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HANSARDMiddle EastI very much welcome the Prime Minister’s statement today, and I thank him, his ministerial team and their advisers for all the work that has been done over many months to get us…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI hope the hon. Lady does not mind if I call her my hon. Friend. I thank her for her question. I think it fair to say that the issues we looked at challenged us all. Many of us…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me, as the impartial Chair of the Committee, for not criticising or commenting on the failings or otherwise of the SNP, whose Members are…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityTo be perfectly frank, I cannot answer the hon. Member’s question because we did not take evidence on the situation elsewhere in the UK and were particularly focused on Scotland,…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI thank my hon. Friend for that question. She is absolutely right: it cannot be one thing or another. A holistic attitude must be taken towards eradicating drug misuse. Given…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that public confidence in the facility is paramount if it is to have a future—and even for the duration of the three-year pilot.…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. Many reports have been done on international facilities, which he might want to bring to the attention of his colleagues in Belfast.…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI thank my hon. Friend for his question. We did not look closely into that issue; if someone is going to inject drugs, they will buy them and take them almost immediately, so the…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI thank my hon. Friend for that question. It is important to understand that, although prosecutorial discretion is offered by the Lord Advocate, the Thistle is quite limited in…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI am very grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for affording me the opportunity to make a statement on the publication of the Scottish Affairs Committee’s third report of…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian AccessIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (Melanie Ward) for an excellent contribution that…10 Sept 2025HANSARDDefence Industrial StrategyOn Thursday, I had the pleasure of visiting BAE Systems in my constituency with the Prime Minister. I spoke to many of the apprentices there, who are looking forward to a very…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Palestine Action: Proscription and ProtestsDoes the Minister agree that the continued mass arrest of peaceful protesters, many of whom are protesting about the proscription of Palestine Action but would not for a moment…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI thank the Foreign Secretary very much for the action taken by him and his colleagues to enable the safe passage of scholars to the UK, a number of whom hope to come to the…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI was struck by the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Dame Meg Hillier) about the importance of good and appropriate legal advice for people…01 Sept 2025HANSARD UkraineThe Secretary of State will be aware that the Clyde is a wide river that straddles the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South West (Dr Ahmed) and mine, so I…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI thank my right hon. Friend for his statement, and I note the agreement reached with the 30 other nations. However, as we know, Israel has already rejected it. It seems to me…21 Jul 2025HANSARD Strategy for ElectionsWill my hon. Friend reflect on the fact that my experience of being elected under three electoral systems—additional member system, single transferable vote and first past the…17 Jul 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseResidents in areas of my constituency have raised the poor postal service they have been receiving in recent weeks, which has led to their not receiving important financial…17 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Billrose —09 Jul 2025