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HANSARDForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeWe are where we are today, so it is only right to wish every success to both sides of this merger as it launches today. I welcome what the Foreign Secretary has said about the…02 Sept 2020HANSARDChinaI very much welcome both the tone and the content of what my right hon. Friend has said today. He is surely right to emphasise the importance of co-operation wherever we can and…20 Jul 2020HANSARD EU Exit: End of Transition PeriodI am very glad that my right hon. Friend, with his acknowledged administrative flair, is responsible for this. I want to raise an esoteric point, which has been brought up by…13 Jul 2020HANSARDSale of Arms: War in YemenThe Minister knows that I am a longstanding critic of the policies towards Yemen of the Saudi coalition, which the British Government continue to support, but it is my purpose…13 Jul 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceI am very pleased to hear what my hon. Friend says about the absolute importance of ICAI. He talks about the spending being in the national interest. May I make it clear that many…09 Jul 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceI draw the attention of the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I start by making it absolutely clear that I regard the decision to dismantle DFID…09 Jul 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceThe House will understand why I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me an extra minute, but I have learned during my 30 years in Parliament that, in politics, there is…09 Jul 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceI am sorry, but I cannot. Thirdly, DFID’s skill is money. With the best will in the world, the Foreign Office is not that; although it is populated by the most brilliant…09 Jul 2020HANSARDGlobal Human Rights Sanctions RegimeMany of us on the Back and Front Benches, especially my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, have been working for some time on the Magnitsky measures, and I congratulate him…06 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillYes, the extractive industry transparency initiative, which has been led by a former Member of this House, Clare Short, for some time, did a huge amount of good as, of course,…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillThe hon. Member is absolutely right. I think two very good examples are Pakistan, where British techniques and expertise have helped the Pakistan authorities to raise more tax…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillThere is an important principle: while commercial confidentiality should not be compromised, we should move to greater transparency to tackle the problems that lie behind what the…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI draw the House’s attention to my interests, which are set out clearly in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I rise to speak to new clause 33, which was tabled by the…01 Jul 2020HANSARDHong Kong National Security LegislationI very much welcome what my right hon. Friend has said about the Magnitsky proposals, on which he and I have worked together in the past, and I also very much welcome what he said…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way; he is being very generous. This is an ingenious argument that he is putting to the House about restructuring, and it…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillThe Minister is getting to the meat of the matter in what he is saying now, but while he rightly extols the virtues of some very good companies that he has named, which…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI completely agree with what my right hon. Friend is saying. Not only is his point correct, but I have found out, as a result of tabling a question to the Home Secretary, that…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy hon. Friend makes an extremely reasonable point. I am sure that the Minister, who will have listened to the reasonable points that have been made on both sides of the House,…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Civil Service AppointmentsI served on the National Security Council in the first two and a half years after it was set up—with my right hon. Friend, in fact—and it does seem to me that it is clearly…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI have listened carefully to what has been said by Opposition Members, and I am not persuaded that the Bill is anything other than a good piece of legislation on the whole. The…30 Jun 2020