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HANSARD Rough SleepingI beg to move, That this House has considered ending rough sleeping. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees. It is a joy to be back in Westminster Hall with…08 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO UpdateAbout 10 days ago, I met Oxford’s Hazara community, one of whom described how they had paid exorbitant amounts of money to human traffickers for their family to get to the…06 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanThe appalling scenes that we have witnessed over the last few days will certainly outlive us all, but equally moving are the accounts on the ground that I am sure we have all…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanThe right hon. and learned Gentleman speaks of people fleeing, but we have yet to assess whether anyone outside Kabul is able to get to a place of safety. Does he agree that a…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI thank my hon. Friend and agree with her wholeheartedly. As well as those who are facing imminent death, anyone whose life is put at risk— particularly if they have helped us in…18 Aug 2021HANSARDCyber-attack: MicrosoftIt is absolutely right that we are working in lockstep with our international allies to combat these attacks on our cyber-security. However, the Minister will be aware of hugely…20 Jul 2021HANSARDRough SleepingThe Everyone In scheme has undoubtedly been a success and led to incredible stories of lives being turned around in a housing-first approach that has support from all sides of the…19 Jul 2021HANSARDRough SleepingWith reference to the Government’s commitment to end rough sleeping by 2024, whether he has plans to update the rough sleeping strategy to set out how that commitment will be met.19 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateMy hon. Friend will have spent time knocking on doors in Chesham and Amersham, as I did. Is not her characterisation of the new Tory party exactly why many of those voters said…13 Jul 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe Secretary of State said in his statement that he was “grateful to the many, many people right across the UK who have selflessly done their duty”. We all are. Last week, a…06 Jul 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilIt is a genuine pleasure to follow the very powerful speech from the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis). I congratulate the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilNo, I will continue, because this is the important point. To be perfectly honest, as a Lib Dem looking to take seats off the Conservatives in the blue wall, I welcome the…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilYes, that may certainly be the case, and I will come to polling in a moment, but the right hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that other polling that has been done—the right…30 Jun 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast week, Oxfordshire County Council, the Vale of White Horse District Council and I applied to the levelling-up fund for the snappily titled B4044 strategic cycle link between…24 Jun 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.24 Jun 2021HANSARDEvents Research ProgrammeThroughout this pandemic, transparency is key, and while, on the one hand, we can understand how circumstances have changed with the delta variant, it makes no sense in ensuring…22 Jun 2021HANSARDEngagementsKeith, a hotel manager in Oxford, contacted me last week because he is worried. Even if this country does open up in the next few weeks, he will not be able to run at full…16 Jun 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhile the Foreign Secretary was in Cornwall over the weekend, I was out knocking on doors in Chesham and Amersham. I spoke to lifelong Conservative voters, who told me that they…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Ethiopia“Never again”—that is what the international community said after the famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s. In fact, I lived there between the ages of five and eight, and I will never…14 Jun 2021HANSARDUyghur Tribunal: LondonListening to these reports—the latest in a series of accounts of disappearances, deportations and detentions of Uyghurs outside China—it is clear that the Chinese communist party…14 Jun 2021