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HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield (Dave Robertson) for introducing this debate on…10 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsThe hon. Lady makes an important point. Let me give her an absolute assurance that we take these matters incredibly seriously. That is why, through the defending democracy…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI am grateful to the shadow Home Secretary for his points and questions. Let me again, for the avoidance of doubt, be absolutely clear about the Government’s position. The safety…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question on what I agree is a very serious matter. Security is the first duty of Government. As such, we are deeply concerned by the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that important point. I can reiterate what I have said specifically in this case, which is that we sought and received assurances from…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsThis provides us with a very good opportunity to pay tribute as a House—I hope collectively—to the extraordinary work of our operational partners and the security services. By the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI know the right hon. Gentleman speaks with long experience on these matters. The Government are crystal clear that the activity that he has just described is not acceptable. We…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI do not want to get too far ahead of myself, as I will be making a statement shortly. I can say that we are working at pace to implement the FIR scheme. This is an important tool…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question and for his representation of his constituents. Yes, I can give him that assurance. Hopefully, my comments today convey the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsMy hon. Friend is an assiduous constituency MP. He has raised the plight of his constituent previously in this House, and I am grateful to him for doing so. On his first point,…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI am grateful, as I always am, to the hon. Member. He has a long-standing track record of standing up for repressed minorities wherever they might be. Clearly, that is…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsMy hon. Friend’s question has been asked by others. I assure him that national security is the overriding priority for this and, I hope, any Government. We look incredibly…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI understand the concerns that the hon. Member has raised. He will understand that I have already referred to the letter that was written back in January. If new evidence comes to…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his work through the APPG and his long-standing interest in this particular matter, and for his practical question. BNO status holders and…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI understand why the hon. Gentleman raises these concerns in the way that he does. I hope that he will be reassured that the UK Government, especially the Foreign Secretary and…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsI completely understand my hon. Friend’s point about the fear felt, and the chilling effect that I am certain there will be in a number of communities. He has asked me for…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHong Kong Democracy ActivistsThe right hon. Gentleman will know from his time in government that, in the first instance, these matters will relate to the ambassador in the Foreign, Commonwealth and…04 Mar 2025HANSARDIranian State ThreatsWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on the growing threat to the UK from Iran, and the steps that the Government are taking to combat this threat.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDIranian State Threatsindicated dissent .04 Mar 2025HANSARDIranian State ThreatsI am grateful to the shadow Home Secretary for the points he has raised, which I will endeavour to work through. First, let me agree with his characterisation of the Iranian…04 Mar 2025