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HANSARDNational Food Strategy: Government ResponseWhen people think of great British cheese, they think of Stilton, which was invented in my constituency. In the national food strategy, there are concerns that we will be forced…28 Oct 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanThere is no doubt as to the frustration and the heartache of the Defence Secretary about this situation. In the correspondence we are having with those still on the ground,…21 Sept 2021HANSARDAUKUSThis par is enormously welcome because it makes us safer in an area of the world where there are particular challenges to our ability to trade, secure our interests and protect…16 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO Responses to MembersI worked in the Foreign Office crisis centre and I cannot imagine what our diplomats have been through. I am so grateful that many hundreds of those whose cases I took up…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareDuring the pandemic, the Government stepped in to save lives and jobs. In Rutland and Melton, 47% of jobs would have been lost without those efforts. Does the Prime Minister agree…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillThe hon. Gentleman says that voter fraud is not an issue, yet in my constituency during a by-election less than a month ago, over 30 pre-filled-in voting ballots were found dumped…07 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO UpdateThe Taliban want cash, international recognition and propaganda coups. I am gravely concerned by the international direction of travel towards recognising them, so will my right…06 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanIt has been said that there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades pass. What we are seeing in Afghanistan this week is decades, and they will shape the rest of…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanYou raise how many times the Prime Minister has spoken on Afghanistan in the Chamber—[Hon. Members: “You!”] Sorry: the shadow Foreign Secretary mentions the number of times the…18 Aug 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe situation in Tigray is truly horrifying, and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia sparked fears of further mass atrocities by saying that the “weeds” of Tigray will be crushed. What…20 Jul 2021HANSARDPlaces for Growth: DEFRA Office (Melton)Thank you, Mr Speaker. Nowhere in the country could offer a better home to DEFRA than Melton Mowbray. I could finish my speech there, but I suspect the Minister would like me to…19 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateI am enormously proud of our record of supporting the most vulnerable and using aid to make our people and those around the world safer, but we have suffered the biggest recession…13 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseFirst, what assessment has my right hon. Friend made of whether football is finally coming home? Secondly, does he agree that levelling up and the cities for growth agenda must…08 Jul 2021HANSARDCivil Service Jobs Outside LondonWhat assessment he has made of the east midlands and Leicestershire as a potential location to help deliver the Places for Growth programme.27 May 2021HANSARDCivil Service Jobs Outside LondonThis Government’s levelling-up agenda will transform our nation, but does my right hon. Friend agree that we cannot deliver this agenda unless we level up both cities and rural…27 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsFor almost 500 years the Royal Navy has protected our country from foes and protected the freedom of our friends around the world. The pride of our navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth,…26 May 2021HANSARDGlobal Anti-Corruption SanctionsI welcome these important extensions to the sanctions regime and the sanctions announced today. They are a fitting tribute to Sergei Magnitsky and the work of Bill Browder, but…26 Apr 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMerci à vous, Monsieur Speaker. I am sure my right hon. Friend would agree with me that we have all spent far too much time away from the Palace this year, so will he please…18 Mar 2021HANSARD LGBT Conversion TherapyWhen I was elected, I said that I would be a voice for those whom others seek to silence, and I stand here today to do exactly that. The need for this ban is quite simple: victims…08 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19Aldous Huxley wrote that the 20th century plague was not the black death, but rather the grey life. He could have been describing life under covid-19. When I was elected a year…12 Jan 2021