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Enslavement of Black Africans (Libya)

e-petition debate on Monday, 18 December 2017, in the House of Commons, led by Paul Scully. The answering members were Alistair Burt and Fabian Hamilton.
Motion that this House has considered e-petition 205476 relating to the enslavement of black Africans in Libya. Agreed to on question. Sitting adjourned without Question put.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
633 cc261-284WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
E-petition 205476 relating to the enslavement of black Africans in Libya
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Research briefings
Proceeding contributions
Paul Scully | 633 cc261-2WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petition 205476 relating to the enslavement...

John Howell | 633 c262WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. He mentioned Nigeria; when I visited it as the Prim...


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Paul Scully | 633 c262WH (Link to this contribution)

I understand my hon. Friend’s expertise and knowledge of the area and totally agree with him. The...

Royston Smith | 633 c262WH (Link to this contribution)

On the power vacuum in Libya, the UK Government continue to support the Government of national ac...

Paul Scully | 633 cc262-5WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the intervention. I will be interested to hear from the Minister on we can do t...

Royston Smith | 633 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

Slavery these days is completely different from the way people would have imagined it some years ...

Paul Scully | 633 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely agree, because it is a matter of pull factors, and stopping people having to make th...

John Howell | 633 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

I want to pick up on the previous intervention. I think that there is a huge role for British com...

Paul Scully | 633 cc265-6WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a typically insightful point, and it is right to use some of our big compani...

Lyn Brown | 633 cc266-7WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. As we heard in the extremely powerf...

Paul Scully | 633 c267WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady rightly raises social media. However, does she agree that social media has also pla...

Lyn Brown | 633 cc267-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I am sure the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: social media can play a very useful role in our...

Eleanor Smith | 633 c268WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. I want to thank the hon. Member for...

Afzal Khan | 633 c268WH (Link to this contribution)

I have been listening to the debate, and I thank the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scull...

Eleanor Smith | 633 c268WH (Link to this contribution)

I totally agree. That was not in my speech, so I am glad he added it.

Although the Prime Mi...

John Howell | 633 cc268-270WH (Link to this contribution)

The number of refugees in the world is colossal; I think it is in the region of 60 million people...

Marsha De Cordova | 633 cc270-1WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. I pay tribute to every single indiv...

Chris Law | 633 cc271-3WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. I begin by thanking those who initi...

Fabian Hamilton | 633 cc273-4WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure, as always, to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker.

I would like to s...

Fabian Hamilton | 633 c274WH (Link to this contribution)

Just Nigeria; okay, sorry. The hon. Gentleman asked why people would leave their homes and trust ...

John Howell | 633 c274WH (Link to this contribution)

I did make it clear in my speech that we need to get rid of slavery both for the sake of Africans...

Fabian Hamilton | 633 cc274-6WH (Link to this contribution)

I entirely accept that. I do not think that any hon. Member in this room or in this House would c...

Alistair Burt | 633 cc276-7WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. I thank all colleagues who have tak...

Chris Law | 633 c277WH (Link to this contribution)

I want to touch on that important point. We learned some painful lessons around Iraq. In terms of...

Alistair Burt | 633 cc277-9WH (Link to this contribution)

During the conflict, nobody quite knew how it would end, because the circumstances were happening...

Lyn Brown | 633 c278WH (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister’s flow, because what he is saying is really helpful, but two...

Alistair Burt | 633 cc280-3WH (Link to this contribution)

The answer to the hon. Lady’s second question is that I do not know. I pick up on what she says a...

Paul Scully | 633 cc283-4WH (Link to this contribution)

Thank you very much, Mr Walker, for calling me to wind up the debate, and I also thank the Minist...

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