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HANSARD UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership AgreementI, too, sit on the International Trade Committee, and our report outlined the positives in this deal. There were also many things we just could not quantify, because the…25 Nov 2020HANSARD UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership AgreementWill the Secretary of State give way?25 Nov 2020HANSARDEU Trade Agreements: Rollover with non-EU CountriesWhat recent progress she has made in securing the rollover of EU trade agreements with non-EU countries.19 Nov 2020HANSARDEU Trade Agreements: Rollover with non-EU CountriesWe learn from The Telegraph that the Minister has rejected the Ghana deal because it was a “a substantial departure” from the EU deal, but she says that the Japan deal goes far…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI have a number of constituents whose landlords have backtracked on their word, having said that they would give rent relief but now saying that it is only a rent deferral. They…19 Nov 2020HANSARDIntegrated ReviewIn the mid-‘90s, the UK was one of the largest contributors to UN peacekeeping missions in terms of troops and personnel. Now we have only 600 personnel worldwide whom we…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19This is a crisis of a proportion that we could never have imagined, but it seems that cronyism has proliferated in a number of recent appointments by this Government. Of course,…18 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillDoes the hon. Member share my worry that potentially putting our armed forces up against the International Criminal Court could be the beginning of a path to undermining the Court…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillWe all agree that the aims of the Bill are noble, and that the idea of revolving investigations or a life in investigatory purgatory, never knowing when a vexatious investigator…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillThe hon. Gentleman, who is a good Member and a friend, is making a really interesting argument, but I fail to understand how it has anything to do with the Bill. How has limiting…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy right hon. Friend does not have to if he does not want to. Will the passing of the Bill mean that civilians working for the MOD down the road will end up having, in effect,…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEU Exit: Negotiations and the Joint CommitteeMy very first question in this place was to ask the then Prime Minister whether she would consider separately negotiating access to Erasmus and Horizon, which did not need to be…19 Oct 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillOn people trying to flush out covert agents by getting them to do things that are on this supposed list, is the hon. Member therefore saying that the Human Rights Act 1998 does…15 Oct 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillWhatever we think of the progress later on of the Bill, we have to agree that judicial oversight is really important. When a Labour Government get in, we will hopefully move…15 Oct 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillIs the Minister saying that criminals will not be able to read the Human Rights Act 1998 to realise that these crimes are not permitted to be authorised, or is he saying that…15 Oct 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsEighty-two arrest warrants against sitting and former mayors; 200 members of the pro-Kurdish and pro-peace HDP party currently in detention; and now even MPs of the CHP, the…13 Oct 2020HANSARDUniversal Basic IncomeYesterday the Prime Minister responded to me when I asked what someone on minimum wage, who will have a third of their wage cut, should do. He said, “Oh, that’s the point of…13 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYou and I, Mr Speaker, and the Prime Minister could probably live on a one-third pay cut on our pay. Someone on the minimum wage, with a one-third pay cut on their pay, cannot…12 Oct 2020HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. On Monday, I suggested that you and your office had denied me a speaking slot in the debate we were discussing. I had of course put in the request…07 Oct 2020