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HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you, High Commissioner, for taking the time to join us. To follow up on my colleague’s question about cost, I was looking through some figures from your Department of Home…23 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Second sitting)Q Clearly, we are all concerned and admire your commitment to stopping these dangerous crossings and the risks at which they put people. Our issue as a Committee is to determine…21 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Second sitting)Does Zoe have anything to add to that? Zoe Gardner: Lucy covered it perfectly.21 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (First sitting)Q May I ask one further question on a different point? The Bill introduces a new element to the asylum system in the consideration of late evidence, and it requires a reduction in…21 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Second sitting)Q I fully accept the risk of the channel. Your general conclusion is that really we need to more to tackle these problems upstream, I think you said, and the more that we can do…21 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Second sitting)Q Both witnesses have expressed concerns that the Bill’s objectives will not be achieved by the measures that it includes. The Home Office itself goes further in its own impact…21 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (First sitting)Q But from your discussions, you have had no sense of what schemes the Home Office might have in mind beyond that? I ask that because it is a fairly fundamental issue on which the…21 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (First sitting)Q Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the Red Cross would view itself as a close partner of the Home Office and in a trusted relationship to deliver on the ambitions of whatever…21 Sept 2021HANSARD Brexit: OpportunitiesThe Paymaster General is right—Brexit is now a fact—but clearly, the Government see advantage in keeping the grievance going. The EU remains our most important trading partner. It…16 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsTwo of my constituents, a Danish national and a British citizen with Danish residence, were denied boarding a BA flight by the airline’s staff because they did not accept my…09 Sept 2021HANSARDTigrayI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for securing the debate and for her comprehensive description of both the scale and the brutality of the conflict, but one issue that she has not…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe Prime Minister today was supposed to be announcing a social care plan, but there was no vision, no detail and no real sense of understanding the complex web of issues that…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Support for CarersIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Ed Davey) on securing the debate and on his…22 Jul 2021HANSARD Building Safety BillThe debate on this Bill is framed by the Prime Minister’s promise that “no leaseholder should have to pay for the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects that they did not…21 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillAlbeit remotely, may I join colleagues in saying what a pleasure it is to welcome you to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker? I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak about the…20 Jul 2021HANSARDYemenAfter seven years of violence, suffering and hardship, there is still no end in sight, as the Minister acknowledges. The UN has warned that Yemen faces the worst famine the world…20 Jul 2021HANSARDYemenWhat recent assessment he has made of the prospects for a negotiated peace settlement in Yemen.20 Jul 2021HANSARDEconomic Recovery from Covid-19: Climate ActionThe success of the UK presidency requires leadership at home. The Government have pledged to consider the Climate Change Committee’s recommendation for near-zero emission iron ore…14 Jul 2021HANSARDEconomic Recovery from Covid-19: Climate ActionWhat steps the Government are taking ahead of COP26 to promote (a) climate action and (b) a green recovery from the covid-19 pandemic.14 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIt is clearly right to take further steps towards unlocking, but it is not the all-or-nothing choice that the Secretary of State has suggested and vaccines are not the only tool…12 Jul 2021