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HANSARDTopical QuestionsYou may have a sense of déjà vu, Mr Speaker, when I tell you that before Christmas the Secretary of State appointed a preferred candidate as Charity Commission chair. Within a…06 Jan 2022HANSARD Dormant Assets Bill [Lords]We in the Scottish National party welcome the Bill and the expansion of the dormant assets scheme. The extra £880 million now available as a result is very welcome, especially in…06 Dec 2021HANSARDBosnia and Herzegovina: Stability and PeaceAs the right hon. and gallant Member knows, as a BBC presenter I interviewed him many times at that time. He mentioned a number of times the secession of the Bosnian Serb part of…02 Dec 2021HANSARDBosnia and Herzegovina: Stability and PeaceAs the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia Kearns) said, Putin is the common factor in destabilising Belarus, Ukraine and Bosnia. Just as we support them, should we not…02 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagements13. Scots stood slack-jawed with astonishment this week at the news that the Prime Minister has abandoned his DUP bridge to Northern Ireland—perhaps he will offer hot air balloons…24 Nov 2021HANSARDLGBTQ+ Inclusion in SportI am sure the Secretary of State will join the Minister in congratulating Josh Cavallo, the only top-tier footballer in the world currently playing to have come out publicly as…18 Nov 2021HANSARD Touring Musicians: EU Visas and PermitsI thank the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) and the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (David Warburton) for securing the debate. It is a…18 Nov 2021HANSARDLGBTQ+ Afghan RefugeesI congratulate the hon. Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing the debate. Our hasty, chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has left the country in despair. Most in danger are…21 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would also like to welcome the Secretary of State to her place. I have been glancing at her oeuvre, and now is perhaps not the time to discuss the alarming dumbing down she once…16 Sept 2021HANSARDBack British Farming DayI will pursue my point. I have already taken two interventions and there is a limit to how many I can take in a speech. The impact of global warming on temperature and weather…15 Sept 2021HANSARDBack British Farming DayWill the hon. Lady give way?15 Sept 2021HANSARDBack British Farming DayIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. I thank the hon. Member for Stafford (Theo Clarke) for securing this debate. I begin by saying a huge thank you to…15 Sept 2021HANSARDBack British Farming DayI will make some progress, if I may. The deal as a whole will deliver one 200th of the benefits of the EU over the next 15 years, and is worth only 0.01% of GDP. That causes two…15 Sept 2021HANSARDBack British Farming DayI will pursue my point for a moment. Although the Prime Minister assured us that hormone-induced cattle will not come to the UK, we all remember he also promised at the last…15 Sept 2021HANSARDBack British Farming DayUnlike the majority party in Northern Ireland, we opposed Brexit. We thought it was going to be a disaster, and we opposed the Brexit agreement. I know the Democratic Unionist…15 Sept 2021HANSARDBack British Farming DayLet us see. Many of the assurances we were given on Brexit have proved very different in reality. Climate pledges were secretly dropped from the deal. Paris agreement temperature…15 Sept 2021HANSARDChannel 4: PrivatisationHere we go again. Only four years ago, in what turned out to be the Government and Channel 4’s phoney war, the privatising zealots were licking their lips at the thought of a…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsYesterday, at the Prime Minister’s instigation, 333 Conservative Members of this House, including some of its wealthiest, voted to deprive some of the world’s poorest children of…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Pride MonthLet us consider these words: “People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and…01 Jul 2021HANSARDChannel 4The case for the privatisation of Channel 4 was, of course, debunked by the then Secretary of State last time the issue reared its head. I think her assessment was that it would…01 Jul 2021