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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillClearly the faster the claims can be assessed, the better it is for everybody, as they can be discovered either to be illegal or to be genuine victims. That is the key thing.…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am flattered by the idea of my good offices with the Government, and I will take that at face value—thank you very much indeed. I will speak to the Government about that, and I…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAnd the evidence.28 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyI apologise for intervening on my hon. Friend again, but there is a further extension of that. I pointed out to the Government the other day—to no less a person than the Prime…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyCompanies that import from China can have no excuse for not doing that, because companies such as Oritain can track all the genetic fingerprints. They can tell exactly where a…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyI want to take the Minister back, because I thought he was going to be a bit more explicit about the BNO passport and the situation of Jimmy Lai. May I just elide the two, because…16 Mar 2023HANSARD Health and Disability White PaperI welcome the announcement in the Budget. As my hon. Friend will recall, I wanted to introduce the universal support package alongside universal credit. Its purpose was to…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyI do not.16 Mar 2023HANSARD Security of Government DevicesI say to my right hon. Friend—not to be churlish—so far, so good. Most of our allies have already done this, but I simply make the point to him that he cannot stop there. The…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I am grateful—16 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyI understand. I was about to explain and apologise, Sir Edward, for not having got here earlier: a Minister waylaid me. On Hong Kong, the Americans have now sanctioned about 10…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyI apologise to the hon. Gentleman for intervening on him again. However, I just want to make the point that I have met Jimmy Lai’s family, and the one thing they asked for is that…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRelations with China: Xi Jinping PresidencyDoes my hon. Friend recall that about a year and a half ago on the border of Tibet and India, Chinese troops aggressively tried to push the border back again, and a number of…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI want to make a bit of progress, just in case my right hon. Friend is about to tell me what I have got here in my speech. Forgive me if I just get ahead of it, because everyone…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI absolutely agree with the hon. Lady. I want to talk about what Russian state assets are frozen and what could be frozen. It is important to note that, in Congress right now,…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI agree with the right hon. Lady. If countries do this individually, it will allow terrible regimes to dodge their money around from one financial centre to another, as some will…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureYes, of course. It is a disgusting organisation led by a disgusting individual carrying out disgusting atrocities in Russia. It is also using slave labour in some of these mines.…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI would happily welcome that. It is a very good idea. Ultimately, the war Putin initiated on Ukraine must now be punished in a variety of ways. It is unwarranted aggression…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureOf course, I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman on that. Interestingly, if we manage to criminalise the failure to disclose sanctioned assets, we are halfway there on his…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI agree. These individuals, Abramovich and others, may want this to be done, but somebody has to do it for them, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right to follow the chain down,…14 Mar 2023