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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. In his point about the interaction with the Children Act and Home Office responsibility, this is where we get to the nub of the…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am very grateful. My hon. Friend makes the most important point in this debate. Judges and tribunal chairs are looking for factual reasons on which to refuse applications. I…27 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWill my hon. Friend indulge me?27 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for mentioning human trafficking. I conducted a Court of Appeal case on an unduly lenient sentence, and we got the sentence increased. It is…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAs I listen to this debate I, frankly, get more and more depressed. What we hear is an artificial juxtaposition between an open-door policy of letting everybody into this country…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is right. It is going to be vital that there is clear guidance. We have been here before. When it comes to modern day slavery, there has been a question about the…13 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityTo echo my right hon. Friend’s comments, many of us are surprised and, frankly, deeply disappointed about the particular circumstances that have emerged. This is not about the…06 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service Impartiality(Urgent Question): To ask the Paymaster General if he will make a statement on the impartiality of the civil service in the light of the proposed appointment of the second…06 Mar 2023HANSARD Work of the Law CommissionIt is my pleasure to speak in this slightly early Adjournment debate on the work of the Law Commission. By that, I mean the Law Commission of England and Wales, as opposed to the…01 Mar 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolMy right hon. Friend and the Government are to be warmly commended for their statecraft in achieving a significant deal with significant movement from the EU, which I think now…27 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsI commend my right hon. Friend for grasping the nettle and seeking to negotiate an agreement on the Northern Ireland protocol. Does he share my frustration with the expressed…22 Feb 2023HANSARDAutism and ADHD AssessmentsI listened very carefully to that story. The hon. Gentleman’s mention of the criminal justice system allows me to intervene to say that there are grounds for hope, because 48…06 Feb 2023HANSARDHillsborough Families Report: National Police ResponseI listened with great care to my right hon. Friend’s response to the urgent question, but I have to press him on the independent public advocate point. As my right hon. Friend the…01 Feb 2023HANSARDUrgent and Emergency Care Recovery PlanI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. In particular, I welcome the announcement today of over £26 million of funding to expand the emergency department at Great Western…30 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI draw hon. Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. This issue has been a concern of mine not just for months but for many years. Anybody…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, he was a Minister in the Ministry of Justice when the Bribery Act was brought into force at the end of the 2005 Parliament, and he…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. Jonathan Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, was absolutely right. Indeed, his evidence echoed the Government’s own…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillOf course.25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI was going to spare the blushes of the Minister for Security, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Tom Tugendhat) and the Under-Secretary of State for…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThe right hon. Lady leads me to the thrust of my argument on new clause 5, which is the identification doctrine itself. She deals with the precise point of the doctrine. In the…25 Jan 2023