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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillBack in 2019, the company that provides accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland housed around 1,000 people. Last Thursday, the figure was 3,271. One third of them are…13 Mar 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank the Prime Minister and colleagues right across the House for their care and concern for DCI John Caldwell and his family. The Prime Minister knows that it is good to talk.…27 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation) BillAnyone with experience of Northern Ireland issues will recognise what happens when they come to this Chamber. Joy is rarely associated with Northern Ireland issues when they come…22 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation) BillThe Secretary of State is right to say that Northern Ireland will succeed when our local politicians work together. We have done so in the past, and we have overcome much greater…22 Feb 2023HANSARD Probationary Police Officers: Cost of LivingI hope that the Minister will able to go back after this debate and ensure that tat frequency of funding for the tackling paramilitarism and crime taskforce will remain, because…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Probationary Police Officers: Cost of LivingI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this Adjournment debate. He is right to outline the figure of 7,500 officers provided in New Decade, New Approach. Contained in New…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Building SafetyI thank the Secretary of State for his ongoing commitment on these issues. He may be aware that in my constituency there is the ARC—the Abercorn residential complex—a building…30 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillI know that if I had attempted to discuss my new clause in Committee, I would have been asked to sit down, but I want the Minster to take away the sense of feeling in the debate…23 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillTo add to that, I outlined the difficulties of the squeeze over the next three financial years, which will see £2,000 taken from the spend of every household in Northern Ireland.…23 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. It is what is known as the Barnett squeeze: it started off at 29%, it was 25% in 2002 with the Northern Ireland Executive, and it is currently…23 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillI thank the Minister. I appreciated the correspondence, which he copied to colleagues as well, and I appreciate him looking at this. The scheme that was referred to his officials…23 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillAs you know, Madam Deputy Speaker, it is customary to say that it is a great pleasure to follow the previous speaker—in this case the hon. Member for Foyle (Colum Eastwood)—so may…23 Jan 2023HANSARDStrangford Lough: Tidal Wave EnergyI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important Adjournment debate. As he travels from his home to his office along the Portaferry Road, he will know of not only the…10 Jan 2023HANSARDIllegal ImmigrationI thank the Prime Minister for the important suite of proposals that he has outlined this afternoon and say that we will constructively engage with his Ministers on any…13 Dec 2022HANSARDUnduly Lenient Sentencing SchemeWould the Solicitor General recognise that whenever people in this country try to have a debate around mandatory minimum sentences there is an automatic superficial reaction that…07 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis morning, we tragically learned that a five-year-old girl who was a P2 pupil at Black Mountain Primary School died yesterday in Belfast with strep A. I am grateful to the…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Energy Bills Support Scheme: Northern IrelandDoes the Minister accept that, while he is now asking the companies to provide a cash-out facility, they offered Government a process that would allow cash-out in June and July of…30 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) BillI wish to speak to the amendments in my name and those of my party colleagues. I have a sense from the way in which some colleagues have gathered that they are interested in an…29 Nov 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) BillThe Secretary of State outlines his disappointment that we do not have functioning devolution in Northern Ireland and I share that disappointment, but he knows acutely why the…29 Nov 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) BillI want to raise an important amendment that was tabled but not selected for consideration in Committee, on the Grenfell remediation scheme for non-aluminium composite material…29 Nov 2022