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HANSARDEngagementsAs I have explained to the House already several times, the EU has a border-free Schengen zone, and it is not appropriate for it to have checks of any kind. We have a different…02 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, and that is why we have begun with him and also with Sergey Lavrov, but there is no limit to what we can do on his regime, and we will continue to do that. Can I just echo…02 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think the whole House will want to echo my condolences to Dylan’s friends and family. My hon. Friend raises a very important and emotive issue. At the moment, defibrillators are…02 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady for her very far-sighted question. That is exactly what we should be doing. We are moving to much more energy resilience and self-reliance. It was a shame…02 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is not appropriate for me to comment on individual cases at this stage, but I stand by what I said in the House and what we put on the record. Be in no doubt that the actions…02 Mar 2022HANSARD UkraineYes.24 Feb 2022HANSARDMachinery of Government: UK-EU RelationshipResponsibility for the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union, including oversight of the implementation of the trade and co-operation agreement and the withdrawal…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineThe hon. Gentleman makes a series of extremely important observations. Yes, it is vital that we get the message across to the whole of Russia about what is really going on. They…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineEloquently put, and my right hon. Friend is dead right. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Henley (John Howell), who is on the Council of Europe, made that point the other day,…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineThe hon. Gentleman is so right, and I know that is what the House thinks. We admire the Russian people. Our links to the Russian people go back to the time when we stood shoulder…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkrainePerhaps the most important thing that we can do for the Ukrainian community in this country is thank them and recognise everything that they have done for us in the past decades.…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is right to point to that risk. It is foresighted of him. We are investing massively in cyber-protection—I think we are putting in another £2.6 billion. In the past…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineWe will make sure that we support Ukrainian nationals who need to come to this country to meet their relatives—of course we will do that.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineThere are all sorts of reasons for the failure of the west to take sufficient account of the threat of Vladimir Putin since 2014, but the two biggest are oil and gas.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineIt is clear that President Putin sets no stall by international law whatever and that is just one of the legal obligations that he has torn up.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineAs I said in an answer a couple of days ago, we have no evidence of disruption of UK elections or electoral events as a result of Russian activity, but the online harms Bill is…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineAll political donations are properly registered and monitored. I can tell the hon. Lady that we are putting forward progressively over the last few days and weeks and today the…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is a threat to communications already. We are observing it in the contacts we are having with people in Ukraine. Satellite phones are…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI thank the hon. Lady very much for her support and her resolve. I want to assure her that we are of course working with our international friends to prepare for a humanitarian…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI think the whole House and everybody in the world would want President Putin to have chosen the path of negotiation. He had that moment. That is why, if the hon. Gentleman…24 Feb 2022