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HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy right hon. Friend is right. He is building on the frustration that I had. That is not a criticism of Ministers. The way in which the Home Office was working did not seem to…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI agree with my right hon. Friend that we are not just another public agency. This is Parliament and this place has a particular status, position, responsibility and…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am inclined to be kind to my hon. Friend. It is probably not an either/or, but an and. He and the Government will want to achieve not only a further spur in dealing with current…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWhere there is a will there is a way. I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I do not want to detain the Committee unduly lengthily today—some would perhaps say…16 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesThe House should be in no doubt that conflating issues relating to Israel and Hamas is not a mature way to look at the problem that the Prime Minister had to consider last week.…15 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon ScandalI warmly welcome the statements from the Prime Minister and from my hon. Friend. I thank my hon. Friend for his hard work, and I am also grateful for the work of other Ministers,…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemI know that a letter was sent to the permanent secretary. I could not find a reply—the Committee may not have had one—and I suggest that civil servants in the Home Office need to…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemIt is a pleasure to follow the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson), who addressed the motion tabled in the…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemOn that point, my hon. Friend will know, as I do from my experience with foreign national offenders, how difficult it is for countries of origin to accept people back. Very often,…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemI am hugely grateful to my hon. Friend, a parliamentarian of great experience. He is absolutely right to make that point. I urge consideration of that course upon my hon. and…09 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn a perfect world, the victims of the Horizon IT scandal would have their cases individually assessed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the Court of Appeal, but we are…09 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsAnybody who cares about the interests of justice in our country will be horrified not just at the nature of these miscarriages of justice, but at the sheer scale of them. Does…08 Jan 2024HANSARDStorm HenkI thank my hon. Friend for his statement and for very promptly triggering the flood recovery network. I note that there are a number of local authorities adjacent to mine in…08 Jan 2024HANSARDTrial of Jimmy LaiA regime such as this has to be judged not on its words, but on its deeds. In its systematic demolition of the rule of law and now of the independence of the legal profession…18 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI warmly welcome the new disabilities Minister, as I know she shares my passion for closing the autism employment gap. Will she work with me, as we reach the closing stages of my…18 Dec 2023HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rhondda (Sir Chris Bryant), and I was pleased to hear his strong invocation of the fallacy that we live in a separation of powers…12 Dec 2023HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillContrary to mythology within the Conservative party, my hon. Friend and I agree on many of these key issues. He and I would have legislated over the Evans decision about the…12 Dec 2023HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy right hon. Friend makes the point about foreign courts, but what about domestic courts? Is there not a danger that, in pursuing quite stringent measures in this Bill, we are…12 Dec 2023HANSARD People with Learning Disabilities: EmploymentI am grateful to the Minister and the departmental officials who are here for their close work on the independent review. I am glad that he has made the point that, although we…04 Dec 2023HANSARD Victims and Prisoners BillI signed new clause 19 because, having spent many years as defence and prosecution counsel in such cases, I know the importance of getting to the truth and looking at previous…04 Dec 2023