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HANSARDSecurity UpdateLike my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), I cannot wait to be able to discuss the merits of this case, although I understand…11 Sept 2023HANSARDDefence Command Paper RefreshI thank the Secretary of State for his impressive, no-nonsense leadership. It is always great to see a Minister who knows his brief so well. It has been 12 years since the Levene…18 Jul 2023HANSARDApproved Mileage Allowance Payment RateIt is a pleasure to listen to my hon. Friend, who is making incredibly important and sensible points. Does he share my hope that the Minister will listen very carefully to them?…03 Jul 2023HANSARD Hong Kong National Security Law AnniversaryI thank the hon. Lady for giving way. As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I know we are concerned to hear whether Ministers can be more vocal when speaking out for…28 Jun 2023HANSARDSituation in RussiaThe latest news, if it is to be believed, is that 8,000 Wagner mercenaries will be joining Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus, in a small town called Asipovichy where I understand some…26 Jun 2023HANSARD Local Radio: BBC ProposalsMy right hon. Friend is making a good point. One thing that grips me about this issue is that so many of our BBC radio reporters, such as those on BBC Radio Solent, which I want…22 Jun 2023HANSARD Local Radio: BBC ProposalsI fully support the motion and I call on the BBC to reconsider this incredibly poor decision to cut news output locally. I wrote a letter to BBC bigwigs about the plight of BBC…22 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonMr Deputy Speaker, I will wind up if you think I am speaking out of turn or too widely. However, I was going to say that our mental health crisis is a scandal worth reporting. The…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonIt is a debate worthy of parliamentary time, but when I held a debate on the use of Imperial modelling, not a single Labour Member turned up apart from the shadow Minister. The…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonSo when Ministers were sexing up documents about weapons of mass destruction, they believed those claims to be true.19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonFor me, if it is cake versus the lives of 179 soldiers, it is pretty easy to say which I think is more important, but that does not excuse misleading the House. I will briefly run…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonFirst, I accept the Privileges Committee report, and I thank the Chair of that Committee and everyone who worked on it. Trust and integrity are important in politics. People think…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonThe right hon. Gentleman is making a good speech. Boris had a complicated relationship with the truth—I am not denying that. The right hon. Gentleman has been in this House for a…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonI want to make a brief point. I am voting in support of the motion and I did not vote in support of Owen Paterson, but I remind the hon. Member that we got rid of Boris Johnson a…19 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Apsana Begum), and I think that some of the things she said will be echoed on the Government Benches. I want…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]I agree completely and I thank my right hon. Friend for that point. I would not even like that dependency on our allies. Would I like that level of dependency on the United…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]If I remember correctly, in January, the security services took apart a UK Government vehicle because data was being transferred via a Chinese cellular module, a Chinese eSIM. We…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]I thank the Minister for the work he has been doing on the Bill, and for listening to colleagues—there is more work to be done, but we are certainly moving in the right direction.…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]I have a genuine question for my hon. Friend, who is making a brilliant speech, and for the Minister. Given Hikvision’s frankly repugnant role in the ethnically based oppression…13 Jun 2023HANSARDPhonics Teaching: Isle of WightI thank Ministers, first for the new special educational needs school for the Island—it is much appreciated—and secondly for agreeing to a phonics conference in June. The recent…12 Jun 2023