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HANSARDAll-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 GroupsIt is on page 2.19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI am trying to be helpful to the House. The rules on APPGs are the prerogative of the Committee. That was already a decision of the House, but we did not want to proceed without…19 Jul 2023HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It would have been out of order for me to have asked a question during the statement, because I am afraid I was upstairs with some…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 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 GroupsIt does—and I have new hearing aids, so I am now quite precise about what I can hear and what I cannot hear in the Chamber. The serious point here is that we have been lobbied…19 Jul 2023HANSARDSanctionsIt is a joy to follow the hon. Member for Henley (John Howell). Since we have been in valedictory mood today, with the Secretary of State for Defence earlier, it is a sadness that…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 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ4. The Prime Minister has had responsibility for the UK economy now for 1,323 days, and he has delivered—he has delivered the largest national peacetime debt ever, the largest…28 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage and Rental CostsFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I do not want to comment on whether there is an appropriate sanction, because I am the Chair of the Committee on Standards, but…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineIf I am honest, Ministers have been a bit flip-floppy about this issue. The Foreign Secretary was remarkably snooty about it in the House only yesterday, when he said that I am…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineI am very grateful to the Minister. I am sorry, but what is the legal impediment, to his mind?27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineWill the Minister give way again?27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineI am grateful to the Minister for giving way again, but discussions between whom? If Government Ministers are party to those discussions, what is the concern that people still…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineThat prompts another thought in my little head. Quite a lot of people on social media have criticised the idea of doing any reconstruction of Ukraine now, saying that we should…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineOne sanctioned individuals who said, before he was sanctioned, that his assets could be given to the reconstruction of Ukraine was Roman Abramovich. The sale of Chelsea football…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineAs I understand it, the Minister is saying that the members of the foundation itself are rowing with each other about to how to proceed, but surely that would not prevent the…27 Jun 2023HANSARDUkraine: Military SupportI fully support the provision of all the munitions that we have been able to give to Ukraine. I hope we will be able to continue to do that for the foreseeable future, and…26 Jun 2023