October 19th 2015 Modern Slavery Act Regulations debated in Parliament , followed by December 19th article for Huffington Post – Committee Stage of the Modern Slavery Bill – Amendments to Create a Fund from the Seized Assets of Traffickers – to help victims, charities and law enforcement agencies, – Amendments on Domestic Workers Visas, Gangmasters, Supply Chain Transparency
House of Lords Debate: October 19th 2015 Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Transparency in Supply Chains) Regulations 2015 Motion to Approve 7.01 pm Moved by Lord Bates That the draft regulations laid before the House on 7 September be approved. Relevant document: 4th Report...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Rwanda Act – Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK. Joint Committee on Human Rights 15th May 2024.
In the Joint Committee on Human Rights I pressed Minister Michael Tomlinson MP to accept that the Rwanda Act will not tackle the root causes of the mass displacement of more than 114 million people - and treatment of vulnerable human beings should not be treated like...
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Lord Alton will chair a meeting in the UK Parliament to commemorate the 1989, Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre. Tiananmen became the focus of large-scale protests - protests which were crushed...
House Magazine – Wake Up Call On CCP Subversion of Democracy: By aligning our response with that of our allies and by implementing robust measures, we should send a clear message to Beijing: that our internal affairs and democratic rights are off-limits to CCP interference.
For all the wrong reasons, China has been in the news again. On the back of a hack and theft of MOD data, accompanied by espionage and cyber-attacks, MI5 briefed Vice Chancellors last week that university research programmes are at risk from malign and hostile...