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HANSARDRules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) 2019
Civil Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2019I am grateful to hon. Members for their pertinent questions. Let me first address the general point on the right to challenge that the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland made at the…25 Feb 2019HANSARDRules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) 2019
Civil Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2019I would rather complete my remarks and answer questions later, if I may. The instruments allow the Government to apply to the courts to use the closed material procedure where…25 Feb 2019HANSARDRules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) 2019
Civil Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Rules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) 2019 (S.R. (N.I.) 2019, No. 8).25 Feb 2019HANSARDHague ConventionThe Government have decided to opt in to the European Commission’s proposals for Council decisions authorising the acceptance by certain member states of the accession of named…18 Feb 2019HANSARDForeign Affairs Council, February 2019My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs will attend the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on 18 February. It will be chaired by the High…14 Feb 2019HANSARDInformal Foreign Affairs CouncilMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Informal Foreign Affairs Council (Gymnich) on 31 January and 1 February. It was…11 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI welcome the hon. Lady’s welcome, if I may put it that way. I am glad that so many in this House find themselves in agreement. She is absolutely right. If we can apply some more…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaThe House will now be familiar with the plight of Venezuela. It is suffering from economic devastation, starvation and malnutrition. The flight of more than 3 million Venezuelans…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI can only say to the hon. Lady that when she sits down and reads the record of the response that she has just offered the House, she will look upon it with a high degree of…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaPerhaps I can answer my hon. Friend with the words used by a female Venezuelan politician, María Corina Machado, this morning on BBC Radio 4. She said: “On behalf of the…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI am very happy to say that I agree with the hon. Lady in all respects. On humanitarian aid, while I was in Ottawa I spoke at some length to my right hon. Friend the Secretary…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI am sure the House will hope that I do not get into a semantic argument about the use of the words “Marxist”, “socialist”, “Leninist” or “Trotskyist”. I am not as great an expert…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI totally agree with my hon. Friend. This goes back a long way. Indeed, the Leader of the Opposition was an enormous fan of Maduro’s predecessor, Mr Chávez. He went out of his way…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaIf that were to work, we would all absolutely welcome it. Any influence that can be brought to bear should be used, out of basic human decency. This is not an ideological…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI hope that pressure from neighbouring countries can have some effect in getting humanitarian aid in. Looking at the pictures we saw on our screens yesterday, I think it…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI absolutely and totally agree with the hon. Lady, and totally share her decent human concern for the plight of Venezuelans, who are being denied the offer of desperately needed…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI do not wholly agree with my hon. Friend’s suggestion that our influence and efforts amount to so little. I actually think that the UK has managed to establish itself as a very…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI echo the cries behind me and around the House of “Well said.” The hon. Gentleman speaks enormous sense because under the guise of anti- imperialism, those on the far left have…07 Feb 2019HANSARD VenezuelaI fully acknowledge the right hon. Gentleman’s point. He is very wise to be thinking ahead in this way, because the inevitable need for rapid delivery of resources can suddenly…07 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am grateful to hon. Members for their comments and questions. Let me endeavour to answer them in turn. I will respond first to the hon. Member for Heywood and Middleton, on the…05 Feb 2019