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HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will do my best within a five-minute limit. Normally, I have only just cleared my throat after minute four, but I will strive within the…28 Mar 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am listening with great care to my right hon. Friend’s remarks about reporting—a concern that, as he knows, I share, having been in office when we made that undertaking, which I…28 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillIt is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron), even though, as is sadly often the case, he ruined some respectable points with absurd…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that offer, which I accept with alacrity. I would like to bring colleagues such as the noble Baroness Stroud, who did so much work on this…22 Mar 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits Against Public ParticipationMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right to identify what has been a stunningly quick recent phenomenon, bearing in mind the exponential increase in cases in the past year alone.…17 Mar 2022HANSARDIran DetaineesI congratulate my right hon. Friend, all the team at the Foreign Office and the legal team who I know will have worked extremely hard, and I thank everybody, including hon.…16 Mar 2022HANSARDLegal AidI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. I am glad that he has followed the excellent recommendations of Sir Christopher Bellamy and I am glad to see the work that I started…15 Mar 2022HANSARD Refugees from UkraineI welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement today, and she knows that I and others have been pushing for tech and biometrics to be used more constructively. On the repurposing…10 Mar 2022HANSARD Institutes of Technology (Royal Charter)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for Institutes of Technology to apply to receive a Royal Charter; and for connected purposes. At first…08 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraine: Urgent Refugee ApplicationsOne way we can rapidly scale up capacity is to use technology. What is my hon. Friend’s view of the ability of Ukrainians with biometric passports to use the UK Immigration: ID…08 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Billrose —07 Mar 2022HANSARDAccountability of Locally Elected RepresentativesAccountability in local government includes participation from the widest corners of our society. As the Disability Policy Centre highlighted in its recent report, “Breaking Down…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillMy right hon. Friend is making an important point. I have looked at these amendments. Is not the best way to achieve his aim to make this offence a strict liability one, which…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI have been listening carefully to the hon. Lady’s speech, and she is making an understandable point. My recollection about the phrase “economic wellbeing” is that it appears, for…07 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineI warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Conservative Members are particularly pleased with her announcement about the humanitarian sponsorship pathway. I have listened…01 Mar 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy right hon. Friend and I worked hard on the issues underpinning the Bill and on the Bill itself. May I press him on Lords amendment 72? I accept that the amendment is defective.…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI have listened with care to my right hon. Friend, and I accept what he says. I am encouraged by what he says about development of the law. May I press him on reporting and…28 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineIt is crystal clear from this act of naked aggression that Putin does not seek Finlandisation on his borders; he seeks, at best, to recreate a Belarus in the south or, at worst,…24 Feb 2022HANSARDChristians and Religious Minorities: IndiaI am honoured to represent one of the largest Goan populations outside India. Of course, they are devout Catholics. Would my hon. Friend agree with the observation that the…24 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]On a point of technical detail, I do not wish to put my right hon. Friend on the spot, but can he assure me that early commencement provisions will be brought into effect with…22 Feb 2022