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HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyI hope I can give my right hon. Friend time to get to the Benches behind him, as he may wish to intervene on me. I am sure that he will not be noticed in that movement, swift and…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyIndeed. The hon. Lady is right in raising those points. The fact is that this scheme does not fit the requirement any longer, and I think it is, in many senses, quite brutal and…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Government AnnouncementsFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I have just seen the headline in The Telegraph that dropped at just after 10 o’clock this morning which says, “I’ve read the Defence…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Government AnnouncementsMay I say to the right hon. Lady, whom I have known for a little while, that normally when a Speaker upbraids the Leader of the House, the first response of the Leader of the…02 Jun 2025HANSARDStrategic Defence ReviewMark Rutte, the head of NATO, has said in the last few days that all NATO nations must achieve 3.5% of GDP on defence spending. I respect the Secretary of State a lot, and he has…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I just want to remind the House that the Deputy Speaker in the Chair today is also sanctioned by the Chinese Government for her bravery.14 May 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillThe question, however, is this: at the end of it all, how will we know that the supply chains have been correctly declared? If they have not been, it will become a matter of…14 May 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillLords amendment 2B resulted from the work of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, which includes cross-party membership from this House. I see some of its members in the…14 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI am grateful to my neighbour for giving way. If she wants to deliberately not go down that rabbit hole, she should be talking to the Government Front Benchers.13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitOn national insurance!13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and as I have said, we have worked together in the past quite a lot. I will just ask a very simple question. The Government have constantly…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI just want to draw something out. Dynamic alignment is not a small thing; it is huge, because it is rule taking. Can my right hon. Friend imagine our engaging in any other trade…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitIf damage has been done to exporting to the European Union, as I said earlier, that is about the attitude of the European Union to protectionism in the EU. Its trade with us has…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitOf course, that argument was used in reverse on those of us who had had concerns about Europe for 40 years as we were told—exactly to my hon. Friend’s point—that a referendum was…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitIt is good to follow the hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Tom Hayes) and to be reminded of how old he was when I first came here; I hope he stays here as long as well, or maybe I…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI want to make a couple of points on this issue before I give way. We know, and everybody else around the world outside the EU knows, that the EU puts up very hidden tariff…13 May 2025HANSARDConsular Assistance: Statutory Right18. What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on introducing a statutory right to consular assistance.13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitWay less than us, and less than most of the others—it is at the bottom of the scale. I simply say to the Government that the Prime Minister is right to press on defence, to get…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitWith respect to the hon. Gentleman, he has a little while to go before he stands at the Dispatch Box. I am after the Minister, not him, but we will get to that in due course. The…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitHe is not—what a pity.13 May 2025