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HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q Okay. We all have our own individual lived experience, as you do. Professor Whittle: Yes, and all I can do is encourage people to feel that they can speak up.07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thanks, Professor. It has been really interesting to hear what you have to say. I was particularly struck that you said you had never felt that you had been unable to speak on a…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you accept that other academics might feel that they cannot speak up about topics of interest to them academically—topics that they want to talk about in that broader…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (First sitting)Q Something a lot of people, particularly the Opposition, were asking on Second Reading was whether this is just a total sledgehammer to crack a nut. How big a problem is this…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q Of course. One of the interesting things that I thought that we might agree on was where you talked about wanting to promote what the university is doing in terms of freedom of…07 Sept 2021HANSARDStrategy for Tackling Violence Against Women and GirlsI welcome my hon. Friend’s statement on the strategy for tackling violence against women and girls, and I welcome her personal commitment. I am grateful to her and her ministerial…21 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillNo, I am not giving way to the hon. and learned Lady. I have already given way twice. Far too often we see made-up claims. And then, time after time, they come back with different…20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI do not think that is what the UK Government are proposing at all. The hon. Gentleman opposes offshore detention centres. The Opposition often oppose onshore detention centres.…20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI could not agree more. What I keep noticing today is that Opposition Members seem to be pushing the illegal routes more than the legal routes. We have legal routes into this…20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy constituents are very happy to welcome genuine refugees to the UK. We are taking them now, unlike many constituencies in Scotland where they are not taking asylum seekers, as…20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt is great to see you in your new place today, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am not against immigration at all. In fact, I have signed the forms for many friends who have decided to…20 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy right hon. Friend will no doubt be aware of the campaigners Natasha Rattu and the team at Karma Nirvana, Sara Browne and the team at IKWRO Women’s Rights Organisation, and…15 Jul 2021HANSARD Racist Abuse on Social MediaDoes the Minister agree that this should be a matter where both sides of the House and all parties come together to ensure we put an end to racist abuse once and for all? Will she…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillFirst, I declare my interest as vice-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on Durham University. A few years ago, when I was at the Department for Education as a special…12 Jul 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillThe hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point. I am just pointing out the massive financial ties to foreign Governments, and there is an element of this Bill helping to start to…12 Jul 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillIs not the point that free speech is stifled because people will not even bring these events forward? The hon. Lady must understand from having sat in loads of constituency Labour…12 Jul 2021HANSARDCivil Service: Jobs Outside LondonI welcome the moves to the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson), but the new joint administration just up the road in County Durham has been…08 Jul 2021HANSARDCivil Service: Jobs Outside LondonWhat plans he has to move departmental civil service roles outside central London.08 Jul 2021HANSARDRegimental MuseumsWhat steps the Government are taking to support regimental museums.05 Jul 2021HANSARDRegimental MuseumsI thank the Minister for his recent visit to Stanhope in my constituency where he saw British manufacturing at its best in the tracked vehicles for the armed forces. The Durham…05 Jul 2021