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HANSARDCall for General ElectionWill my hon. Friend give way?12 Jan 2026HANSARDHuman Rights Abuses: Magnitsky SanctionsI thank and congratulate the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) on securing this important debate. I seem to remember that he once referred…08 Jan 2026HANSARD Future of Thames WaterMy hon. Friend describes the tankering of sewage from his constituency. In 2023, those tanks arrived in my constituency and the sewage was stored in open tanks on a Thames Water…06 Jan 2026HANSARD VenezuelaThere is an old warning from Benjamin Franklin: “If you do not hang together, you will hang separately.” Given the events in Venezuela in recent days, and given the active threats…05 Jan 2026HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsWe welcome the Minister’s announcement. As a recovering academic—a distinction that I think I share with him—I have witnessed at first hand the impact of our exiting the Erasmus…17 Dec 2025HANSARDHousing Development: Cumulative ImpactsIn my constituency we have had a 113% increase in our housing targets. A seven-year land supply has now dropped to little over three and a half years, making us susceptible to the…17 Dec 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and ReconciliationThe introduction of a remedial order is welcome and necessary, even if its timing is potentially vexed. The order promises to finally end the policy of conditional immunity that…17 Dec 2025HANSARD Grassroots Cricket ClubsI thank the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Andrew Lewin) for securing this important debate, despite what may be happening down under at the moment. Grassroots cricket plays a…16 Dec 2025HANSARDAfrica: New ApproachThe Government are absolutely right to say that the United Kingdom needs a new relationship with Africa. Many Members in this House had hoped that that partnership would be…16 Dec 2025HANSARDChagossians: Trust Fund and ResettlementThe Liberal Democrats have been clear from the start: nothing should be happening to the Chagossian people without the full democratic input of Chagossians themselves, who, in the…16 Dec 2025HANSARDUK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to place a duty on the Secretary of State to enter into negotiations with the European Union to agree a customs union between…09 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDThe hon. Gentleman and I represent different political traditions, but I am glad to know that we are bound together by a shared sense of what a liberal society looks like. The…08 Dec 2025HANSARDEU RelationsOn “The News Agents” podcast yesterday evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, when asked about a UK-EU customs arrangement, said “that journey of travel…is self-evident”. Given that…04 Dec 2025HANSARD Northern Ireland: Legacy of the PastI thank the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for her report. It has been a pleasure to serve under her chairship on that Committee for the past year, and it is a…04 Dec 2025HANSARDWar in UkraineThe hon. Member mentioned the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Johanna Baxter). Recently, she was good enough to organise an extraordinary showing of a film called…04 Dec 2025HANSARDEU Relations16. What progress his Department has made on implementing the agreement made with the EU in May 2025.04 Dec 2025HANSARDWar in UkraineI thank the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) for securing this very important debate. There have been plaudits and praise enough for all the speeches…04 Dec 2025HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI have been contacted by many Surrey Heath constituents who often worked for very large American companies such as Atos. These companies are refusing to offer the pre-1997 uplift,…03 Dec 2025HANSARD Pension Schemes BillThe hon. Lady mentioned Atos. I have several constituents who worked for that company who find themselves in precisely the situation she describes. I thank her for the speech she…03 Dec 2025HANSARDUK-EU RelationsWith growing Chinese espionage, Russian aggression on the European continent and a capricious President in the United States, it is more important than ever that we deepen our…02 Dec 2025