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HANSARDEquipment Theft (Prevention) BillI would be really interested to see the details of those figures. I am sorry to say that detection rates, charge rates and prosecution rates are all going in the wrong direction…02 Dec 2022HANSARDEquipment Theft (Prevention) BillIt is a genuine pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Milton Keynes North (Ben Everitt), who has shared some of his insight and expertise, having clearly spent a great deal of…02 Dec 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Leader of the House might remember that, just before bonfire night, I raised my concerns about potential disorder and asked at business questions for a debate. In just one…01 Dec 2022HANSARD Rail Cancellations and Service LevelsThe Minister has just said that it is not a seven-day-a-week service, but actually it is not an any-day-of-the-week service currently. We have already heard from my hon. Friend…01 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Investigatory Powers Commissioner (Oversight Functions) Regulations 2022
Draft Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources and Interception: Codes of Practice) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Sir Robert. I thank the Minister for his opening contribution. On the draft Investigatory Powers Commissioner…23 Nov 2022HANSARD IranWe know that we have Iranian nationals here in the UK who have clear links to the regime. We also know that Iranian and, in particular, Iranian-heritage journalists based here in…16 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillIt is a pleasure to be back in the Chamber at the Report stage of this hugely important piece of legislation. Bill Committee colleagues will join me in saying that it was not…16 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for making that powerful point. He is absolutely right that there is a distinct lack of consistency. If we are singling out specific criminal…16 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillI am grateful for the intervention. The points that I am about to make about the value and role of an independent reviewer of this legislation relate to how, if some of the…16 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillI rise to confirm that the Labour party supports the Third Reading of this Bill. It is the first job of every Government to defend our national security from hostile states that…16 Nov 2022HANSARDVisitor Visa Applications: Potential BarriersIn contrast to family, spouse and visitor visas, golden visas were available until February 2022 to all who could afford them, including the world’s super-rich, with next to no…14 Nov 2022HANSARDOverseas Chinese Police Stations in UK: Legal StatusI, too, welcome the Minister to the Dispatch Box. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia Kearns) for securing the urgent question. As we have heard, the…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS Dental Care in HalifaxConstituents in Halifax have increasingly been contacting me, saying that they are simply unable to get an NHS dental appointment under any circumstances. The British Dental…01 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Participating Countries) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Order 2022As always, it is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Efford. I thank the Minister for his opening contribution, and I am genuinely pleased to see him in his place this morning.…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Crisis in IranOf course we welcome the fact that the Government have sanctioned key senior officers of Iran’s brutal morality police and the revolutionary guard, as well as those involved in…25 Oct 2022HANSARDDraft Terrorism Act 2000 (Alterations to the Search Powers Code England and Wales and Scotland) Order 2022As always, Ms Elliott, it is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair. I thank the Minister for setting out the merits of the proposals. In June, we met to discuss the proposed…19 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)On a point of order, Mr Gray. If I may—18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)There is a need to try to put a stop to some of this activity, and I just wonder what the relationship is between the visibility and the need to stop it.18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Of course, and I am grateful. May I bring the Minister’s attention to an example that I have had a chance to look at, and which has broken today? Up to 30 former UK military…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am so grateful for your guidance, Mr Gray. I want to put on the record my thanks to some of those who have supported the Committee’s deliberations and made our scrutiny…18 Oct 2022