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HANSARD Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI have set out the security and geopolitical importance of the treaty many times in this place, and would therefore have appreciated the opportunity today to engage with detailed…20 Oct 2025HANSARDVocational Training: Under-19sLast week, I met representatives of Centrepoint. They highlighted that some 2,800 young people in my constituency are not in education, employment or training, despite having…20 Oct 2025HANSARD Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillThere is already a barrage of misinformation coming from the Opposition, and I am not going to invite any more of it to flow across the Floor. There are a multiplicity of bad…20 Oct 2025HANSARD Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI thank the hon. Member for his intervention. The Bill has been before the House already, and at the moment we are discussing the amendments that have been tabled. The hon. Member…20 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillBefore the Lord Chancellor finishes, I want to welcome and highlight the measures in the Bill that deal with offenders, particularly clauses 7 to 10, which respond directly to…16 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI come back to the right hon. Lady’s point about security. I must have misread our colleagues in the US Department of Defence when they told Defence Committee members, some of…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill the right hon. Member give way?09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillIf the right hon. and learned Gentleman is willing to give explanations, will he please explain why his party chose to start the engagement but has at no point explained the…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill my hon. Friend give way on that point?09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillNot yet. Allied naval, aviation and communications assets will be able to protect UK interests across a vast area of the western Indian ocean and beyond throughout the next…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Billrose —09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill the Minister place that £101 million in context? Perhaps the US or other nations have entered into such agreements. Will he make reference to the value for money that we…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on his recent appointment. It is important, right at the outset, that we understand that there has been almost no change in position. I refer him to…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill the right hon. Member give way?09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Billrose—09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI did not receive a single response from any of them, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have mentioned colonial history, which is going to get some Conservative Members very excited and…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill the right hon. Member explain how UNCLOS enables intelligence activity, and then perhaps why we have represented the views that we have on the basis of our experience and…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill the right hon. Member please explain, then, what the limits of UNCLOS are on the sovereign space—sea, land and air—around Diego Garcia, as they stand and as they are extended…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am proud to speak in favour of the Bill. I do so as a proud former member of our armed forces, having devoted 24 years of my life in uniform to…09 Sept 2025