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HANSARDUkraine: Diplomatic EffortsI strongly agree again with the right hon. Gentleman. We will make sure that we have the wherewithal to have a very severe package of sanctions in the case of any Russian…25 Jan 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: Dispute ResolutionI completely agree with my hon. Friend on the urgency of this situation, which is why we have been holding intensive talks with the EU to resolve the very real issues there are…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraine: Diplomatic EffortsI met the Prime Minister last night to discuss this very serious issue. He had a call with President Biden, President Macron and Chancellor Scholz to continue to co-ordinate our…25 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsTogether with our allies, we are standing up to Russian aggression. We will not tolerate their campaign of hybrid warfare aiming to destabilise democracies across eastern Europe.…25 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are five months away from Safe To Be Me, the UK’s first ever global LGBT rights conference. Everybody should be free to be themselves, but that is not true in too many parts of…12 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about Sarah Gilbert’s achievements. She was part of our Gender Equality Advisory Council, working across the G7 to give women more opportunities…12 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Where one lives often has a bigger impact on outcomes than anything else. For example, the wage gap between London and the north-west is, on…12 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need all the talent in Britain on the pitch, which is why it is so important we get more people into STEM, particularly girls and women.12 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaWe have very strong cyber-security forces here in the UK, and we are doing all we can to tackle Russian disinformation, including working with allies and partners. We have…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaMy hon. Friend is right. We have to defend the hard-won freedoms in the Balkans, in Ukraine and in the Baltic states. She is also right to point out that the issue here is not the…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaThe 1994 Budapest memorandum is very clear. It was done on the basis of Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons and ensuring that it maintained its territorial integrity and…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaI thank my hon. Friend for his service in the Balkans. He is so right that that peace and security was very hard earned, and we are determined not to allow it to slide away from…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaI welcomed the Baltic states to the UK last autumn and I was very clear about the UK’s complete support for them and our complete commitment to our article 5 obligations. That is…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaI have had regular conversations with my counterparts, such as Tony Blinken in the United States. I have talked to many of our NATO allies directly and to all of them at the NATO…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaI do not agree with my right hon. Friend. The UK remains supportive of Ukraine’s NATO membership aspirations, in line with the 2008 Bucharest summit declaration. As I have already…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaOn the subject of the violent clashes in Kazakhstan, as I have said, we condemn those acts of violence, but I think it important to remember that Kazakhstan has a sovereign choice…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaI agree with my hon. Friend: we do need to step up our efforts as the free world. In fact, in a speech I made before Christmas I said that there had not been enough action, and…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaAs I have said, the Defence Secretary visited Ukraine in the autumn. We are providing all the support we can to Ukraine in terms of both economic resilience and security—namely,…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaMy right hon. Friend is completely right about the pretext. That is exactly what is happening. Disinformation is being used and pretexts are being claimed that simply do not…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaI certainly agree with my hon. Friend. It is important that the Council of Europe takes a strong stand on this issue.06 Jan 2022