Tag: Sir Lindsay Hoyle

• Friday, September 13th 2024 - 08:05 UTC

  Falklands lawmakers in round of political contacts in UK

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLAs Leona Roberts and Mark Pollard who will be doing the round of United Kingdom political parties conferences, have also taken the opportunity to intensify strong bonds with political contacts in London.

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• Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Speaker of UK House of Commons on five-day visit to St. Elena

  

  The Speaker of the House of Commons Sir c MP, arrived at St Helena to begin his five-day visit to the island. This is the first ever visit by a Speaker of the House of Commons to the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, in the south Atlantic.

• Saturday, October 7th 2023 - 06:36 UTC

  Sir Lindsay Hoyle: “Why I became a champion and advocate for the British Overseas Territories”

  

  By Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the UK House of Commons
  
  From the Pitcairn Islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean to the British Indian Ocean Territory almost 10,000 miles away, the British Overseas Territories (OTs) all have one thing in common – they are British.

• Friday, April 7th 2023 - 19:50 UTC

  Falklands attends Overseas Territories Speakers' Conference

  

  The 2nd Commons and Overseas Territories Speakers’ Conference (COTSC) has been held at the Anguilla House of Assembly from 3 to 5 April 2023 on the theme of ‘Deepening Parliamentary Democracy in the British Overseas Territories - A Roadmap to 2030’. Falklands was represented by Keith Biles, Speaker for the Legislative Assembly.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands and BOTs delegates invited to the Constituency Garden of Remembrance

  

  The Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle installed on Monday the opening of the Constituency Garden of Remembrance at the New Palace Yard in Parliament grounds and invited representatives from the Overseas Territories to participate.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Falklands governor and Legislative Assembly representative MLA Roger Spink meet House of Commons Speaker

  

  Over the weekend and ahead of the state funeral on Monday 19th September, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle met with representatives from British Overseas Territories, attending ceremonies in London.

• Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Falklands Day celebrated in Parliament with Islands' flag flying at New Palace Yard

  

  Following on instructions from the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the flag of the Falkland Islands in flying at New Palace Yard, to mark Falklands Day, when the first sighting of the Islands in 1592.