Sayeeda Appointed to the Cabinet

Parliament

• Sexual Violence in Conflict - Question (12 Jun 2019) June 12, 2019
  Baroness Warsi: My Lords, I pay tribute to the work of my noble friend the Minister and the Government, as well as the work led internationally by Members of this House, including my noble friends Lord Hague and Lady Helic. Will my noble friend explain whether victims’ voices will be central to the PSVI conference? Specifically, is she familiar with the UN r […]
• Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2019 - Motion to Approve: Amendment to the Motion (20 May 2019) May 20, 2019
  ...Lord Suri Lord Swinfen Lord Taylor of Holbeach (teller) Lord Tebbit Lord Trefgarne Viscount Trenchard Lord True Lord Tugendhat Baroness Vere of Norbiton Baroness Verma Lord Wakeham Baroness Warsi Lord Wasserman Lord Wei Baroness Wilcox Baroness Williams of Trafford Lord Woolf Lord Young of Cookham Viscount Younger of Leckie
• Definition of Islamophobia (16 May 2019) May 16, 2019
  Anna Soubry: ...a very small part in it. The hon. Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting) played a considerable part in bringing it all together, and I am sure he will agree that the report was driven by Baroness Warsi, a member and former chair of the Conservative party. Those are interesting and valid points. I speak as a former barrister. As a barrister, […]
• Scottish Parliament: Islamophobia (Definition) (25 Apr 2019) April 25, 2019
  Anas Sarwar: Today, we welcome to the Scottish Parliament Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Wes Streeting MP, who are officers of the all-party parliamentary group on British Muslims. The group’s landmark “Islamophobia Defined” report, which I as convener of the cross-party group on tackling Islamophobia and our secretary, Professor Peter Hopkins, who has done 10 y […]
• Written Answers — Home Office: Commission for Countering Extremism (8 Apr 2019) April 8, 2019
  Baroness Warsi: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 15 March 2018 (HLWS527), when the first annual report of the Commission for Countering Extremism is expected to be published.
• Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 Apr 2019) April 3, 2019
  Naseem Shah: ...Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia, the Prime Minister refuses. Despite repeated calls for an independent inquiry into institutional Islamophobia in the Tory party by the former chair, Baroness Warsi, the Muslim Council of Britain and the Tories’ own Conservative Muslim Forum, the Prime Minister again refuses. The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, s […]
• Terrorist Attack: New Zealand - Statement (18 Mar 2019) March 18, 2019
  Baroness Warsi: My Lords, I add my voice to the sentiments of all three Front-Benchers. Does my noble friend agree with the comments made by the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury, who described those who co-opt Christian language in their hate and speak about a Europe of Christendom against Muslims as “blasphemous”? Does she also agree that, […]
• Far-Right Violence and Online Extremism (18 Mar 2019) March 18, 2019
  Wes Streeting: ...as “bank robbers” and pillar boxes without any reaction. On a day when HOPE not hate has called for action from the Conservative party to tackle Islamophobia within its ranks, when Baroness Warsi has again asked her own party to act and when my constituents are looking to the Government to act, they will have no confidence in this Governmen […]
• Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill - Report (12 Mar 2019) March 12, 2019
  ...Strathclyde Baroness Stroud Baroness Sugg Lord Suri Lord Taylor of Holbeach (teller) Lord Trefgarne Viscount Trenchard Lord Trimble Lord True Lord Tugendhat Baroness Verma Lord Wakeham Baroness Warsi Lord Wasserman Lord Wei Duke of Wellington Baroness Wheatcroft Lord Whitby Baroness Wilcox Lord Willetts Baroness Williams of Trafford Baroness Wyld Lord You […]
• Jammu and Kashmir - Statement (27 Feb 2019) February 27, 2019
  Baroness Warsi: My Lords, I welcome the comments of the Foreign Secretary this morning asking for both sides to de-escalate. I would like to put two matters on record and ask my noble friend to comment on them. Are the Government familiar with the comments made by Prime Minister Imran Khan, with his clear and unequivocal condemnation of the attack in Pulwama […]