House of Lords - Monday 28 November 2022 Legislation: Procurement Bill - report stage (day 1) 3.45pm Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, I rise to support Amendments 3 and 17 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton. In so doing, I echo what she said...
Today I asked whether the Government had taken note of the all party amendment passed on Tuesday night urging more concerted action in dealing with companies and countries banned in jurisdictions of our closest allies and tainted by everything from genocide to slave...
Government responds to reports in The Diplomat on 14 September, of the alleged use of forced labour in Malaysian disposable glove factories and to questions about what due diligence the Department of Health carried out in relation to the use of forced labour...
Book to read: “The Order Of The Day” by Eric Vuillard. The corporations which benefited from the Reich’s concentration camps - and the politicians - didn’t give a tinker’s damn about incarcerated Jews, or to the annexation of Austria. Chilling parallels with Uyghur...
It is because of stories like this one about Yerzhan Kurman in today’s Telegraph- electrocuted with cattle prods, forced to sing Communist Party songs, and turned into slave labour - that tomorrow I am introducing my Private Members’ Bill on supply chain...
House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee 9th June 2021Witness: Graham Stuart MP, Minister for Exports, Department for International Trade; Nigel Adams MP, Minister for Asia, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Today, Nigel Adams MP,...
Lord Grimstone of Boscobel, the Department for International Trade, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL555): Government fails to follow US in introducing restrictions on imports of cotton goods made by slave labour in Uighur...
Xinjiang Forced Labour Camps - US says it’s Genocide 1.31pm Thursday January 28th Clause 1: Code rights in respect of land connected to leased premises Amendment 1 Moved byLord Alton of Liverpool Share this specific contribution 1: Clause 1, page 2,...
Xinjiang Forced Labour Camps - US says it’s Genocide https://youtu.be/4Rw1x9m9pGY 1.31pm Thursday January 28th Clause 1: Code rights in respect of land connected to leased premises Amendment 1 Moved byLord Alton of Liverpool Share this specific contribution...
Government challenged about the use of slave labour in Uighur camps in Xinjiang Baroness Williams of Trafford, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL8617): Question from Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her...
Lords Grand CommitteeThursday 25 April 2024 Full debate: https://youtu.be/VMSZpOq_oyk Lord Alton of Liverpool:I am grateful to all noble lords participating in today’s short debate about ways in which UK development aid to Pakistan- rising from £41.5 million this...
The Right Honourable Rishi Sunak MPPrime Minister10 Downing StreetLondonSW1A 2AAApril 24, 2024 Dear Prime Minister,I am writing to you on the occasion of the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On April24th, Armenians worldwide commemorate this day, which has...
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...