Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Conform or perish Only last year, after initially denying that the sexual orientation regulations would have any adverse effect on the businesses of people who had a moral or religious objection to homosexual practice, the then Equalities Minister, Meg Munn, finally admitted that the regulations could have a major impact. In a letter to the Family [...]
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
From yesterday's Hansard : Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many residences of foreign diplomats there are in (a) Castle Point and (b) Essex. Meg Munn: According to our records, there are no foreign diplomats currently living in Castle Point and 21 foreign diplomats currently living in Essex. Having spent my formulative years in the Far East (1) I am...
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Or so she thinks. Meg Munn, who represents a part of the Caribbean called Sheffield Heeley was asked the following : " To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has agreed to the request of the Chief Minister of Montserrat for the island’s accession to the Caribbean community single market and economy ". Montserrat is a colony 'British overseas territory' in the...
Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Next week Meg Munn, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office will be answering your questions about Burma. Please post your comments and questions below Meg writes - As you will no doubt be aware Burma recently suffered the...
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
George Galloway has won an adjournment debate with Meg Munn, the minister for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, TODAY at 7pm on the floor of the House of Commons. The subject will be the situation in Somalia. There is a humanitarian disaster in Somalia with widespread starvation and neighbouring Ethiopia is facing similar devastation. [...]
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
With all respect to my friend Iain McNichol who is their National Political Officer, I thought the GMB's decision today to withdraw funding from, as they seem to have put it, six Labour MPs, was churlish and misguided. The six MPs are Meg Munn, junior minister at the Foreign Office and MP for Sheffield Heeley, Stephen Ladywood, MP for Thanet South and vice-chairman of the Labour party, and four parliamentary...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Manila - The Philippines and Britain are looking into the possibility of forging an extradition treaty to target sex offenders, a British official said Friday. Meg Munn, Britain's Foreign Office Minister for South-East Asia and the Pacific, said she ...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
On 25 March the Foreign Office Minister Meg Munn MP, in response to a question in the House of Commons, said: 'We are concerned about the lack of progress [in Burma] and, indeed, in some respects, mat...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
Speaking on Tuesday in the British Parliament during a debate on foreign policy, Foreign Office Minister Meg Munn stated: “We are concerned about the lack of progress (in Burma) and, indeed, in ...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008
I had an out-of-body experience at the Foreign office during a briefing by the British ambassador to Burma, Mark Canning, and the Minister for South Asia, Meg Munn, on what's been happening on the streets of Rangoon since the "Saffron...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 26/11/2007
The other week I found it mildly amusing that the Foreign Office Minister, Meg Munn, had told Parliament that the FCO didn't know how many people in its department spoke Welsh, and didn't record such things. What amused me most was that other departments seemed to know the answer, and that the FCO seemed like the sort of place where you would ask, as a matter of course, what languages people
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 15/11/2007
In the interview with BBC Burmese service, British FCO minister Meg Munn said she wished Mr Gambari to open his office within Burma. The foreign Secretary, David Miliband also commented on last night...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
This question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office made me snigger.Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Welsh speakers his Department employs. Meg Munn: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office recruits its UK-based staff from all parts of the UK. Our records do not show whether staff are able to speak Welsh.Mainly because I read it after I had
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/10/2007
The government has 'much more to do' to protect women from the 'appalling human rights abuse' of forced marriages, Meg Munn, the junior foreign minister, said today.
