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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt will come as no great surprise to the hon. Lady that I do. That brings me to thinking about what we do here. There is a danger that those of us who follow the evidence and…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill“Unconscionable” is one of the more polite and measured terms that we could use about it. I reflect on the fact that when I visited Dungavel in 2007 or 2008, my own children were…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI hope that the Minister gets a hold of Hansard tomorrow, reads what he has just said and, as my mother used to say to me, takes a long, hard look at himself, because the idea…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, because this is so important. There are so few of us now who remember what it was like. When children come here, they are…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe Minister is sitting there shaking his head. If he wants to intervene and tell me I am wrong about this, I am more than happy to take his intervention.28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAnd the evidence. The lack of evidence and impact assessments runs like a silver thread through the Bill. Have the impact assessments been done? Will they ever be done? If they…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright). To pick up on his last point, the truth of the matter is that we do…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe right hon. and learned Gentleman is making an interesting and worthwhile point, but in practical terms, knowing as we do the ruthless efficiency of the Home Office, how likely…28 Mar 2023HANSARD Antisocial Behaviour Action PlanI wonder if the Home Secretary sees the inconsistency between saying in one breath that there is no such thing as petty crime, and then in the next one boasting that crime has…27 Mar 2023HANSARD Energy TrilemmaThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. With a commitment to the principle from the top, everything underneath tends to fall into place. There is another aspect of community…23 Mar 2023HANSARD Energy TrilemmaWhat view does the hon. Gentleman take, then, of the Scottish Government’s current consultation on presumption against future development?23 Mar 2023HANSARD Energy TrilemmaAbsolutely. We make progress on these things incrementally, so if we can get to that situation that would be music to my heart and to the hearts of my constituents. In Orkney, we…23 Mar 2023HANSARD Israel and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe Minister will be aware of the remarks of the Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, saying that the Palestinian village of Huwara should be wiped out. She will also be aware that…23 Mar 2023HANSARD Energy TrilemmaOn the subject of planning and the delays that are associated with it, I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman is aware that, in Canada, the time from consent to…23 Mar 2023HANSARD Energy TrilemmaI congratulate the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Dame Andrea Leadsom) on bringing this subject to the House. Her metaphor of the three-legged stool is a very good…23 Mar 2023HANSARD Energy TrilemmaWill the hon. Gentleman give way?23 Mar 2023HANSARD Energy TrilemmaThe right hon. Lady is making excellent points. She served as Energy Minister, I think, and I am reminded that the best part of 20 years ago one of her predecessors as Energy…23 Mar 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. Every time I speak to those running sub-post offices in my constituency, I hear the same message: the various packages that are available and the business models are simply…23 Mar 2023HANSARD Northern IrelandThe hon. Gentleman is making an important point. For the last quarter of a century, the House has proceeded in relation to the peace process in Northern Ireland—and today is about…22 Mar 2023