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HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for correcting the record. Three thousand and more lost their lives in the troubles, and I apologise to the House for getting a zero…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am grateful for the intervention. I have some understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; I was studying for my doctorate in South Africa while it was running and…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am grateful to the Secretary of State for setting out the measures in the Bill. Since the Bill was deemed incoming, I have taken the approach of trying to find common ground, so…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is indeed pre-empting the remaining parts of my speech, which I will get on to as quickly as I can. He is free to catch my eye…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. We are not talking about whether we want to move forward or not; the important thing is that we move forward in the right way.…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillSince the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement there have been long periods in which politics has been functional, and there has been huge progress that had been…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillThe alternative, clearly, was in the Stormont House agreement. Plus there is the additional learning from Jon Boutcher’s work on the Kenova investigations and inquiries, and the…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI will give way to the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith).24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillMy party will be voting against this Bill today because of the equivalence it makes between people who served in the armed forces and those who committed acts of terror and…24 May 2022HANSARDShared Prosperity FundBut is the Secretary of State aware that in the first round of levelling-up funding, Wales applied for and received almost 50% more than was first allocated, and for Scotland the…27 Apr 2022HANSARDShared Prosperity FundThe Northern Ireland Finance Minister has said that the shared prosperity money for Northern Ireland is £90 million short of what was provided by the EU. The Conservative…27 Apr 2022HANSARDShared Prosperity FundWhen?27 Apr 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolThe reason the Secretary of State cannot give a direct answer to the question is because Ministers and the Prime Minister have been telling so many people informally so many…09 Mar 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolThe Prime Minister has told the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson) that negotiations on the protocol have only a 30% chance of success. Does the…09 Mar 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillWhat is holding us back is people continually re-fighting the battles of the past. We need to build a better future, and we can do that only if we are facing the future, unlike…07 Feb 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI will make progress, and then I will take more interventions.07 Feb 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI am going to make some progress, because I am coming to aspects of what we have been commenting on that I think the right hon. Gentleman will want to intervene on more…07 Feb 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI am grateful for the service to the people of Northern Ireland that my hon. Friend has given from the Labour Front Bench over the years. He makes a very pertinent point. I was…07 Feb 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI welcome the Minister to his place in leading on this important Bill, which has taken on great significance due to the resignation of the First Minister of Northern Ireland. I…07 Feb 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillThe consensus that needs building is between political parties in Northern Ireland. The Prime Minister has now been revealed as having been making promises and pledges to parties…07 Feb 2022