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HANSARDNorthern GazaMay I begin by paying tribute to the bravery of the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) in continuing to fight for the population in Gaza, even as her own…07 Jan 2025HANSARDMaternity LeaveThank you very much, Mr Speaker. Doctors throughout the NHS, no matter who employs them, have blanket maternity agreements, but nurses do not. When I visited the River Place…07 Jan 2025HANSARD LGBT Veterans: Etherton ReviewI have a constituent who was not a member of the armed forces, but a member of the secret service. He lost his job in the 1980s because he was gay. There is no compensation for…12 Dec 2024HANSARD SyriaAcross the House we all celebrate the end of this terrible regime, but the very last thing that the Syrian people want, as my right hon. Friend said, is for one tyrant to be…09 Dec 2024HANSARDDetained British Nationals AbroadDoes the right hon. Gentleman agree that it does not matter whether someone is a dual national or not? If they are British, they are British and they are proud to be British. We…05 Dec 2024HANSARDDetained British Nationals AbroadI thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for securing today’s incredibly important debate, and the Backbench Business Committee for…05 Dec 2024HANSARDDetained British Nationals AbroadI thank my hon. Friend for being so clear, but can he say whether the criteria for deciding whether a British national has been arbitrarily detained will be published?05 Dec 2024HANSARDGeorgiaI read with some alarm the reports about the Georgian elections, including a report by the OSCE on vote buying, multi-voting, Russian disinformation and intimidation. Is the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineWhile Europeans spend barely the cost of two cups of coffee a week on support for the war in Ukraine, 41% of Russia’s total expenditure is spent on the war. They have had to cut…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNorth-West SyriaDuring the Syrian civil war, millions of Syrians moved to Turkey and southern Lebanon, so they have already been displaced once. In Turkey, Erdoğan has been encouraging them to go…02 Dec 2024HANSARDIsraeli Settler Violence: SanctionsI will also ask my right hon. Friend about Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, and perhaps if I ask in a different way, we might get an answer. Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton tells us that…26 Nov 2024HANSARDIsrael-Gaza Conflict: Arrest WarrantsThe International Criminal Court was created when 120 countries put their names to the Rome statute and signed up to the principle that certain basic standards of behaviour must…25 Nov 2024HANSARD G20 and COP29 SummitsAt this time of such great uncertainty and with so many threats, there has never been a more important time for Britain to be back on the world stage, and we have been missed. We…21 Nov 2024HANSARD Ukraine: 1,000 DaysMembers of my Committee and I have been meeting large numbers of European friends and neighbours, not just Ukrainians. Last week we met the Foreign Minister from Estonia, who told…19 Nov 2024HANSARD Jailing of Hong Kong Pro-democracy ActivistsThe verdicts and sentences of the 45 are, like the 2020 national security law itself and the treatment of Jimmy Lai, clear violations of the Sino-British joint declaration on Hong…19 Nov 2024HANSARD Israel: UNRWA BanUNRWA staff are expected to uphold neutrality, and receive compulsory training on humanitarian principles. It shares staff names and ID numbers with host countries. It has its…29 Oct 2024HANSARD China: Human Rights and SanctionsMy right hon. Friend has rightly outlined the complex nature of our relationship with China. May I add to the long list the tension in the strait of Taiwan and the effect that…28 Oct 2024HANSARDLebanon: CeasefireThe new Government’s call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and in Gaza is, of course, greatly welcomed. However, today we hear that one of UNIFIL’s watchtowers was bombed by…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Gaza and LebanonMy right hon. Friend speaks with great eloquence about how completely wrong it is for UN peacekeepers to be attacked in the way that they have been. They put their bodies on the…15 Oct 2024HANSARDAnniversary of 7 October Attacks: Middle EastOn this anniversary, the House unites in its condemnation of the murder of more than 1,000 Israeli citizens and makes a united call for the release of 100 hostages. Parliament…07 Oct 2024