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HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsThe thing is that I have a problem, too. We have been working on this and consulting the House repeatedly for three years now. We have been repeatedly told by Members that we have…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI am very happy to give way to the hon. Member.19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI think that was a speech. Perhaps the hon. Member will be able to catch your eye later, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am conscious that I have spoken for quite a long time and I had…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI will give way to the hon. Lady, and then I will not give way anymore, because I am keen to leave the stage.19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsThe right hon. Gentleman makes a very fair point, which I fully take on board. However, ever since APPGs were first created, the House has repeatedly wanted to ensure a clear…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI will come on to the Panel of Chairs a little later. I rather enjoyed that point of order, because I think the hon. Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) is complaining…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsNo, they are not automatically a member of all APPGs, otherwise every APPG would have 1,450 members. The hon. Gentleman needs to read the rules and the guide to the rules, both of…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsIt was agreed yesterday at the Standards Committee. We only knew today that this debate was going to be happening today; we thought it was going to be later in the year. It is…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsNo, I do not buy that, I am afraid, because what we are trying to say is there are officers and there are registered members. All the registered members should express an interest…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsHaving said that, I now feel that I have been discourteous and I am going to give way to the hon. Gentleman.19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsThe rules specify that anybody who is not a member of the Government can be a member and an officer of an all-party group. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I remember the…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsIt might be best if the hon. Gentleman waits until I make my speech, because I will lay it all out very clearly. It is printed in the documents, but groups will have to have had…19 Jul 2023HANSARDSanctionsWill the Minister allow me to intervene before she sits down?19 Jul 2023HANSARDSanctionsI would just like to put on the record how much we respect and admire the team of roughly 150 people who work in the sanctions group. It is not easy work—it is tough to get it…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsTen.19 Jul 2023HANSARDSanctionsThe Minister is addressing a point that the Law Society has made to quite a few of us, and I guess quite a few of us will be referring to it later in the debate. If this had been…19 Jul 2023HANSARDSanctionsI have great admiration for lawyers, especially those who advise me, as is occasionally necessary— [ Laughter. ] It is a serious point: if the UK stands for anything in the world,…19 Jul 2023HANSARDSanctionsNow look what I have done.19 Jul 2023HANSARDSanctionsLong may he persist. I support the measure before us today. The Minister knows that I and other Members have campaigned for as robust a set of sanctions as possible. I have been…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI have taken my hearing aid out, but I did hear what the Father of the House said.19 Jul 2023