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HANSARDEngagementsQ1. If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 22 May.22 May 2019HANSARDIran Nuclear DealBut it is important to be clear about Iran’s “destabilising influence”, which the Minister euphemistically and diplomatically talked about. This is a regime that has been propping…08 May 2019HANSARD Select Committee MembershipI thank the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), for her speech. Under the circumstances,…08 May 2019HANSARD Saudi Arabia: Mass ExecutionsWhile it is always a pleasure to see the Minister at the Dispatch Box, it really is nonsense that the Prime Minister has not been able to replace the right hon. Member for North…24 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentOkay—well, let us move on. I want to ensure that this House gives proper thanks to all the workers involved, including shipwrights and engineers. Sometimes manufacturers and…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentAbsolutely. Is the SNP’s position that NATO should cease to be a nuclear alliance? If so, how would that make us safer from Russia given what we know about its aggressive stance…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentI have helpfully given the hon. Gentleman, inadvertently, advance notice on the issue of NATO, so let me take him back to that. He talks about the high north. He knows that that…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentThe Secretary of State has been very generous with his time. Does not the incident in Barrow today underline the fact that the shipwrights who are involved in constructing the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentThey do, absolutely. It makes it very hard to imagine why a future Labour Government would continue to pour in the billions of pounds that would be needed to maintain the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentGet on with it!10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentI congratulate the Defence Secretary on bringing such an important debate to the House at this time. Does he recognise that there is a case for going even further and making all…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentIt is a real pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Anne-Marie Trevelyan). I am grateful to her for how she entered into what I think should be the spirit of…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentIt is true that the hon. Gentleman gave a tribute at the very beginning, and then went into why this is all a terrible thing. I have to say that, for a party that believes that…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEuropean CouncilI implore the Prime Minister not to believe that she can run down the clock to the extent that she puts her deal back to the Commons with days to go and think that Members across…25 Mar 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI wonder, Mr Speaker, whether you can imagine the scene at the great Scottish home of the UK’s nuclear deterrent, Faslane naval base, on 29 April 1969, when a crew of submariners…21 Mar 2019HANSARDServices for People with AutismI do not wish to take up much of the House’s time, but has the hon. Lady had a chance to meet my constituent, Deborah Brownson, who has created extraordinary facilities through…21 Mar 2019HANSARD Flooding in CumbriaWill the Minister and her Department keep in mind that, notwithstanding the terrible damage that Storm Desmond did, they should not let that displace the suffering of other…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Flooding in CumbriaI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate and on the powerful case that he is making. It is extraordinary that when the Government can, at the stroke of a pen,…19 Mar 2019HANSARDISIS Members Returning to the UKIt is good to see you in the Chair, Mr Howarth, and it is a pleasure to follow that very measured and balanced opening contribution from the hon. Member for Thornbury and Yate…18 Mar 2019HANSARDISIS Members Returning to the UKThe hon. Gentleman is setting out well the concerns raised in the petition. Does he agree that we ought to look exceptionally at the idea of applying the declared area offence…18 Mar 2019