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HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)Will the Minister give way?29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)Will my hon. Friend take an edifying intervention?29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)Will the hon. Member give way?29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)May I put it to the hon. Gentleman that he is completely misunderstanding what we are dealing with? We are dealing with absolutely extraordinary legislation that is quashing…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLesbian Visibility WeekLesbian Visibility Week should be about lesbians, but the website put up this week says it is about “celebrating the power of sisterhood by uplifting incredible LGBTQIA women and…25 Apr 2024HANSARDLesbian Visibility WeekYes, but there also has to be room for difference and for someone such as me to speak up on behalf of some lesbians who feel the way that I do—we are quite large in number. I do…25 Apr 2024HANSARDLesbian Visibility WeekOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker—25 Apr 2024HANSARDSudan: Government ResponseSudanese students at Heriot-Watt University in my constituency were desperately worried about their family members in Sudan when I met them last year at the request of the…22 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am sure that, like me, the Minister will have read the Law Society of England and Wales’s briefing on these amendments. Has he seen the polling it has reported, which shows that…22 Apr 2024HANSARD Afghan Refugees: Deportation from PakistanAs my hon. Friend the Member for West Dunbartonshire (Martin Docherty-Hughes) has already mentioned, in our report on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, the Joint…17 Apr 2024HANSARDIran-Israel UpdateI hold no candle for the Iranian regime. In fact, I recently co-authored a report on its disgraceful oppression of women and girls, which we concluded amounted to gender…15 Apr 2024HANSARDCass ReviewI warmly welcome this statement; that is not something that the Secretary of State will often hear from me. As she said, the Cass report has vindicated the concerns of many…15 Apr 2024HANSARD Women’s State Pension AgeThe WASPI campaign has asked me to emphasise its annoyance about how often Government Ministers, when talking about these issues, attempt to muddy the waters by referring back to…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Israel and GazaI do not think I have ever received as many emails of concern from constituents as I have about the situation in Gaza. As has already been said, over 500,000 Palestinians are at…19 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI was crystal clear at the start of my speech that I am speaking in a personal capacity, just as anything that I have written about my trip to Rwanda was written in a personal…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy answer to the hon. Lady is that, as I said at the outset of my speech, in assessing whether Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers, particularly LGBT asylum seekers, we…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Billrose—18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI do not have time to get into redesigning the system, but— [ Interruption. ] Well, during our inquiry, as the hon. Lady will recall, the Committee heard very detailed evidence…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWill the Minister give way?18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI give way to the hon. Lady, who was also on the visit to Kigali.18 Mar 2024