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HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)On the justice system review and its relationship to the Bill, in answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North West last week about Major Campbell’s 17…14 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)I will not be withdrawing the amendment. Question put , That the amendment be made.14 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)Does the Minister not accept that the very word “alleged” creates ambiguity within the law and, if anything, creates a barrier? Our amendment would give the clarity that he and…14 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)I rise to speak to the amendment for a very specific reason. It concerns the word “alleged” in the Bill. The Government, in bringing forward the Bill, have sought to provide…14 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 14, in clause 1, page 2, line 2, leave out “the day on which the alleged conduct took place” and insert “the day on which the first investigation relevant…14 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that the ranks, as opposed to the chain of command, would be best served by an acceptance of the new clause, because it gives clarity and…14 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)In reality, the right hon. Gentleman wants to remove bureaucracy because justice delayed is justice denied, whether someone is the accuser or the accused. His new clause seeks…14 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fifth sitting)When the hon. Member for Islwyn was introducing the amendment, he noted that it was not meant to take on board issues in relation to fully autonomous systems. Nevertheless, it…14 Oct 2020HANSARDUK Internal Market Bill: DiplomacyWhat recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK Internal Market Bill on the effectiveness of UK diplomacy.13 Oct 2020HANSARDUK Internal Market Bill: DiplomacyThe way that the Government have used the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill to allow the United Kingdom to abrogate an international treaty in recent weeks has seen the UK take…13 Oct 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillMy constituents clearly live in a very different country from the hon. Member for Bracknell (James Sunderland). I declare an interest, as it seems that everyone else is doing, in…23 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThe hon. Gentleman mentions the seriousness of the issue; it is so serious that the British Government’s senior Scottish Law Officer, the Advocate General, has resigned. Does the…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillOn the reputation of the United Kingdom and the identity of Irishness and Britishness in Northern Ireland, why was it up to Emma DeSouza to drag the right hon. Member’s Government…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillIt is good to follow the hon. Member for Gillingham and Rainham (Rehman Chishti). I congratulate him on the moral choice of resigning from the Government, although I remind him…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillFrom a historical perspective, my hon. and learned Friend may agree that we need to go back to the 15th or 16th century, because this is a modern-day English reformation that…21 Sept 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: UK Legal ObligationsMr Speaker, “Whatever form it takes, Brexit cannot be allowed to imperil the Good Friday Agreement, including the seamless border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland”.…08 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe journey of Munira Mirza from the pages of the Srebrenica-denying Living Marxism and the Revolutionary Communist party into the heart of No. 10 has not gone unnoticed. On…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsIf he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 17 June.17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusThe other day, the Prime Minister said on morning television, “perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population…09 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Armed Forces Act (Continuation) Order 2020It has been mentioned that there would be no armed forces if we did not have this discussion and debate tonight. I think we would still have the Atholl Highlanders, which—as the…09 Mar 2020