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Mr John HOWELL (United Kingdom, EC/DA)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Treasurer: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance since 27/01/2020
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 05/10/2019 to 26/01/2020
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group from 22/01/2018 to 04/10/2019
  • Member: European Conservatives Group from 27/11/2015 to 21/01/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 27/11/2015 Representative - United Kingdom

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (since 25/01/2021)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (since 25/01/2021)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 25/01/2021)
  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 24/06/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/11/2017 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 25/01/2016 to 23/11/2017)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 27/11/2015 to 24/01/2016)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on Türkiye): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 06/12/2017 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 25/01/2016 to 23/11/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Jerome MAYHEW (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Dame Cheryl GILLAN (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 24/11/2017 to 04/04/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Tommy SHEPPARD (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 28/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Kerry MCCARTHY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 26/01/2017 to 23/11/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Paula SHERRIFF (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 13/10/2016 to 22/01/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Phil WILSON (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 14/12/2017 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Sir Roger GALE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 25/01/2016 to 12/10/2016)

Interventions

Last speeches

21/06/2023 | 16:46:47 Thank you very much. The Committee is in favour of this Amendment? Yes? Thank you. I will now put the oral sub-Amendment to the vote. The vote is now open. The vote is now closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The oral sub-Amendment is agreed to. We will now consider the main Amendment as sub-amended. Does anyone wish to speak against the Amendment as sub-amendment. I don't see anybody. What is the opinion of the Committee? Thank you very much. I shall now put the Amendment 1 to the... 20/06/2023 | 16:28:47 Thank you very much. Let me start by congratulating the rapporteur on a very good report on this area. Let me congratulate too Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA for what she has said. I fully support those who are seeking a democratic return for Belarus. I too am one of those UK parliamentarians who have adopted a Belarusian political prisoner; we communicate with them to hopefully make them feel better. If you look at the challenges from the point of view of our own three pillars, as far as... 19/06/2023 | 15:31:02 Thank you very much. I would like to congratulate Mr Frank SCHWABE, not just for his leadership of the team, but also he may not have thought his three minutes was long enough, but he managed to get into that three minutes everything that I wanted to say. So I shall be repeating a lot of what he said. But I think one of the things that he stressed which is very, very, important is the presence of rapporteurs on the pre-election mission. It is really important that we do have people who know... 28/04/2023 | 11:55:05 Thank you very much, Mister President. I have to say that, and I confess this, that I feel very old in participating in this debate. I also feel a very strange to this subject, because I do not use any social media. I have given up the use of social media, because of the aggression and of the hatred that was shown on it to me and to my colleagues. I admit fully that there is a crucial role that we have to play in designing the rules that apply to social media, particularly for young people... 26/04/2023 | 17:29:28 Thank you very much indeed. I, too, would like to thank the rapporteur for producing an interesting report. I want to address the situation in Türkiye and Syria. Before I do so, let me offer my condolences for the loss of life that occurred with the earthquakes there. My colleague Ms Kate OSAMOR has just commented on the experiment that the UK government had at the weekend for an emergency signal that occurred via phones. It did not actually work on mine, but you know that is part of an...

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