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HANSARDTrade Deals: Environmental StandardsThank you, Mr Speaker. I am also grateful to the Secretary of State for her welcome. I look forward to our debates on the crucial importance of trade to our national economy and,…02 Dec 2021HANSARDTrade Deals: Environmental StandardsThe Government have not made an inch of progress on green trade in any of the bilateral trade agreements signed since 2019, so why should we put faith in that now? The Board of…02 Dec 2021HANSARDEnglish Channel Small Boats IncidentI am grateful to the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of it. Yesterday’s human tragedy in the channel was the most awful of reminders of the dangers of…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI thank the Home Secretary for the letter she sent me on Friday, detailing her intention to bring forward this proscription motion and the reasons for its being considered at this…24 Nov 2021HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI agree with my hon. Friend that guidance is vital and I hope that the Minister will address that point when he winds up. As the Minister stated, the decision brings the United…24 Nov 2021HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small BoatsSome 25,700 people have risked their lives in these most dangerous shipping lanes this year alone. As the Home Secretary knows, the Government have already spent more than £200…22 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you, Mr Speaker. The Government deal with the French authorities is failing. The Government have closed down safe routes, such as the Dubs scheme, and they have cut the aid…22 Nov 2021HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small Boats(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the channel crossings in small boats.22 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the appointment of the chair of the inquiry set up following the terrible Sarah Everard case, but I say to the Home Secretary: put it on a statutory footing now. The…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Security UpdateI thank the Home Secretary for the advance briefing before the statement and for the time that I know she has taken to speak to many Members of the House on an individual basis.…20 Oct 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI first met Sir David Amess when I entered this House in 2015 and he approached me, as a new Member, to ask how I was and how I was settling in. That conversation captured the…18 Oct 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful for that answer. The awful murder of Sir David follows the dreadful murder of our friend Jo Cox, an attack on my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSalisbury Incident 2018: UpdateI am grateful to the Home Secretary for her statement and for giving me advance sight of it. I am also grateful to the Minister for Security and Borders, the right hon. Member for…21 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan PolicyI thank the Minister for her statement, and for advance sight of it. I also thank her for the briefing that was given to me by her and the Security Minister, and I welcome her to…13 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillWith the greatest respect, if the hon. Gentleman had listened to me, he would realise they were not my words I was quoting—it was Waheed Arian himself I was quoting. The…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. In reality, this is a Bill based on an immigration plan that is harmful. Just listen to the story of Waheed Arian, now an NHS doctor, who…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIf the hon. Member wants to hear about statistics, try these: the share of applications that received an initial decision within six months fell from 87% in 2014 to 20% in 2019.…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI will come to that point in a moment because I have deep concerns about that. The right hon. Lady passed, as has already been pointed out, the legislation on modern slavery, but…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillWith great respect to the right hon. Lady, she was making the point about late filing of evidence, and I was making the point in response—I will come on to it in a moment, and I…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThe hon. Gentleman says that that is disgusting, but it is what is in the Bill. I suggest he takes it up with the Home Secretary. The Bill is wrong, it benefits nobody and it…19 Jul 2021