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HANSARDSyria: Withdrawal of US TroopsMy Lords, will the Minister tell the House what consultation took place from the US side with the British Government, given that we have resources deployed in that area? Secondly,…08 Oct 2019HANSARDBrexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political DeclarationMy Lords, will the Minister address this issue about standards? He seems not to have properly understood, if I may say so, what actually happens. We have higher standards now in…07 Oct 2019HANSARDBrexit: NegotiationsMy Lords, I wonder if the Minister could answer a couple of questions, after one observation, which is that in order to reach a landing zone you have to take off first. The two…03 Oct 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI do not intend to prolong this historical debate, other than to say to the noble Lord that he is falling into the trap that an earlier speaker warned us about—he is being too…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillMy Lords, I support the Bill, which is extremely necessary, timely and rather skilfully drafted. I shall not dwell long on the rather dispiriting debates we had yesterday. I note…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThe figure of £1 billion net that the Minister refers to is frequently contested because it appears to be gross and not to take account of the expenditure that the European Union…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThe noble Baroness asked some questions about the European attitude. The European attitude towards Iran is clear: it wishes to sustain the joint agreement, which stops Iran…05 Sept 2019HANSARDMaritime SecurityWould the Minister perhaps address the part of the Question related to the Persian Gulf, which she managed to pass over in total silence in her original reply? Would she not agree…05 Sept 2019HANSARDSaudi Arabia: Human RightsMy Lords, is the Minister aware of reports that two days ago the Saudi-led coalition launched an air strike in Yemen which killed more than 100 people in a detention camp? If he…04 Sept 2019HANSARDNo-deal UpdateMy Lords, will the Minister just answer a couple of questions on the Statement? First, he referred to the disadvantage that we were going to suffer through the application of the…03 Sept 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeMy Lords, can the Minister confirm whether what I have heard is true: that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has now served the proportion of the sentence—which of course, in our view, she…18 Jul 2019HANSARDDetainee IssuesThe Minister has revealed the Government’s recent steep learning curve on extraordinary rendition, helped along the path by the activity of my noble friend Lord Tyrie. Do the…18 Jul 2019HANSARDNuclear Weapons (International Relations Committee Report)My Lords, the report we are debating today is complex and often a bit on the technical side. All the more credit, therefore, goes to the committee’s chair, the noble Lord, Lord…16 Jul 2019HANSARDUK’s Ambassador to the USAMy Lords, will the Minister accept from someone who spent 10 years at the head of two of Britain’s largest missions that this sort of leak would have made my work completely…08 Jul 2019HANSARDG20 SummitMy Lords, this debate could and perhaps should have taken place a little earlier—ahead of the G20 meeting—but at least we now have the benefit of knowing the outcome of the…08 Jul 2019HANSARDBrexit: Appointment of Joint CommitteeMy Lords, it is surely rather astonishing that, three years after the 2016 referendum, two years after we began to negotiate our exit, and having twice flirted with withdrawing…03 Jul 2019HANSARDEuropean Union–Western Balkans SummitMy Lords, the answer to the question we are debating today—whether the recent EU-west Balkans summit in Sofia has strengthened support for EU enlargement—can be provided quickly,…02 Jul 2019HANSARDArms Exports to Saudi ArabiaCan the Minister now answer the question I asked the other day on the Statement—namely, whether this suspension, while the legal processes work out, covers repeat deliveries under…25 Jun 2019HANSARDExport Licences: High Court JudgmentMy Lords, can the Minister be a little clearer about the impact of the Government’s decision not to enter into new contracts while the court case continues? Can he say whether…20 Jun 2019HANSARDD-day: 75th AnniversaryMy Lords, a commemorative debate, such as we are having today, needs both to look back to the event being commemorated and to situate the lessons from that event in the context of…04 Jun 2019