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HANSARD Palestine: Road Map to PeaceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Rees. I thank my hon. Friend and neighbour the Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Tahir Ali)—in fact, my own MP—for bringing…17 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsI normally have to say that thing—there are all these things we have to say—“It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope)”. I am actually…16 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsCan the Secretary of State tell me, first, what contact he has had with the Home Office regarding the murder of Agnes Wanjiru to ensure that at least there has been effective…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyEvery single constituency Member of Parliament who has ever tried to get any sort of road safety measure in and has been told that they have to wait until somebody dies on that…08 Nov 2021HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Decision of the HouseI shall start with an apology to you, Mr Speaker. As I have already mentioned to you, I have to leave the debate straight after my comments because I am due in Westminster Hall to…08 Nov 2021HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Decision of the HouseI am delighted to hear the hon. Gentleman defending judicial review. I absolutely love a bit of judicial review. I have taken the Government to court on a number of occasions—for…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyThank you, Mr Gray. I apologise to all assembled. I tried to leave the Chamber but was called as I was leaving—I was assured by Mr Speaker that he wanted me to speak. I have read…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyI agree, although I have to say that even that kind of spiking is not necessarily a new phenomenon. I am a little old for nightclubs now—actually, I am not—but I remember there…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyThe underreporting of this, and of all violence against women and girls, is well charted. We estimate that, at best, we are hearing about 20% of it. It used to be that only 8%—or…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and our hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) pointed out very clearly that one of his constituents had that exact…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyWill the Minister give way?08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyHow many licensing committees does the Minister think have their eye on violence against women and girls across the country and will be paying attention to this issue?08 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsI simply ask the Leader of the House a question that I ask of all Conservative Members. Does he think he would be standing here today and making these changes if it were a Labour…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsWith much respect, and having worked with the right hon. Lady for many months on the ICGS process, it is only fair, in the light of that, that I raise that today two of the people…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Independent Expert Panel Recommendations for Sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015Nobody made that connection until the hon. Gentleman just stood up. What I said was that it is unacceptable because that person would have nowhere to go. The reality is that…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Independent Expert Panel Recommendations for Sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015Absolutely not. We have just heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda, who is highly respected on this issue, that that will not be the case, and I have not been whipped…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Independent Expert Panel Recommendations for Sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015I wish to say from the get-go that had the case that has been discussed involved a Labour Member I would say exactly the same thing as I am about to say. On the substantive…19 Oct 2021HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsObviously, all of us on the Opposition Benches wish to be associated with the words of the Home Secretary, and send our love and best regards to Sir David’s family. He was kind…18 Oct 2021HANSARDBaby Loss Awareness WeekI wish to raise a specific point about covid that I learned of from an obstetric consultant: the number of preemie births dramatically dropped during covid because women were at…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Human Rights: KashmirI thank the all-party group and its brilliant chair for bringing us a brilliant and balanced debate today, but without the brilliant persistence of the Kashmiri diaspora in this…23 Sept 2021