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HANSARD Middle East UpdateI have been in the Minister’s shoes and I sympathise with him as he grapples with an extremely complicated and fraught situation, but does he agree that there cannot be any…06 May 2025HANSARD Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan: 80th AnniversaryI am enjoying the Minister’s contribution. Does she agree that the reason we observe 80th anniversaries is that they can be veteran-led? Sadly, that will not be the case in 2039.…06 May 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceWhen the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow, electrons do not flow, and that happens drearily predictably in northern Europe, particularly in the cold, dark winter…30 Apr 2025HANSARDUK Airstrike: Houthi Military FacilityI draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and congratulate all involved on a very successful joint operation. Matters like this are likely to…30 Apr 2025HANSARDPalestinian Authority Prime Minister VisitThe Foreign Secretary rightly said in his statement yesterday that Hamas have no future in any of the possible ways forward for Palestine and for Gaza. That is a statement of the…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillThe Minister said that powers exist, but, plainly, they are not working, because we know that “sickfluencers” are doing their deeds and people are responding to them, particularly…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillThe Minister is presumably keen to determine how much money is lost to fraud in Scotland, and I imagine he will require the Scottish Government to report back to the UK Government…29 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhen will the Government decide whether to support the UK-Morocco power project?29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationThank you. Contributions are always more powerful when they are rooted in personal experience, as we have heard today. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Recycling of TyresTessa Munt will move the motion and then the Minister will respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Irish Republican Alleged IncitementDoes the Minister agree that there is no context at all in which it would be acceptable to utter the remarks attributed to this group? Does he hope, as I do, that the criminal…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Headingley IncidentDoes the Minister share my surprise at just how easy it is to get hold of one of these weapons? A few clicks will buy someone a Guillotine X+ compound crossbow for £324.91 plus…28 Apr 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords]Before the Secretary of State goes any further in her speech, will she take the opportunity to pay tribute to Dame Tracey Crouch, whose work in government laid the foundations for…28 Apr 2025HANSARD British SteelFurther to the answer that the Minister gave to my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis), will she at least concede that it would be opportune to…22 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham: Waste CollectionThe Minister failed to answer the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) on whether troops should be used to clear up the mess. Will he…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Ukraine Update“Reassurance force” sounds like a euphemism for escalation that would expose our boys and girls to very significant risk, yet on 3 March the Prime Minister said to me, from the…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK ParliamentariansLike many colleagues, I have visited Israel, the west bank and Gaza, facilitated by the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority. I benefited greatly from those visits,…07 Apr 2025HANSARDScunthorpe SteelworksDoes the Minister agree that we appear to have hammered out a cross-party consensus on the need to ensure that this country is able to continue to produce virgin steel, just like…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar Generationrose —02 Apr 2025HANSARDBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryThe United States is busy increasing its presence on Diego Garcia, most recently with its B-2 Spirit aircraft, probably facing towards Iran. Given that, how much will the Trump…02 Apr 2025