 Mar 2024)

Lord Naseby: ...I will move on to a country I know probably better than any other. I served there in 1963 for the Reckitt & Colman Group, and I started the all-party parliamentary group. Of course, I refer to Sri Lanka, a country that has faced incredible problems. On the climate side, the tsunami hit Sri Lanka and the Maldives really hard. I remember my wife and I watching it on Boxing Day and, a few...

Sri Lankan Tamils and Human Rights — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] ( 5 Dec 2023)

Catherine West: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. It has been an excellent debate. We have heard from the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day); from those with extensive parliamentary experience, such as my right hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) and the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn); and, of course,...

King’s Speech - Debate (6th Day) (15 Nov 2023)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...Secretary will need to reflect on that and on the role that he played in the vast Port City Colombo in Sri Lanka—a signature project for Xi Jinping’s belt and road initiative—which, as Sir Iain Duncan Smith rightly pointed out, may one day act as a Chinese military outpost in the Indo-Pacific. China has used its belt and road programme to indebt nations and to require recipient...

Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Trade Promotion ( 7 Aug 2023)

Lord Johnson of Lainston: ...Marco Longhi MP (Con) August 2021 AFRICA Algeria Lord Risby of Haverhill (Con) November 2012 Uganda & Rwanda (watching brief for DRC) Lord Popat (Con) January 2016 Egypt and Cameroon Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP (DUP) January 2016 & August 2021 for Cameroon Nigeria Helen Grant MP (Con) October 2020 Kenya Theo Clarke MP (Con) Reappointed May 2023 South Africa &...

Commonwealth Day — [Mr James Gray in the Chair] (21 Mar 2023)

Preet Kaur Gill: .... We have heard much today about the power of the Commonwealth—its strength, size, diversity and vitality. We have also heard great examples, from the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East (Sir James Duddridge), my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport (Navendu Mishra) and the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), of the work and collaboration that the Commonwealth fosters...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Sri Lanka: Human Rights (13 Mar 2023)

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: We regularly raise human rights with the Government of Sri Lanka. The British High Commission in Colombo was able to do so most recently with senior representatives of the Sri Lankan government in February. The FCDO Permanent Under Secretary, Sir Philip Barton, spoke to Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Ali Sabry, during a visit to Sri Lanka on 17 January. He emphasised the UK would support human...

NHS Workforce ( 6 Dec 2022)

Karin Smyth: In 1948, at the dawn of the NHS, we were around 50,000 nurses short. By the 1960s, 40% of junior doctors were from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Thousands came from the Caribbean. It is estimated that by the 1970s, 12% of British nurses were Irish nationals, my own family among them. My Aunt Margaret Carter came to Stockport and my cousin Maureen McNulty came to Leeds. Britain...

Sri Lanka ( 9 Nov 2022)

Leo Docherty: ...I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn) for leading it. I also thank the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney), the right hon. Member for East Ham (Sir Stephen Timms) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Theresa Villiers) for securing it. We have heard a number of moving contributions, reflecting the deep humanitarian...

Human Rights Abuses and Corruption: UK Sanctions (21 Jul 2022)

Wendy Chamberlain: I congratulate the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) on securing this debate and thank the Backbench Business Committee. I will not be taking part in the Sir David Amess Adjournment debate, so I want to place on record the thanks of my party to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to Mr Speaker and the wider...

Sri Lanka - Question (21 Jul 2022)

Lord Moylan: ...asked a similar Question on 16 May, the Government said they were monitoring the situation; it is hard to fault them for lack of consistency—they are still “monitoring”. The situation in Sri Lanka is dire: people are starving, people are dying for want of medicine, and fuel and electricity are scarce. Practical and immediate help, more than monitoring, is needed. Britain, as a...

Fashion Supply Chain (Code and Adjudicator) (13 Jul 2022)

Liz Twist: ...furlough fraud. The revelations about working conditions were not confined to the UK: 2020 saw millions of workers—largely women—made destitute in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam as suppliers were forced to lay off workers and were unable to pay living wages. Indeed, the garment sector has been identified by the United Nations International Labour...

Afghanistan - Motion to Take Note (18 Aug 2021)

Lord Naseby: My Lords, I have a deep and loving relationship with and understanding of south Asia. I lived in Pakistan, I lived and worked in India for several years and I lived and worked in Sri Lanka. I go to that part of the world as often as possible. These last few weeks have been a bleak time for western democracy there, particularly for the USA and the UK. I am reminded of partition and the horrors...

Covid-19: Religious and Ethnic Minority Communities — [Sir Christopher Chope in the Chair] (22 Jun 2021)

Jim Shannon: ...who have participated in this debate. The hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Joy Morrissey) made a very valuable contribution, for which I thank her. It is good to have those types of intervention, Sir Christopher. We used to have them in Westminster Hall, and hopefully, we will have them again when we return there. I also thank the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady) for his...

World Oceans Day 2021 — [Stewart Hosie in the Chair] ( 8 Jun 2021)

Selaine Saxby: ...projects, including those investing in seaweeds, seagrass and salt marshes. I am truly fortunate that I spend my weekends in and on the sea, surfing and gig rowing. I live and breathe the ocean. Sir David Attenborough’s legendary “Blue Planet” brought the ocean to all our living rooms, and we now need to link that passion to action to ensure that it is there for future generations....

Queen’s Speech - Debate (6th Day) (19 May 2021)

Lord Naseby: My Lords, I welcome the gracious Speech. My comments will be on global Britain, specifically the Indo-Pacific tilt. My own background is that I have lived and worked in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and I know the rest of ASEAN quite well. I will specifically address Sri Lanka, and I declare an interest as joint chair of the all-party group. Today in Sri Lanka, there is huge tension over the...

Commonwealth Day 2021 — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] (16 Mar 2021)

Stephen Doughty: ...for Harrow West (Gareth Thomas) in raising this issue. Like him, I am a Co-operative MP and deeply concerned about the issue, as is the Co-operative party. The hon. Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess) made important points about the Maldives and fishing, which have also been recently raised with me. Will the Minister explain how he will work with his colleagues at the Department...

Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill: Clause 1 - Guidance about the costs of school uniforms: England (12 Mar 2021)

Christopher Chope: ...the Member for Wellingborough supported the amendment. He has an enormous amount of experience on this subject and, as you may know, Mr Speaker, he was chair of the committee that took over from Sir Anthony Steen and deals with international people trafficking. He has shared with me the fact that the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on 3 December tries to promote the...


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