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HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI rise to speak to new clause 5, which stands in my name and is supported by hon. Friends in different political positions across the House. But, before I do so, I want to…18 Jun 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillThese bikes often accelerate fast, and only someone who is used to riding something that can move quickly on two wheels can do that. If not, they will go off the back. In a car,…18 Jun 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillDon’t get excited—it’s not that great! Motorcyclists have to be tested even more than car drivers. There are balancing tests and they have to know everything like that. This is…18 Jun 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillIt is funny that my hon. Friend raises that point, because I was just about to get on to it. I am glad he has pinched my speech, but we are on the same side, so let me thank him…18 Jun 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillMy hon. Friend is right, and I hope the Government will respond to that. However, she will forgive me if I focus on the essence of new clause 5, which is e-bikes. The definition…18 Jun 2025HANSARD Political PrisonersI make this intervention with your indulgence, Mr Western, because I am engaged in another debate in the main Chamber, and I apologise to the hon. Lady because my intervention…18 Jun 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI bow before my right hon. Friend’s greater knowledge in these matters, having headed up the Department. I simply say that for this particular purpose, I agree with her. I am…18 Jun 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillNot a toolmaker?18 Jun 2025HANSARDChinese Embassy Development(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the United States Government’s national security…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Winter Fuel PaymentThe politics of U-turns are not always bad; this is a welcome U-turn by the Government as people will benefit. It would have been helpful for the Minister to have said, “We made a…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChinese Embassy DevelopmentThe US Government, and today the Dutch Parliament, have expressed concerns about sensitive cables under Royal Mint Court. Beijing has a recent history of cutting cables and…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPolice Presence on High StreetsIt is a privilege to be here with you in the Chair, Ms Furniss. I congratulate the hon. Member for Birmingham Erdington (Paulette Hamilton) on securing the debate. Some people…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyIndeed, we are. We are elected—that is what makes us different—to this Chamber to take that on and to change it. We are not bound by a bureaucratic process. We have the power here…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyWe are close to running out of time, I understand that. If I may, I just stress that the failing I am referring relates to the fact that the officer who commanded the garrison met…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyThank you for that, Madam Deputy Speaker—that has given me a few more minutes. The ARAP scheme was introduced to provide a lifesaving path to safety for Afghan nationals who…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyIt is a privilege to rise to move this Adjournment debate about applications to the Afghan relocations and assistance policy, which has come to be known as the ARAP scheme. I…05 Jun 2025HANSARDPolice Presence on High StreetsDoes the hon. Lady recognise that if we make that a criminal offence, those cases will go to the Crown courts, which are all completely blocked? That allows people more time and…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policyrose—05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyIt is powerful that my hon. and gallant Friend is here today to support this debate, given his service in Afghanistan. He will understand more than most the threats that were…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyI agree with those words the Secretary of State for Defence said previously. I hope he was speaking to highlight problems with the Government, as those in opposition must do; I am…05 Jun 2025