Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to reality Witnesses: Dr Rob Johnson, Director of SONAC, Ministry of Defence; John Ridge, Director of Defence Innovation, Ministry of Defence; Dr Nicholas Joad, Director of Defence Science and Technology, Ministry of...
Speech given in House of Lords China Debate: October 20th.
https://youtu.be/ca5GQduSrZc Speech given in China Debate: October 20th. I declare my interests as VC of the All-Party Groups on Uyghurs and Hong Kong. I am a Patron of Hong Kong Watch and a member of the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China. Notwithstanding...
Attack by CCP Consulate-General diplomats in Manchester
My question to the UK Government Minister Zac Goldsmith about the grievous bodily harm inflicted upon a peaceful protester on Sunday 16th October, outside the Chinese Communist Party Consulate General in Manchester, and the CCP believing it is above the law and can...
Artificial Intelligence in U.K. Defence & Security
International Relations and Defence CommitteeWednesday 20 July 2022Subject: Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to reality Lord Alton asked Professor Kenneth Payne and Professor Simona Soare about the future role of Artificial Intelligence in U.K....
China: UK must strengthen resilience, protect cutting-edge technology, and safeguard our research facilities.
In Parliament Lord Alton highlighted betrayal of the national interest, by allowing the UK's security, academia, technology, and political systems to be interfered with by the Chinese Communist Party. Look through the lens of Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Wuhan, or...
Procurement Bill – procurement of goods made in states credibly accused of genocide and states using slave labour
House of Lords, Wednesday 25 May 2022 Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, with his customary thoroughness in opening today’s debate, the noble Lord, Lord True, outlined the purpose of this Procurement Bill with its 13 parts, 116 clauses and 11 schedules. We have...
Queen’s Speech debate – China and the forthcoming 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong
House of Lords - Queen's Speech Debate Wednesday 18 May 2022 7.20pm Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, 1 July will see the 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. “One country, two systems”—which might have been a...
China & Putin’s War: International Relations & Defence Committee
International Relations and Defence CommitteeWednesday 18 May 2022 Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to reality. Lord Alton's questions to witness Meia Nouwens, Senior Fellow for Chinese Defence Policy and Military Modernisation, International...
Parliament debates forced organ harvesting
House of Lords4th February 2022 Today- on the day the Genocide Olympics opened in Beijing - I told Parliament that grievous human rights violations such as forced organ harvesting and Genocide in Xinjiang puts Beijing on a par with Hitler’s Olympics in 1936...
What is the Government doing to contest the challenges posed by China to the Commonwealth and the UK’s interests in Africa? – House of Lords International Relations & Defence Committee
International Relations and Defence Committee Wednesday 26 January 2022.Witness: Vicky Ford MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, Minister for Africa https://youtu.be/1GMVYVwcAdg Minister, can you say something about...
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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Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide – Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time.
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...