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HANSARDWest Balkans: Council of EuropeThe hon. Lady seems to have read my speech, because she is anticipating some of the points that I will make later. I made that point at the Council of Europe and I am happy to…16 Nov 2022HANSARDWest Balkans: Council of EuropeI thank the hon. Lady for her comments, and it was a great pleasure to see her in Bosnia-Herzegovina where she was representing the OSCE. That was very much a joint mission to…16 Nov 2022HANSARDWest Balkans: Council of EuropeI thank the hon. Lady very much for her question. That is a large part of what my speech is about. The Council of Europe has a pivotal role in the area in being able to take…16 Nov 2022HANSARDWest Balkans: Council of EuropeI beg to move, That this House has considered the West Balkans and the Council of Europe. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes, and a great pleasure to move…16 Nov 2022HANSARDWest Balkans: Council of EuropeI thank everyone who has participated in this debate. They have made it a very cross-party debate, as is typical of the Council of Europe, and as is typical of how I try to run…16 Nov 2022HANSARD Fertility Treatment and Employment RightsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken) on her wonderful…01 Nov 2022HANSARD UkraineWill my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating President Zelensky on engaging directly with parliamentarians such as myself at the Council of Europe, where he spoke openly…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Online HarmsI want to offer some help to my right hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) in looking further afield for evidence of this sort of thing working well. That…26 Oct 2022HANSARD UkraineIs my hon. Friend aware that we have just heard the news that a young woman was killed in Moscow by the Russian police for participating in anti-war demonstrations? Will he…22 Sept 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenI recall my first encounter with the Queen on a visit to a foreign country: her 1994 visit to Russia. She went to Moscow and St Petersburg at the request of Boris Yeltsin, and I…09 Sept 2022HANSARD Ukraine UpdateI heard the Secretary of State’s answer to my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) on nuclear weapons, but is he aware that President Lukashenko…05 Sept 2022HANSARDSchools BillI should declare straightaway that I have taken on this petition from my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart). I will start by pointing out how…13 Jul 2022HANSARDBBC Charter: Regional Television NewsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. My hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Rob Butler) has been far too modest about his achievements in…12 Jul 2022HANSARDBBC Charter: Regional Television NewsHas the Minister been struck, as I have, by the similarity between what we are asking for for local investigative journalism and how the brand operates at a global level? It seems…12 Jul 2022HANSARD NATO Accession: Sweden and FinlandWill the Minister recognise with me the work of the UK delegation to the Council of Europe for the lobbying that we have undertaken of the Turkish delegation to get Turkey to…06 Jul 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q Earlier, you were asked about our relationship with the EU on this matter, and you mentioned progress in precision breeding across the world. How does that fit together, where…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCouncil of EuropeWill the hon. Member join us in supporting Kosovo’s membership of the Council of Europe, which will be coming forward later in the year?15 Jun 2022HANSARDCouncil of EuropeIs the hon. Gentleman aware that we are arranging a tour around the European Court of Human Rights for members of the delegation, hopefully in the next session, so that they can…15 Jun 2022HANSARDCouncil of EuropeI would ask that question on a different occasion and in a different way, and I would hope to get a better answer than the hon. Member. On that note, I will end the debate.…15 Jun 2022HANSARDCouncil of EuropeIt has already been stated that I try to run the delegation as a cross-party group, but it is important to bear in mind that it is also a cross-Houses group that includes Members…15 Jun 2022