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HANSARDChildhood Cancers: ResearchIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell, and to follow my Welsh colleague, the hon. Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi), who moved the motion on behalf of the…07 Dec 2020HANSARD Remembrance, UK Armed Forces and SocietyIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones),who speaks tirelessly in support of our military. I am compelled to mention the moving speech by my…11 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI am just about to say that they, too, should be afforded certainty that the unique operational pressures placed upon them will be taken into account. Prosecution decisions are…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck), who is a fellow patron of the women veterans charity Salute Her, part of Forward Assist and the…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Animal Welfare (Sentencing) BillIt is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley South (Mike Wood) and hear of Bella, his office dog. I concur; she was robbed. I rise to support the Bill proposed…23 Oct 2020HANSARD Animal Welfare (Sentencing) BillI absolutely concur. I am pleased that we are all in the Chamber today to have this debate, particularly on the Government Benches. Today, we all condemn cruelty to animals. The…23 Oct 2020HANSARD Women’s Rugby: Government SupportI thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue. A year ago, Wrexham rugby club set up the Valkyries rugby cluster, which recruits young women from across north-east Wales. It is…13 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q And you were ignored, I take it. Judge Blackett: I was reassured that the investigations were taking time, more evidence was needed, some cases were coming, and I needed to keep…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you not think you would have had the responsibility—perhaps moral if not professional—to raise any alarms or concerns you may have had? Judge Blackett: I constantly raised…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q Charles, on Second Reading, three times I heard Opposition Members say that the British Legion is categorically against the Bill. I have heard it once in this Committee already.…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q I am glad to hear that. Every Bill will never suit every person in every circumstance—that is just not possible—but would you not agree that the Bill makes great advancements to…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q Just going back to my point, a Bill will not cover every person in every circumstance, but this has to be a lot better than where we are now. Charles Byrne: Is that a way of…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q No, I am not saying that at all. Charles Byrne: The answer is the same: if there is good being done, we should aim to make that good go as far as possible and not exclude those…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q The six-year longstop, the point of knowledge or diagnosis—that is the only concern that the British Legion has? Charles Byrne: That is the concern that we have brought forward,…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Thank you, Charles. By the way, your new TV poppy appeal is very good. I saw it this morning. Charles Byrne: Thank you.08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q Hello General. To touch on one of Liz’s initial questions, please could you expand on your questioning of the legitimacy of the Bill and on why you think it works outside of…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q Do your reservations also include the presumption against prosecution? General Sir Nick Parker: Yes.08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q Is there any reason why? General Sir Nick Parker: Because, surely, for those serious things, we should all be treated the same. There is no need to introduce an additional…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Q I suppose my answer to that is that I might go to Tesco and work behind a counter, or I might go to the frontline and put myself in front of a round. They are not equal. General…08 Oct 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Third sitting)Under the International Criminal Court’s article 53, there is a similar provision where you can exclude from prosecution, as there is here with the presumption against…08 Oct 2020