Ed Miliband

Labour — Doncaster North

Government roles held

Written answers given

• What role will the Secretary of State’s Department play in the new national centre for information defence, and when wil
• 1. What recent discussions he has had with European allies on tackling foreign interference in democratic processes inte
• I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for those remarks, but with Russian-linked interference operations continuing to
• For a decade we have rightly been worried about the impact of misinformation on social media fuelled by hostile foreign
• Does the Foreign Secretary accept that it would be a disservice to the democratic process to identify attempts to interf
• Meur ras ha myttin da, Mr Speaker. Last Wednesday, Georgia’s constitutional court began hearings on a lawsuit brought by
• Moscow ships stalk our cables, Tehran’s agents seek to assassinate on our soil, and last week the Pentagon declared Conf
• Foreign money can be used to influence politics through sport. On 17 December last year, the Government gave Roman Abram
• His trial was unfair, and the 20-year sentence extension was arbitrary and outrageous—will the Secretary of State now un
• 16. What steps his Department is taking to oppose the expansion of illegal settlements in the west bank.
• The Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din has found that between 2005 and 2023 more than 93% of investigations into
• Thank you, Mr Speaker. I welcome the Government’s new sanctions to address illegal settlement expansion in the west ban
• I thank the Secretary of State for his responses so far. The E1 scheme is a further terrifying situation for Palestinian
• As we speak right now, Israel is yet again pursuing its brutal policy of collective punishment in the west bank, with He
• The Foreign Secretary mentions people running the risk of the full force of the sanctions regime, given the new powers t
• The Foreign Secretary pledged to take action against specific companies that provide services for settlement expansion i
• Alongside the expansion of illegal settlements, as we have heard, there has been growing concern about violence perpetra
• On 14 October, the UN’s international commission of inquiry on the OPT and Israel published its latest report. I quote p
• Just over a year ago, I and my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Dr Prinsley) were detained and
• The Government have declared the occupation unlawful, and their measures on settlements depend on reliable evidence of w
• 6. What discussions he has had with European partners on defence and security.
• The attack on the then British Prime Minister’s home last year was linked to Russian-backed proxies attempting to underm
• In the discussions that the Foreign Secretary is holding with European countries, is he also emphasising the vital role
• I learnt a great deal during my trip to Ukraine last month. I learnt that the Ukrainians see themselves as Europeans, th
• The Prime Minister told President Zelensky recently that he stood “in complete solidarity” with Ukraine over President T
• In recent months, our European allies have become increasingly forthright in publicly naming hostile states responsible
• Our defence and our economy are closely tied, and both depend on our relationship with our closest neighbours. The Prime
• As winter bites and the humanitarian situation worsens, will the Secretary of State commit to supplying food aid to Gaza
• T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
• Last year, the Intelligence and Security Committee concluded that Iran poses a widespread, persistent and unpredictable
• Mr Speaker, I hope you will indulge me as I say a very quick thank you to the Clerk of the House, who is in his place an
• I thank the Foreign Secretary for his comments. The reason I asked about the vote in the Lords is this: there seems to b
• T5. While knocking on doors in Denton Burn in Newcastle on Saturday, a resident said to me that we see these terrible im
• T7. The Foreign Office facilitated a trip to Dublin for the Scottish First Minister, John Swinney. There, he met the egr
• T9. Given the increasing evidence of hybrid attacks by Russia on British targets, will the Foreign Secretary rule out sh
• I have had a great deal of trouble getting a straight answer from the Government on this for some months now, so I will
• The Foreign Secretary and I represent communities 15 miles apart—decent, hard-working people who are finding life very t

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