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HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillFollowing the intervention by my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia Kearns), I wish to be assured on one point. Do the Government genuinely believe that the…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI am grateful to be called to speak so early, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to focus my comments on new clause 3, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillThe hon. Lady is right that a lot of Hong Kong citizens have come to the UK, and I embrace them all. I set up the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, which has co-chairs on the…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Protocol: First Treasury CounselHappy birthday, Mr Speaker. In response to the comments of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buckland), the reality is that until the Bill…09 Jun 2022HANSARDStatutory Gambling LevyIt is always a privilege to serve under your suzerainty in these matters, Mr Betts. I am sorry that there is not a whole bank of media here to report this important debate.…07 Jun 2022HANSARDStatutory Gambling LevyWill my hon. Friend define what “coming weeks” means? When is a coming week no longer a coming week? Is it two or three weeks ahead, or four or five? A little definition would…07 Jun 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI served in Northern Ireland, and I do not feel in any degree that there was equivalence between what I was doing and what terrorists were doing. Can I ask the hon. Gentleman to…24 May 2022HANSARDXinjiang Internment Camps: Shoot-to-Kill PolicyI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (Ms Ghani) on gaining the urgent question and you, Mr Speaker, on having the foresight to grant it. I say to my hon. Friend…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI hesitate to distract the Minister from his theatrical memories—he is doing very well—but I would like to take him back to the Bill for a split second. I mean no offence, of…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI tried to raise this point with the Leader of the Opposition and I pose it to anybody: what do people want? Do they want the knowledge of what happened or do they want the…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI apologise, but I want to develop this point. Is the Bill not, in fact, about changing and tightening the process, if knowledge is the key element, to make it happen in an…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI rise to speak in this debate because I have had a long interest in Northern Ireland. I served in Northern Ireland in 1975. I remember the billboards at Christmas saying, “Seven…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI understand that. As I said earlier, with all humility to my colleagues from Northern Ireland, I start from a position of trying to find a way through. That is one of the…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillLet me ask my right hon. Friend a specific question. If somebody who committed a terrorist act appears before the truth and reconciliation commission and, during that appearance,…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am listening carefully to my right hon. Friend. May I ask him a linked question? Is not one of the problems that those who can be pursued through the courts tend to be those who…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillIf the hon. Gentleman does not mind me saying so, I think he is mischaracterising the concern of those of us who served and who remember what others went through. No one has ever…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillYou’re a young man.24 May 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. The powerful article by Lord Trimble, one of the architects of the Good Friday agreement, makes it very clear that the maintenance of…17 May 2022HANSARDHong Kong Arrests Under National Security LawI am grateful to you, Mr Speaker, for granting the urgent question. On 11 May—yesterday—Chinese authorities arrested three trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which…12 May 2022