House of Lords - 11th December 2023Debate initiated by Baroness Anelay of St Johns https://youtu.be/XMtiRfqLP-I Full text to follow shortly
House of Lords Debate on the Intelligence and Security Committee report into the threats posed by China – October 19th 2023
https://youtu.be/UIh_j7dtr1A Lord Alton of Liverpool(CB)My Lords, I begin by thanking the Leader of the House, the noble Lord, Lord True, for delivering on the promise he gave the House that this debate on the Intelligence and Security Committee report would take...
Lord (Andrew) Sharpe is an exceptionally good Minister but he should give Sir Humphrey piece of his mind. To say the Government won’t make any announcements about how to deal with CCP spies at Westminster “until it has gone through all the proper processes” beggars belief. They have known about this for 2 years and ignored it.
Subject: Written answer to your QWA HL10120 received from Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the Home Office Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL10120): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool: To ask His...
Government confirms that despite being accused of Genocide, and imprisoning pro democracy advocates like British citizen Jimmy Lai, the U.K. Government is sending Trade Ministers to line pockets through new lucrative trade deals – including meeting senior CCP operatives. Scandalous.
Lord Johnson of Lainston, Department for Business and Trade, provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL10125): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool : To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the most recent visit by Lord...
Call for Action against diplomats of the People’s Republic of China
In Parliament today I called for action against diplomats of the People's Republic of China diplomats involved in the assault of HK protestors at Manchester Consulate, including banning them from The United Kingdom, seeking compensation from the CCP for the cost of...
£51 Million of taxpayers’ money was given to the Peoples’ Republic of China last year
Government Minister admits that last year more than £51 Million of taxpayers’ money was given to the Peoples’ Republic of China (with whom the UK has a trade deficit of more than £40 billion). Is this what the Prime Minster means when he says our dealings with the CCP...
Procurement of PPE from China – links to slave labour and allegations of profiteering
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...
Government accused of sending contradictory and confusing messages on China. HMG challenged over dependency, resilience, pouring money into CCP coffers, Uyghurs, Hong Kong, the widespread abuse of human rights, and subversion of law and UN institutions.
Human Rights: China. House of Lords debate.Thursday 17 November 2022 https://youtu.be/uTB7ZAzJpGY Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, the whole House is indebted to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans for the—as always—exemplary way in which he...
Government has “serious concerns about the situation in Xinjiang” but decline to say it will ban the marketing of goods made with Uyghur forced labour.
Government tell Lord Alton it have “serious concerns about the situation in Xinjiang” but decline to say it will ban the marketing of goods made with Uyghur forced labour. Viscount Younger of Leckie, the Department for International Trade, has provided the following...
International Relations and Defence Committee – The Rt Hon Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence – 1st November 2022
Tuesday 1 November 2022 Meeting Subject: Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to realityWitness(es): The Rt Hon Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence, Ministry of Defence; Major General David Eastman, Assistant Chief of Defence Staff -...
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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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...
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