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HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) BillI know that the Minister has considered amendment 13 and that he has published helpful guidance, which he may wish to address now.29 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) BillWe are almost there. I am very grateful to the Minister for that clarification. Clearly, the guidance says that the reports will be made available to Parliament. In our normal…29 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) BillDame Rosie, you can see that there is a willingness and desire to move things along. I am very grateful to the Minister and to the Secretary of State for their engagement. That is…29 Nov 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland ElectionsI welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment that there will be no consideration of joint authority. May I mildly castigate the Northern Ireland Office for the 48-hour hiatus…09 Nov 2022HANSARD National SecurityAs the Democratic Unionist party spokesman for home affairs, may I express my personal delight at seeing the Minister in his place? I hope that when he is constructing this…01 Nov 2022HANSARD UkraineI thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement. I recognise the answers that he has already given about sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; I encourage him to…31 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]I thank you for your chairmanship of the Committee, Mr Deputy Speaker. At this point in the parliamentary consideration of this Bill, I rise in sorrow rather than anger. When I…26 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend will set out our aspirations in the amendments we have tabled. Those amendments are about getting back to what was agreed in New Decade, New Approach. On Second…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Residents: British PassportsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has campaigned on the issue for many years. Does he agree that it has been clear throughout the peace process and indeed stretching further…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Residents: British PassportsThe Minister is entitled to consider his passport whatever way he likes. My hon. Friend the Member for East Londonderry (Mr Campbell) mentioned a Member of the House of Lords. To…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Residents: British PassportsIn many ways, the Minister is arguing against himself. He knows that he does not have the space to concede in this debate. Whether people are a mile from the border or at the very…18 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]I am listening intently to the Secretary of State, and he is right to quote the former First Minister but wrong to associate this Bill with what was agreed in January 2020. In…12 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]Will the hon. Member give way?12 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]I had not intended to speak until perhaps the very end, so I am grateful to be called so early. I am delighted to follow in the footsteps of my hon. Friend the Member for Upper…12 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]Coronavirus. I am not sure whether the hon. Member was aware, but there was a pandemic in our country and around the world, and normal government was set aside in the interests of…12 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]It is the antithesis of democracy; it has applied to a couple of other issues over the last number of years, and here we see it again. The Secretary of State and his colleague the…12 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]If there was—and I cannot doubt the veracity of what the Minister says about the intention the Government may have—there is absolutely no need for the power in circumstances where…12 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]Now, and if not now, probably more purposefully in the future when circumstances change, personnel change and Government change. It is a road down which this Government should not…12 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]I understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart) might like to intervene. She was not demeaning or dismissing anybody who has campaigned for Irish. In…12 Oct 2022HANSARDUkraineI wish the Minister well as he takes up his new role. He is right to say that we have engaged with and are responding to the requests from Ukraine, but he should know that when we…11 Oct 2022