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HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman ReportI want to ask the right hon. Member about resolution. Given the maladministration and the points made by the ombudsman, the conclusion needs to happen through political choice.…16 May 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman ReportWill the hon. Gentleman advise the House, as well as WASPI women in West Dunbartonshire and across the UK, on whether one of those recommendations will be for a ministerial…16 May 2024HANSARDUkraine and GeorgiaThose of us on the SNP Benches join the cross-party support, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) on securing the urgent question. To follow the…15 May 2024HANSARD Defence Personnel Data BreachI thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of the statement. There was not really much to disagree with in the questions from the shadow Defence Secretary, but I will…07 May 2024HANSARD DefenceI am glad to be in the Chamber for this debate. It is an important debate; those of us on the Defence Committee would probably say that we do not have them often enough. I wanted…07 May 2024HANSARD DefenceLet me come to that in a second, but in common parlance, I think they are always called the “ordinary ranks”— [ Interruption. ] The Minister may want to listen for a wee second.…07 May 2024HANSARD DefenceI am grateful for that opportunity, but I have previously declined it for various reasons. I will get into that in a wee bit more detail and, although the hon. Member may not…07 May 2024HANSARD DefenceI recall the hon. Gentleman chairing the Armed Forces Bill Committee during the pandemic, when we heard some really profound and challenging evidence. I do not think that he and I…07 May 2024HANSARD DefenceOne of the points that we have made previously in the Defence Committee concerns support for the Russian military archive, which was eventually moved to Shrivenham. Is it not…07 May 2024HANSARDDefence SpendingThe Secretary of State clearly has a herculean task to find £75 billion, so let us seek clarity on where it may be found. I welcome the investment if it is in capability. I agree…24 Apr 2024HANSARDHospice FundingI appreciate that funding models are different across the UK, but the hon. Gentleman has raised a point that I have a bit of concern about. There are two hospices in my…22 Apr 2024HANSARDHospice FundingI want to push the hon. Gentleman on the point I made to the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate, because I have heard this notion of symbiosis with the NHS, but they are two very…22 Apr 2024HANSARD Afghan Refugees: Deportation from PakistanIt is only right and proper that the hon. Member for North East Fife (Wendy Chamberlain) has brought forward this urgent question today, so congratulations to them. I note that my…17 Apr 2024HANSARDArmed Forces Readiness and Defence EquipmentI am very grateful to the right hon. Member for making those points, but I would push him on the issue of an armed forces representative body. Is it something that he and his…21 Mar 2024HANSARDArmed Forces Readiness and Defence EquipmentWell, this was a debate that certainly went in directions I never thought it would go. It is always a privilege to follow the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck), who…21 Mar 2024HANSARDArmed Forces Readiness and Defence EquipmentI agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I am glad that his party has joined mine—I think; I am not sure whether this is still a Labour manifesto commitment—in recommending the…21 Mar 2024HANSARD Hong Kong Security LegislationI thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for securing the urgent question. Let me try to get some answers from the Government about a…20 Mar 2024HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On 7 January 2020, my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South (Stewart Malcolm McDonald) led an Adjournment debate in this House on the…19 Mar 2024HANSARDSt Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UKThe right hon. Lady has stolen a bit of my thunder. I totally agree, and for a specific reason: the complexity of our relationships. I go back to my other family, in County Mayo,…14 Mar 2024HANSARDSt Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UKTapadh leat, a Cathaoirleach. I am delighted to participate in this debate, which was secured by the hon. Member for Salford and Eccles (Rebecca Long Bailey), and I thank them for…14 Mar 2024