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HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]I agree that that would be the common-sense way of doing it; I think we are all on the same page on this one. The thing about our new clause is that, without the word “sensitive”,…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]Just to add to my hon. Friend’s list, as we move to electric vehicles we are about to make ourselves even more dependent. Even battery factories in China are turning themselves…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. May I return him to the procurement point about what is national security and what is not? He will know, as I do, that if we go to…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]I am fascinated by the speech my hon. Friend is making, because he is right in one sense about this. We did a report at the Centre for Social Justice about four or five years ago…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]May I be clear? On the question I was asking, and have been asking, the Government have moved, particularly in reference to the national security laws of China, but my key point…13 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI was not planning to take part in this debate, but I was reading through the notes and my concern—returning to the point made by the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon)—is…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI want to follow that up, as one of the points made earlier was important. We know of previous problems where cases have been brought against people and we later discover that the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD New HospitalsI unreservedly welcome this announcement for my Whipps Cross University Hospital, for my constituents and all the other residents. I know secretly, in his heart, the hon. Member…25 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe taskforce on innovation, growth and regulatory reform report produced over 100 recommendations for the Government, but the big case it made was for moving regulation making…24 May 2023HANSARDRohingya Refugees in BangladeshI apologise for intervening. My hon. Friend is talking about countries that could do more. Is not the reality that a big, important country is deliberately undermining any efforts…02 May 2023HANSARD Gambling Act Review White PaperI welcome this announcement, and I pay tribute to the members of the all-party parliamentary group and its leadership, the hon. Members for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) and for…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI will speak to my amendment shortly, I am sure, as will my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) and others, but I want to raise one particular point. The…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend is making a good speech. The reality is that amendment 95 poses a threat. Straightaway, its assumption is that someone goes, rather than that they have to…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI rise to speak to amendment 4, in my name and those of my right hon. and hon. Friends. It is essentially about clause 21. Since tabling it, I have realised that the Government…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillIt is a concern because we have clashing amendments. We know that. The point of this debate is to rectify that. We do not have a lot of time, so the right hon. Member will forgive…26 Apr 2023HANSARDChinese Police Stations in UKMay I bring my right hon. Friend back to the real issue? Investigations into individual transgressions are absolutely fine, and they progress. The problem is that we in this House…19 Apr 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Billrose —28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillCan I gently suggest to my right hon. Friend that the whole purpose of raising this issue was not to bandy the figures? There is a real disregard for some of the real figures…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. She is describing the journey that we need to go on. We should explain to the Government that the whole issue about modern…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful for being called as early as this and I will try to be brief. I want to focus specifically on what my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) has…28 Mar 2023