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HANSARD Former British Child Migrants: Payment SchemeUnusually, due to important parliamentary business elsewhere, we will have the Opposition spokespeople in a different order. We have heard from Her Majesty’s official Opposition;…26 Feb 2019HANSARDGlobal Education for the Most MarginalisedThe debate can last until 4 o’clock. I am obliged to call the Front Benches no later than 3.27 pm, when the SNP, Her Majesty’s Opposition and the Minister will each have 10…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI congratulate the Home Secretary on overcoming the nonsense about there being separate military and political wings. Hezbollah itself has said: “We don’t have a military wing and…26 Feb 2019HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Right to WorkThe asylum system simply is not working. Between 2010 and 2016, 81,000 asylum applications were either refused or withdrawn, yet only one third of these people were removed and…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsThe Trade Remedies Authority sounds like a good idea, but it is a quango. It used to be a “sound Conservative principle” that we would reduce the number of quangos. I think it was…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Relationships and Sex EducationI have had parents contact me over the weekend, ahead of the debate that is going on in Westminster Hall and the Secretary of State’s statement, saying that they would like to…25 Feb 2019HANSARDEmployment and Support Allowance: UnderpaymentsThe incorrect transfer of people from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance since 2011 has been a big and costly mistake, with over 600,000 cases examined,…25 Feb 2019HANSARDEscalators: Underground Car ParkThis escalator is running all the time yet, compared with the escalator between the main estate and Portcullis House, it is used relatively infrequently. Would it be possible to…21 Feb 2019HANSARDEscalators: Underground Car Park6. What the annual cost is of running the escalators from the underground car park.21 Feb 2019HANSARDFood WasteA lot of food is destroyed before it even lands on the supermarket shelves. Carrots are not straight enough, tomatoes are not round enough. What is my right hon. Friend doing to…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Recall of Women to PrisonsOrder. I have been generous with the hon. Lady, but she is a minute over her time and I have to call the first Front-Bench speaker: Stuart C. McDonald for the SNP.20 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Home Secretary is to be congratulated on his swift and decisive action in removing British citizenship from Shamima Begum, but the fact remains that, of the 900 British…20 Feb 2019HANSARD Recall of Women to PrisonsOrder. The debate can last until 4 pm. I am obliged to call the Front-Bench spokespeople no later than 3.27 pm, and the guideline limits are 10 minutes for the SNP, 10 minutes for…20 Feb 2019HANSARDDementia CareThe best way to help dementia patients is to have joined-up NHS and social care provision. Will my hon. Friend work with the Secretary of State to take advantage of local…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Foreign National Offenders: Prison TransfersThat is about 13% of our foreign national offender population at any one time, so we need at least nine more Huntercombes if we are to deport these people back to the countries…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Foreign National Offenders: Prison TransfersI am listening closely to the Minister. Can he clarify whether the 2,000 a year who are returned under the early removals scheme are then at liberty in their country of origin, or…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Foreign National Offenders: Prison TransfersI beg to move, That this House has considered prison transfers of foreign national offenders. It is a joy to see you in the Chair, Sir Edward. I thank Mr Speaker for granting me…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Foreign National Offenders: Prison TransfersI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I will give way to him again if he knows—I do not expect him to, but if he does—the number of prisoners at HMP Huntercombe. The…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Foreign National Offenders: Prison TransfersThe Minister says that under the EU prisoner transfer agreement there are limited grounds for a country to refuse to take their prisoner back. There are 950 Polish nationals in…19 Feb 2019HANSARD Honda in SwindonMay I applaud the response of the two hon. Members for Swindon, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for South Swindon (Robert Buckland) and my hon. Friend the Member for North…19 Feb 2019