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HANSARD Afghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeIt is a particular pleasure to serve under your chairwomanship, Ms Ali. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing this debate and for all his…06 Jan 2022HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeMay I raise with the Minister again the particular vulnerability of women who were formerly judges and prosecutors in Afghanistan? She knows that I have been working with Marzia…06 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateAt Prime Minister’s questions, my right hon. Friend the Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Liz Saville Roberts) movingly raised the plight of care home residents, especially those…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders Billrose —07 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillIs not the reality that there are people who come to France fleeing their country of origin with the desire to come to the United Kingdom? Will the Minister look at new clause 10,…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI thank my hon. Friend for his forensic work on the Bill in Committee. He correctly says that the Bill does not propose any new safe legal routes, but there is one provision that…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillIt sounds like the Minister is announcing something a bit more radical than perhaps we had anticipated in relation to the Human Rights Act. Can he confirm that the Government are…07 Dec 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseEarlier this week, the third party, the Scottish National party, lost our Opposition half-day debate on the cost of living. Like others, I lost the opportunity to raise directly…02 Dec 2021HANSARD Economic CrimeI pay tribute to the right hon. Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) and the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) for securing this very important debate. I…02 Dec 2021HANSARDDraft Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (Continuation) Order 2021It is a real pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Ms Rees. I rise to associate myself with the comments made by the hon. Member for St Helens North and to thank him for…30 Nov 2021HANSARDDiversity and Freedom of Belief: Public InstitutionsAcross the United Kingdom, women in public institutions are being hounded for the belief that sex matters in life as well as in law. I have in mind the case of Professor Kathleen…24 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsA number of Government Departments have withdrawn from the Stonewall diversity champion scheme over concerns about the misrepresentation of equalities law and the resultant…22 Nov 2021HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small BoatsAt the beginning, the Home Secretary said that she would like to hear some concrete alternative proposals from the Opposition, so I will give her one. In written evidence to the…22 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs my hon. Friend the Member for East Renfrewshire (Kirsten Oswald) said, Scotland’s world-leading carbon capture and storage project at St Fergus was snubbed by the Government in…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq) on securing the debate and on her hard work…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeYes, indeed. I will come to that. Secondly, why has the Prime Minister failed to honour the personal promise to pay the debt that he made as Foreign Secretary to Mr Ratcliffe and,…16 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Law Society of Scotland has explained in detail why clause 2 of the Judicial Review and Courts Bill requires the Scottish Parliament’s legislative consent—it is basically…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Judicial Review and Courts BillWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?26 Oct 2021HANSARD Judicial Review and Courts BillI am grateful to the Lord Chancellor for giving way. I would like to intervene later on the specifics of this matter, but may I start by asking him this: the right to judicial…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Judicial Review and Courts BillThe Lord Chancellor will be aware—I am sure that this will be covered in other speeches—that the evidential basis for this law change in England has been questioned, but the Law…26 Oct 2021