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HANSARDInterim Custody Orders: CompensationThis issue arose following the Supreme Court judgment in 2020, which found certain custody orders to be unlawful. The amendment to the legacy Act to try to deal with that has also…21 May 2025HANSARDInterim Custody Orders: CompensationI thank my hon. Friend for his service in our armed forces, alongside all those who served. He is absolutely right about the flawed piece of legislation that this Government…21 May 2025HANSARDStrengthening the Union: GB and NIThe Government and I support the Union, and I also support the Good Friday agreement. I point out to the hon. and learned Gentleman that when it comes to customs arrangements,…21 May 2025HANSARDInterim Custody Orders: CompensationThe Government are currently considering the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the representations made to it.21 May 2025HANSARD Windsor Framework: Parcel DeliveryI am not ignoring the general product safety regulation. This is a debate about parcels. I am well aware of the issues that arise because of its implementation. There is no bar on…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Windsor Framework: Parcel DeliveryI am not seeking to play down anything. If the right hon. Gentleman would be kind enough to write to me with further details of the business that he described, I will look into it…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Windsor Framework: Parcel DeliveryI simply do not accept that characterisation of what we are debating and what I am seeking to describe. To return to the point that I was in the process of putting to Members, a…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Windsor Framework: Parcel DeliveryLet me start again. It is a pleasure to respond to this debate. I offer my thanks to the hon. and learned Member for North Antrim (Jim Allister) for having secured it, giving us…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Windsor Framework: Parcel DeliveryIt is a great pleasure to respond to this debate and to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I begin by offering my thanks— Sitting suspended for Divisions in the House.30 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. As the Prime Minister has said, tariffs are not good news for anyone and no one wants a trade war. The Government are doing…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyNotwithstanding what we have been discussing today, Northern Ireland imports about £800 million-worth of goods from the United States of America, which is about 2% of the total…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point for businesses in Northern Ireland. As he would expect, I have had precisely that discussion with HMRC. The honest answer to the…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyWe are all having to navigate this new uncertainty as a result of the decision that the US Administration have made. It is certainly true that leaving the European Union has…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about the benefits that the Windsor framework has given businesses in Northern Ireland in terms of access to the EU market. I would…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyI have done my level best to set out the situation. We all understand the reasons. Northern Ireland gains from the Windsor framework because of its access— [ Interruption. ] Well,…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyThe single most important thing we can do for those businesses in Northern Ireland is, as I indicated a moment ago, to ensure that the duty reimbursement scheme works speedily and…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyAs I indicated in answer to the Opposition spokesperson, of course the Government have been preparing for all eventualities, but as I also indicated, there is no point in…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyIn the circumstances in which this country and many countries around the world find themselves, we are having this discussion because of a decision that the United States…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyI am very happy to assure my hon. Friend that the interests of all parts of the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, are uppermost in the minds of all Ministers in trying…08 Apr 2025HANSARDEU Tariffs: United States and Northern Ireland EconomyWhat the right hon. Gentleman proposes ignores the reality that faces Northern Ireland as a result of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, and the fact that…08 Apr 2025