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HANSARD Northern Ireland TroublesI suppose I should take that praise from the right hon. Gentleman at face value. The fact is that sections 46 and 47 were found to be incompatible, but I have listened, and I hope…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Northern Ireland TroublesWhen they introduced immunity, the previous Government said that it would apply not just to veterans but to others, including terrorists, and that is what the legislation did in…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Northern Ireland TroublesThe Government do not wish to see anybody hounded. We have put these protections in place precisely because we have listened to the concerns that veterans have expressed to me, to…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Northern Ireland TroublesI thank the hon. Gentleman for his service. If he looks at the nearly 100 cases that the commission is currently investigating, he will find that they include the Guilford pub…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Northern Ireland TroublesThe hon. Gentleman, for whom I have great respect, asks what is, in fairness, a totally hypothetical question. [ Interruption. ] Well it is a hypothetical question. The fact is…14 Oct 2025HANSARDLegacy of the Troubles: UK and Ireland Joint FrameworkMy noble Friend Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent made the following statement on Friday 19 September: I wish to report to the House on the Government’s approach to dealing with…13 Oct 2025HANSARDWindsor Framework: Independent ReviewFollowing the outcome of the democratic consent vote which was held in the Assembly in December 2024, and in line with schedule 6A to the Northern Ireland Act 1998, I commissioned…04 Sept 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionI am afraid that because of the time I am not able to. That is why, as well as listening carefully to veterans, which we are doing, we also need to listen to the many families who…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionI am not going to give way. The other challenge that all of us have to face is the lack of confidence in the Act on the part of communities in Northern Ireland, and in the…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I am grateful to the organisers of the petition, to the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont)…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionI did not say it was illegal; I said it was unlawful. I shall come directly to the right hon. Gentleman’s point. Look at the facts: of the 250,000 veterans who served so bravely…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionLegacy is hard. This is the unfinished business of the Good Friday agreement.14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionIf the right hon. Gentleman will bear with me, we have also heard it said that terrorists are not being prosecuted and have somehow been given immunity. I want to challenge that,…14 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Reviewer for National Security Arrangements: ReportThe role of the Independent Reviewer of National Security Arrangements in Northern Ireland is to monitor compliance with annex E of the St Andrews agreement 2006, reviewing the…08 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review: Northern Ireland ExecutiveThe spending review gives the Northern Ireland Executive more funds to disperse as they see fit. It comes alongside the publication of the industrial strategy, the funds that the…02 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review: Northern Ireland ExecutiveThe hon. Gentleman needs to keep up. I answered a parliamentary question yesterday in which I made it clear that we will deal with this issue, which arises because of the…02 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review: Northern Ireland ExecutiveMy hon. Friend will have noticed the funding made available for local growth. As part of the spending review, discussions on the fiscal framework will be taken forward by the…02 Jul 2025HANSARDA75 and A77 Roads: Economic ImpactI have many and varied responsibilities, but I was not aware that the A9 was one of them. I hope that the Scottish Government will have heard my hon. Friend’s strong plea.02 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review: Northern Ireland ExecutiveThe answer to the right hon. Gentleman is that it is additional.02 Jul 2025HANSARDEU Trade Agreement: Economic ImpactIt is the requirement of the Windsor framework, which the last Government negotiated, to address the basic problem of having two different systems and an open border. Everybody…02 Jul 2025