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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, overseas development assistance is often discussed in terms of percentages, ceilings and fiscal headroom. But on the ground, it looks very different: it looks like a clinic that is no longer open three days a week, a nutrition programme that quietly stops enrolling new children or a women’s safe space that closes because funding has ended. Since the reduction of UK aid from 0.7%...
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My Lords, I am grateful to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Leeds for raising this urgent Question and for his long-standing moral leadership, as he prepares to retire from this House. I know that he is not going to give up everything else that he has been doing and will plan to do. I thank him so much for everything he has done for us. I declare my interest as an ambassador for the...
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My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Barrow, welcome him to this House and thank him for the work that he has done and will continue to do for the people of Ukraine. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, for bringing this important debate to the House. After more than three and a half years of full-scale war in Ukraine, the human cost remains staggering. According to the UN, more...
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My Lords, we know that the elections have been postponed. Women leaders and women candidates are already preparing for office. Sudan has a 35% quota for women but, while all this is happening, women are being maimed or violently threatened and are not being allowed to stand and be open about that. What is the penholder doing to ensure that we have women candidates, that women can win and that...
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My Lords, I thank all those who kindly wrote to me and sent emails, including members of the public, religious organisations, religious leaders and many people in the medical profession. There is no greater responsibility than how we treat those at the end of their life—the vulnerable, the ill, the elderly and the dying—and that is precisely why this Bill troubles me so deeply. I will...
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My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord McCabe on his excellent maiden speech today, and I welcome my noble friend Lord Hennessy here. I congratulate my noble friend Lord Robertson on his leadership of the strategic defence review, arguably the most consequential reassessment of our national security in a generation. It is a document of ambition and urgency. It defines the threats we...
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I very much thank the Minister and her officers for all the time they have given us over the last year in being able to get this clause on the statutes tonight. I also thank my colleagues in the other place, in particular Lou Haigh and the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, for the work they have done and encouragement they have given us in this House to continue with the campaign. I also...
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My Lords, while we are sitting here, the UN is scaling back its aid due to historic funding cuts. It is cutting back from $44 billion to $29 billion because of a drop in contributions, particularly from the US and from other western countries, which are reducing aid in order to prioritise defence spending. Tom Fletcher, who leads the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,...
More of Baroness Goudie's speeches and debates
✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government what atrocity prevention measures they are taking in Sudan, in particular in Darfur, in accordance with the undertaking to prevent genocide in Article 1 of the Genocide Convention.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, RSF Systematic Mass Killings and Body Disposal in El-Fasher, North Darfur 26 October – 28 November 2025, published on 16 December.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they are having with the Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes about the situation in Sudan.
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To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to ratify the 2019 amendment to Article 8 of the Rome Statute.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they remain committed to Article 3, on the prohibition on torture, of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they remain committed to Article 8, on the qualified right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence, of the European Convention of Human Rights.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they remain committed to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review how the European Convention on Human Rights has been implemented in practice.
More of Baroness Goudie's written questions
