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HANSARD Governor of Xinjiang: UK VisitI find that response from my hon. Friend, for whom I have the highest respect, to be a very weak turn from the Foreign Office. The Uyghur region in north-west China has been the…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Governor of Xinjiang: UK Visit(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if he will make a statement on the planned visit to the UK of the Governor of…09 Feb 2023HANSARDTurkey and Syria EarthquakeI commend my right hon. Friend for coming so swiftly to the House and for the action that he and the Department have already taken. This would have been a terrible enough set of…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Housing Association Tenants: Complaints MechanismsI congratulate the hon. Member on securing this debate and am grateful to him for doing so, because I share his concerns. L&Q runs the development on the old dog track in my…23 Jan 2023HANSARD Housing Association Tenants: Complaints MechanismsThat sounds good, but the truth is that it does not happen. Instead, landlords are relentless in putting up service charges without much explanation, while tenants are concerned…23 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyThere is a huge amount that can be provided from what are essentially wealthy nations. We are wealthy nations, and when we compare ourselves with where Ukraine is, we are very…19 Jan 2023HANSARDInternational Development CommitteeThis is a remarkable report, and the hon. Lady should be commended for her leadership in this matter. I wonder whether we should be pressing the Government to do more in critical…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyOur inability to call a genocide is not just limited to Serbia. Our biggest problem is that we simply will not and cannot call any action a genocide, even when it demonstrable,…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyTo drag together that point with something my hon. Friend said earlier, surely such timidity also follows failure to have the capability to be more assertive. In other words, now…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI will take your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker, because most of it has already been said—although that has never stopped us from repeating it in this place. It is a real privilege…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Ukraine: UpdateI welcome the statement from my right hon. Friend. Along with the hon. Member for Bradford South (Judith Cummins), I had the privilege just before Christmas of working south of…16 Jan 2023HANSARDIranLet me congratulate my hon. Friend on his leadership in this matter in the past few years and on his having obtained this debate. On proscription—I am co-chair of the all-party…12 Jan 2023HANSARDEngagementsToday, I and others met Sebastien Lai, the son of Jimmy Lai—the ex-owner of Apple Daily who languishes in prison. I remind my right hon. Friend that Jimmy Lai is a British citizen…11 Jan 2023HANSARDResponding to MPs’ Queries: DWP Performancerose —06 Dec 2022HANSARDResponding to MPs’ Queries: DWP PerformanceI apologise to the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant) for not being here earlier, but I did let him know that I was delayed. May I say with the deepest respect, because…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseI have made a series of freedom of information requests about the Government’s possession and use of Hikvision cameras, which security advisers have declared to be a security…01 Dec 2022HANSARDAnti-lockdown Protest in Shanghai: Arrest and Assault of Edward LawrenceIt is a team effort.29 Nov 2022HANSARDAnti-lockdown Protest in Shanghai: Arrest and Assault of Edward LawrenceMay I congratulate our friend the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) on successfully securing this urgent question? He raises a series of very important points. We all…29 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillI am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will not take that long. Before I speak to the amendments in my name and those of other hon. Members, which are quite narrow, I want to address…16 Nov 2022HANSARDPoints of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I raise one specific issue that is directly linked with this? I discovered one day ago—overnight, almost—that the Government…16 Nov 2022