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HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor FrameworkPerhaps in a moment. We also see that in the purchase of goods figures that NISRA reports. It has given us figures from 2020, contrasting them in a table with those for 2023. The…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor Frameworkrose—04 Mar 2025HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor FrameworkIt is punishment.04 Mar 2025HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor FrameworkThe issue of diversion of trade is becoming an increasing problem of manifold proportions for Northern Ireland. Before the protocol, goods could be moved from Birmingham to…04 Mar 2025HANSARDUkraineI note with great appreciation the order for Thales in Belfast. With Europe collectively being a long way short of self-sufficiency in defence, and with Putin more than likely to…03 Mar 2025HANSARDIndependent Reporting Commission: Seventh Annual ReportAfter decades of illegal paramilitary organisations taking successive Governments for a ride over transition and pocketing millions of pounds along the way, the Secretary of State…26 Feb 2025HANSARDDefence and SecurityI absolutely agree with the Prime Minister that this is an important moment for our nation, and I welcome the rebalancing of expenditure towards defence. However, does he agree…25 Feb 2025HANSARD Crown Estate Bill [Lords]Does the hon. Member agree that one of the problems in this territory is that we do not yet have the definition of what is meant to be sustainable? On reading the Bill, it appears…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Crown Estate Bill [Lords]I wish to primarily address new clause 7, tabled by the hon. Members for Belfast South and Mid Down (Claire Hanna) and for Ynys Môn (Llinos Medi), and to express opposition to it.…24 Feb 2025HANSARDUkraineNo Member of this House should be in any doubt as to who the aggressor is in this situation, who the dictator is, or who started this war. No one should give cover to the dictator…24 Feb 2025HANSARDClonoe InquestThere is tangible anger in Northern Ireland over this preposterous verdict, and the Secretary of State’s limp response today will not assuage that anger. This is a Secretary of…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Scrutiny of European Statutory InstrumentsYes. The Cabinet Office undertakes to notify on a weekly basis, but I think that is honoured more in default than anything else. From a scrutiny point of view, we are in a…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Scrutiny of European Statutory InstrumentsI hear what the hon. Gentleman says and I do not gainsay it. If that is so, it is a very poor reflection on the interest in scrutiny. Not only do we have this lacuna in scrutiny…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Scrutiny of European Statutory InstrumentsScrutiny of the laws that we make and that bind us is very important, and it is exceedingly important when the origins of the laws are not within our own parliamentary framework.…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Scrutiny of European Statutory InstrumentsYes, and there is much talk about tariffs. Think of the conundrum that would be created if President Trump imposed tariffs on the EU. Northern Ireland, treated as EU territory,…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Scrutiny of European Statutory InstrumentsAbsolutely. There is a sheer volume of EU law that still applies in Northern Ireland. In annex 2 to the protocol, there are 287 such areas of law, and many have been added to it…11 Feb 2025HANSARDArmed Forces RecruitmentFollowing on from the previous question, does the Minister accept that recruitment is bound to be disincentivised by a finding, 30 years on, that people who did their duty and…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsI have heard no one in this debate defend the land-banking corporations, but I have heard many Members objecting to genuine farmers’ being treated in the same way as if they were…10 Feb 2025HANSARDChagos IslandsI have a simple question: do the Government disagree with anything that the Prime Minister of Mauritius said about this deal yesterday, and if so, what is it?05 Feb 2025HANSARDUK-US Bilateral RelationshipIt is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I want to use this debate to try to get an answer to a question that I asked in PMQs a few weeks ago, and to which I…04 Feb 2025