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HANSARD Easter Recess: Government UpdateThe sentence is not about the Prime Minister, but I will withdraw it if you do not like that word, Mr Speaker. Those were the things that got Jeffrey Archer, Fiona Onasanya and…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Easter Recess: Government UpdateI share the Prime Minister’s thoughts on Ukraine. Over Easter, my constituents collected the morning-after pill to send to Ukraine for women who are being raped by Russian forces.…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillThe right hon. Gentleman is making a good point. I wanted to highlight the difficulty for Syrian Kurds, who often flee over the Turkish border. This Government believe that Turkey…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillMy hon. Friend is making very good points. Is it not the case that the only way to apply for asylum in Britain is to come through an irregular route, because someone has no…22 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillThe hon. Gentleman is making a very good speech on the importance of that relationship between the Land Registry and Companies House. Does he agree that the requirement still to…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI am pleased to see the amendments that would lower the threshold to 10%. In the prelegislative scrutiny of the Registration of Overseas Entities Bill, the Government indicated…07 Mar 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI do. The expansion of police powers is highly disproportionate. In the words of a former police chief and senior officers who have written to the Government, it will place an…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillWhen people complain to me about the noise at Prime Minister’s questions, I always tell them that they can tune into any of the two-hour hearings of the Select Committees that I…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillWill the Minister give way?28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI have read the section that the Minister is referring to.28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillIt sounds a bit like the Minister is saying that the words we say in here do not really matter, but the legislation that we pass here, including making misogyny an aggravating…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseWe all support exactly what the Government are doing, even if we sometimes want to go quicker, but these are fast-moving events. It would be useful with some of the sanctions to…28 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI hope the Prime Minister can reassure me that locking out Russian state money will include our overseas territories and dependencies. I note that protests are taking place in a…24 Feb 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I want to correct the record. Yesterday, I said that the Israeli Labor party and Meretz party—Labour’s two equal sister parties in Israel—had…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]Will my right hon. Friend give way?22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]Is there not a problem with this, in that it leaves the Secretary of State to decide what the foreign or defence policy might be in an arbitrary way, rather than requiring pension…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]The Israeli Labor and Meretz parties, our sister parties in Israel, have both written to the leaders of the Labour party and to all of us to say that they want divestment from…22 Feb 2022HANSARD SanctionsWill my right hon. Friend give way?22 Feb 2022HANSARD SanctionsIt does sometimes seem that the Government play hot and cold with Russia. They accept donations from Alexander Temerko and others, and then do not provide the fullest sanctions…22 Feb 2022HANSARD SanctionsThe Government have yet to enact the registration of overseas entities Bill, which would require property owners and other business owners to show who the real beneficial owners…22 Feb 2022