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HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismFirst, I of course absolutely condemn violence—that is the only point I make on that. Secondly, it is hardly an attack on the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to read out a…24 Nov 2021HANSARDMedical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health ConditionsI used that parallel as an example. I totally respect my hon. Friend’s point about licensing progress—of course she is correct—but this is about thinking imaginatively to work our…04 Nov 2021HANSARDMedical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health ConditionsA few of us have constituents with a child with epilepsy and have invested the time to get a detailed understanding of many of the issues. The problem, as alluded to by my right…04 Nov 2021HANSARDMedical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health ConditionsMy right hon. Friend has alighted on a huge area of interest, which is pain control, not least end-of-life pain management. On the difference between opiate-based medicines, which…04 Nov 2021HANSARDMedical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health ConditionsI am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) and have worked with him actively in the past few years on this issue, and I wish we had made more progress.…04 Nov 2021HANSARDKurdish Political Representation and Equality in TurkeyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Angela, and to follow the comprehensive introduction to the all-party group’s report from its chair, the hon. Member for…02 Nov 2021HANSARDKurdish Political Representation and Equality in TurkeyI wanted to follow up on one question. The final recommendation of the Foreign Affairs Committee in its 2017 report The UK’s Relations with Turkey , paragraph 179, is that: “We…02 Nov 2021HANSARD Dame Carol Black’s Independent Review of Drugs ReportI want the Minister to take up the offer to work together made by the Opposition spokesman, the right hon. Member for Leicester South (Jonathan Ashworth), and to work with…27 Oct 2021HANSARDEngagementsQ4. Knowing my right hon. Friend’s commitment to UK bioscience, and his understanding of the exciting potential for improving mental health treatments for conditions such as…20 Oct 2021HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On Monday, in answer to my supplementary question during Home Office questions, I believe—I have obtained guidance on the law from a…20 Oct 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. [R] My right hon. Friend will be aware of the potential emerging treatment of the most difficult mental health conditions, including depression, trauma and addiction, if…19 Oct 2021HANSARDPsilocybin: Misuse of Drugs Regulations 20014. Whether her Department plans to take steps to reschedule psilocybin to schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. [R]18 Oct 2021HANSARDPsilocybin: Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001Does my right hon. Friend understand the emerging potential of the psychedelic class of drugs, with psilocybin to the fore, to treat depression, trauma and addiction? Some of this…18 Oct 2021HANSARDLGBTQ+ Afghan RefugeesI join the congratulations to the hon. Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing the debate. I follow an extremely moving account from the hon. Member for Ochil and South…21 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan PolicyI welcome the explicit recognition of the position of LGBT people in her statement, following the Prime Minister’s statement a week ago. The absence of LGBT people being an…13 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO UpdateI welcome the inclusion in the Prime Minister’s statement of sexuality as an identified risk for Afghans who need to be rescued. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary made a…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI congratulate the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) on securing the debate and on her brilliant timing in doing so on an evening where we can debate not only the…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisThe hon. Gentleman has landed on the core of the problem: the reputational issues that we are dealing with. We owe it to our constituents to do just a little better. We owe it to…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI was delighted to take that intervention from my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right: this is about science and technology. It is about finding a route to a Government who can…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI wholly agree with the hon. Lady, whose leadership of the all-party parliamentary group for access to medical cannabis under prescription, along with that of my right hon. Friend…06 Sept 2021