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HANSARD Asylum Seekers: Removal to RwandaHow can the Minister say Rwanda is a safe country when 12 refugees protesting about cuts to food rations were shot dead by security forces in 2018? It is not lawyers, but courts…13 Jun 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: ProsecutionsMay I add my welcome to our friends from Ukraine? In January, the Attorney General told the House: “This Government take tackling domestic abuse and hate crime extremely…26 May 2022HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Forced ConfessionIn 2017, the Prime Minister said that Nazanin was teaching people journalism in Iran. She now says that she lived in the shadow of his words for the rest of her time in prison. He…24 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsGiven the constitutional importance of his role, is the Lord Chancellor considering his position in the Cabinet in the light of the Foreign Affairs Committee report on the…24 May 2022HANSARDReducing ReoffendingApproved premises house the highest risk offenders—terrorists and serious sex offenders—on release from custody. Their location is sensitive both for rehabilitation and protection…24 May 2022HANSARDShireen Abu AqlaAnswer the question!16 May 2022HANSARDShireen Abu AqlaAnother journalist is murdered in occupied Palestine. Next, the occupying power raids her family home, and then its forces brutally attack pallbearers and mourners at Shireen’s…16 May 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillI thank those who have worked to improve this Bill during its progress through both Houses. Without embarrassing him, I would single out my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton…26 Apr 2022HANSARD Flood Risk: LondonIt would be useful if we could have the details of the task and finish group and have communications with it. Yes, work is going on, as the hon. Member for Kensington (Felicity…20 Apr 2022HANSARD Flood Risk: LondonI congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate. She is pursuing this issue on behalf of her constituents, as I am on behalf of mine, and she has hit the nail on the head by…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEaster AdjournmentMy hon. Friend is making an extremely powerful speech. Does she agree that at the root of all the problems she has mentioned—the extraordinary levels of overcrowding we are…31 Mar 2022HANSARDEaster AdjournmentIt is the nature of our job as MPs that we deal with some shocking events and grave injustices. Perhaps that makes us a bit case-hardened, but something happened in my…31 Mar 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseFor more than 100 years, Shepherd’s Bush market has served the people of west London and beyond. For most of that time, the Horada family have been one of its leading traders.…31 Mar 2022HANSARD Homes for Ukraine SchemeI am really proud of how my constituents, council and local refugee groups, such as West London Welcome and Refugee Action, are working together to welcome Ukrainian refugees. We…31 Mar 2022HANSARD Ukraine Refugee VisasMany emails I have received have a common theme. I will just quote a couple: “I have had to write…no fewer than five different applications in order to be able to comply with the…31 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongI entirely respect the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s opinion and his record as Lord Chancellor, but the issue could have been handled a little better. There were signals in…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees. You must be finding this an interesting debate; it is veering in slightly different directions from the form that…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongThat is clear from the Minister’s statement. What is the Government’s message to retired judges and practitioners who continue to work in the Hong Kong courts?30 Mar 2022HANSARDRussiaThe Levelling Up Secretary has been boasting for weeks that the Government will seize oligarchs’ mansions, but they have no idea how to do so legally, and by the time they work it…24 Mar 2022HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. At 7.30 am today, without a court order, the chief executive officer of developer Fruition Properties, Mr Mani Khiroya, seized possession…23 Mar 2022