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HANSARD NATO Accession: Sweden and FinlandOf course this is a hugely welcome announcement and one of the more significant moments in the history of the NATO alliance, not least because Sweden and Finland bring a huge…06 Jul 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Fifth sitting)I am listening very carefully to what the hon. Lady is saying. Is she saying that we should not bring the regulations into force until the EU has brought its regulations into…05 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsI congratulate my right hon. Friend on the leadership that he has shown in the past week and welcome his commitment to our Royal Navy forces being part of NATO. As the Defence and…04 Jul 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q When you say any difference, is that from “normal” food or from organic food? Dr Ferrier : From conventionally produced wheat, for example, for baking a conventional loaf. It…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q Just to finish off on that point, then, obviously worldwide prices of grain and wheat—whichever staple it may be—have grown considerably with the situation in Ukraine. Would…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q Organic food was mentioned earlier. In shops and supermarkets, organic food tends to attract a higher price than other food. Where would the costings of genetically modified…28 Jun 2022HANSARDRail StrikesAs my right hon. Friend said, billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was put into the railway industry and it kept almost everybody in employment. In my constituency, many…15 Jun 2022HANSARD P&O FerriesI warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, which has clarified many technical points. It will be important to analyse how the cruise ship industry accesses British waters…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillFirst, may I offer my condolences for what must be a very difficult time for the hon. Lady and her family? There has been a lot of conversation in which people have said, “You’ve…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillWill my hon. Friend give way?30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am genuinely grateful to my hon. Friend, and I am not intending to speak in the debate. I know that she has deeply held beliefs, which I respect very much. She is giving…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillJust on this point?30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI thank my hon. Friend for what he said, which, with the Cumberlege review, is very important. I urge him again to go further on that review.30 Mar 2022HANSARDRussian Aggression: Support for NATO AlliesSupporting NATO allies is about not just the eastern front and the situation in and around Russia, but the threat from Russian naval activity. Does my hon. Friend agree that the…28 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineI am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for that, because he touches on something very important. The drive to NATO membership accelerated substantially after Russia had…15 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineI am most grateful to my hon. Friend for that, as it leads on to what my hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Dr Spencer) was saying—that the analysis that Putin…15 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineIt may be helpful for my right hon. Friend to know that according to a Sky newsflash, the figure is now more than 100,000.15 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineI accept the political point that the right hon. Gentleman is trying to make, but I am sure he recognises that we were first out of the traps on banking sanctions and that we led…15 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineThe hon. Gentleman just said that the Conservative party brought Putin to power. Will he remind me who was in government in the year 2000?15 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineMay I draw on my right hon. Friend’s point about the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? I am sure that he has seen the Putin essay. Paragraph 38 is really frightening for European security:…15 Mar 2022