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HANSARDSexual Violence in Conflict: EthiopiaWhat steps he has taken to deploy personnel from the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative UK team of experts to Ethiopia.20 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateI thank the Government for being courteous in having the Prime Minister present and the Chancellor respond to this debate. They have been courteous in holding a vote at long last,…13 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateI thank the Leader of the Opposition for allowing me to intervene. Perhaps he can help in ascertaining when those targets would have been met in the past 20 years.13 Jul 2021HANSARDFisheries ManagementWill the hon. Member give way?13 Jul 2021HANSARDFisheries ManagementI think the hon. Gentleman has overlooked the National Coastwatch Institution, which is made up of thousands of volunteers, has extraordinary stations and does so much of the good…13 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateMy hon. and gallant Friend is making an impressive speech. He talks about global Britain; the point of global Britain is diplomacy, trade, aid and defence. Those four things are…13 Jul 2021HANSARDFisheries ManagementIt is a pleasure to be able to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. Let me start by congratulating the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael); we have a…13 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateI am sorry to interrupt my right hon. Friend, but does it say something when every economic and political commentator has said that this new mechanism will not see the 0.7% return…13 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but the last line of clause 2(1) reads “as if the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 had never been enacted.” The emphasis of those…06 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI am sorry that I was not there to see the 1974 election. We talk a lot in this place about the precedent and the history of what has gone on before us, but actually there are not…06 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI am sorry to interrupt the hon. Lady, but that argument is somewhat of a straw house of an argument, because that could still be used at the end of a five-year parliamentary term…06 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillThis is more of a clarification point. If the Lascelles principles are in place and the Government were to call a general election but an alternative grouping could come together…06 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for being so patient with me on this, but on reading the Bill, I do not see where it will be rescinding or taking away the Lascelles principles.06 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillIt is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Aaron Bell). May I start, as so many colleagues have done, by welcoming the Minister for the…06 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI am sorry to inform the hon. Gentleman that I still was not born in 1983. If we do not know when an election is coming—I think this goes to the point made by the hon. Member for…06 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI was worried that my hon. Friend was going to tell me that I was wrong, but that was a delightful intervention and one I entirely agree with. I thank her for that point, because…06 Jul 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilI hope my right hon. Friend will forgive me for interrupting her, but she is making such an excellent point, and exactly the same argument can be made on tackling gender-based…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilI totally agree. The point I am trying to make is that although we should use aid to support the Commonwealth and to enhance our ties, allowing them to see it directed as…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilI should like to begin by saying that although I may disagree with my hon. Friends the Members for Rother Valley (Alexander Stafford) and for Dudley North (Marco Longhi), it is…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilI thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to interrupt him, because he makes an excellent point about how our having that relationship with countries promotes Britain. But it is also…30 Jun 2021