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HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestOf course, the hon. Gentleman too has engaged very closely with Mr Chan, and very welcome that is too. I am sure that everyone around the House would congratulate him and thank…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestMy hon. Friend is right to raise the contrast between our own rule of law and the deplorable, despicable experience that has been meted out to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. He will…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI thank the Chairman of the Select Committee for that. She has made clear her view that a crime was committed, and that is the view that many others have taken, but it is not a…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI thank the hon. Lady for her questions. She is right to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for his interview…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI have set out the actions that we are proposing to take at the moment. Of course, as I have said in terms, we recognise the seriousness of this matter. We also recognise the…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI thank my right hon. Friend for his further remarks. We should be absolutely clear that participating in an assault, if that is what is determined to have happened, is completely…20 Oct 2022HANSARDDraft Sanctions (Damages Cap) Regulations 2022I am very grateful to both hon. Gentlemen who have spoken. Let us be clear that there has been a very broad sense of unanimity across the House on the issue. We very much welcome…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersThe hon. Member may have missed the point in my statement where I said—and let me go further—that His Majesty’s Government are not only deeply concerned, but actively condemn the…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersI have already made that clear to the House, but let me do so again. I am not suggesting—as I said earlier—that there is a direct connection, or indeed, any connection, between…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersIt is absolutely right to highlight the change in the position that China has taken over the past seven years. I do not think there is any doubt that it has changed, and we have…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersThe hon. Gentleman will know that there are plenty of ways in which this country has economic relationships with Chinese companies. In the normal course of trade, that has been to…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I do not think that I should comment on the activities of the consulate, with which I am not personally familiar, but he is right that…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to raise that question. We would expect the independent police and other authorities to make as thorough an investigation as they can, given the…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersI am not sure that I fully caught the final sentence of the hon. Lady’s question, but it is of course an aspect of a UK-wide support network that we should be able to provide a…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersThe hon. Lady will be aware that the sanctions regime in question relates to the UN, which is a very effective international co-ordinating body. As I have touched on, we have…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersAs you will be aware, Mr Speaker, there is no question of hiding behind process; we have a rule of law in this country and we allow legal processes to go through. We allow…18 Oct 2022HANSARDDraft Sanctions (Damages Cap) Regulations 2022If I may, I will discuss and consider with officials whether we can properly respond, or whether, for reasons he will understand, that information has to be retained for present…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersI think my hon. Friend has misunderstood me, as I have not said that there needs to be a legal process; I have said that there has to be a process of determining what the facts…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that important point. My understanding is that such organisations have no formal status of any kind in this country. The concerns of…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consulate: Attack on Hong Kong ProtestersYoung, youthful and vigorous as the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee is, the intake of ’29 might not be quite the right one for her. Of course I take the point made by my…18 Oct 2022