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HANSARDDraft Radio Equipment (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Pritchard. Here we have another egregious example of how my constituents are disenfranchised when it comes to making laws that…11 Nov 2025HANSARD Remembrance Day: Armed ForcesThere is little more important than for a nation to remember, with poignancy and much reflection, those who won the freedoms that we enjoy today and to look back on our heroes,…11 Nov 2025HANSARD Welfare SpendingWill the Minister give way?04 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillThat is exactly what I said. Why does clause 11 not apply to the whole United Kingdom on the basis of a legislative consent motion? Such a motion could be sought from Stormont and…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillIt does, and then it goes on to tell us in clause 1(2) how it imposes that duty. There are five ways in which it does so. The first is by “imposing a duty on public authorities…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillI disagree. Many, many times in the Stormont Assembly, Bills that were passing through this House, which included measures such as new criminal offences, were subject to a…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillIf the Minister wants to make an intervention, I am quite happy to take it.03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillI would give way, if I had not run out of time. I say to the Government, yes, let us go forward with this Bill, but let us make it a better Bill that gives the same rights across…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillI agree absolutely, and such interventions have happened many times. If we are serious about saying there is a basis of equal citizenship across this United Kingdom, and that is…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillI therefore hope that the Minister, when she comes to reply, will indicate that, subject to legislative consent, she will indeed make this Bill apply across the whole United…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillIn welcoming this Bill, I am very mindful of the tenacity and courage of the campaigners who got us to this point, both outside and inside this House. They can take some comfort…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillThe Prime Minister has listed a litany of scandals where there have been cover-ups. Will he reflect on including the Chinook disaster, in respect of which there have been repeated…03 Nov 2025HANSARD“Soldier F” Trial VerdictI greatly welcome the “not guilty” verdict on Soldier F, but has the Secretary of State no empathy with Soldier F, a man who has lived through years of turmoil and torture while…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Gaza and HamasAre we expected to believe that in the months and years ahead, the Government will stand by their promise that Hamas must be fully disarmed and play no part in the Government in…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillMuch of this Bill does not apply to my constituents, because in the main it does not apply to Northern Ireland. However, there is a key component of the Bill that is supposed to…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillWill the Minister give us an assurance that, if there turns out to be a distinction in that foreign nationals cannot be deported from Northern Ireland because of article 2 of the…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Family Farming in Northern IrelandIn that context, does the CenTax report not make evident sense? If we impose the full-blooded inheritance tax on the top end—on those above £10 million—are we not reaping the same…28 Oct 2025HANSARD Support for Disabled VeteransI commend the hon. Member for bringing forward this debate. As a representative from Northern Ireland, I am conscious that it is where many of our veterans suffered the injury…28 Oct 2025HANSARD Family Farming in Northern IrelandDoes the hon. Lady agree that although the Government say that the effect of the inheritance tax on farms will be pro-growth, it will actually be anti-growth? In order to prepare…28 Oct 2025HANSARDChina Spying CaseAmong all the finger-pointing in this House, there are some immutable facts, and one is that in the spring of 2024, the evidential burden to bring a prosecution was met, because…28 Oct 2025