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HANSARDSudanThe ambassador is entitled to return to the UK either on diplomatic business or, indeed, on leave if that is appropriate. I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the second most senior…24 Apr 2023HANSARDSudanI thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I assure him, having spent quite a lot of time with the men and women who are manning the crisis centre at the Foreign Office, that it…24 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesI thank my hon. Friend very much for her comments and her support for the statements of condolence across the House today. These discussions take place all the time. I can tell…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesYes.20 Apr 2023HANSARD Human Rights Protections: PalestiniansI am trying to make a constructive speech, and I hope the hon. Lady will allow me to make my points in my own way. If she reads carefully what I have said in Hansard , I think she…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Human Rights Protections: PalestiniansThe right hon. Gentleman, my constituency neighbour, underestimates the effect of today’s debate. What is said in the House of Commons will be read. He and I have focused on four…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Human Rights Protections: PalestiniansI am grateful to the hon. Member for Dundee West (Chris Law) for securing the debate, and l am also grateful for the contributions made by all Members this afternoon. I will try…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesWith your permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I know the whole House will join me in condemning…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesMy right hon. Friend, with his usual incisiveness, poses an important and interesting question, but the position of the UK Government is precisely as I have set out, and I hope…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesFirst, I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments about the Dee family, which I am sure will be warmly welcomed across the House. I also thank him for the measured comments he…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesI thank my hon. Friend very much for expressing so eloquently his condolences to the Dee family, and I know of the links with Hendon about which he spoke. We condemn all attacks…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesI thank the SNP spokesman for his comments. The wide Dee family will draw strength, at a dreadful time, from the solidarity that the House is showing towards them. The hon.…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesI cannot give the hon. Gentleman details of very recent discussions that have taken place, but he is right in his analysis of the issue, and the British Government are doing…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesMy hon. Friend takes a great interest in humanitarian issues as well as in issues affecting Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. On the specific issue that she raises,…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe right hon. Gentleman is right on the second point that he makes. I should explain to him that while his description of the governance arrangements is entirely correct, we do…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe right hon. Gentleman, who has dealt with these matters in government and understands them well, makes the case with impeccable clarity.20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesMy hon. Friend draws attention to the point I made in my statement that Iran is a malign actor in the region, in the very way that he sets out. As he knows, the IRGC is a…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe hon. Gentleman invites me to condemn violence on one side and not on the other. The point I want to make is that in order to advance to the objectives that are commonly held…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe hon. Lady is right to echo the point I made in my statement about the levels of violence. We do everything we can to try to see that they are diminished, and we are committed…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe hon. Gentleman will understand that we press the Israeli Government to abide by international law on all relevant occasions. In respect of my own discussions, I should mention…20 Apr 2023