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HANSARDHong Kong Arrests Under National Security Law(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if she will make a statement on the arrests of Cardinal Zen, Margaret Ng, Hui…12 May 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI will speak briefly to Government amendment 48A, which is in lieu of amendment 48B. Essentially, it requires the health service to ensure that it does not use products made under…25 Apr 2022HANSARDUkraine UpdateI commend my right hon. Friend for his leadership and work, and the work of his colleagues, in ensuring that our friends, the Ukrainians, are able to defend themselves. I was…25 Apr 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am grateful to be called to speak so early, and I will be as brief as possible. I say to my hon. Friend the Minister that we have already had these discussions. In fact, the…20 Apr 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI recognise my hon. Friend’s concerns about this, but the main point to be taken from it—I hope to speak about this later—is the reality that right now this minimum period is…20 Apr 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseI want to raise an issue affecting my local area. It involves the North London Waste Authority and the unwanted building of a huge incinerator in Edmonton. Not a single Member of…31 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillWill the Minister give way?30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongNormally, to get up with almost half an hour left in which to summarise a debate would be a sheer joy for a parliamentarian or politician. [ Laughter. ] However, I will not take…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongFollowing on from what the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West) said, however, while welcoming all those sanctions, the problem is that we have sanctioned fewer…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongThe length of the intervention matches the exceptional nature of where we are. Normally, one would make a speech asking for the Government to do something, but they have done it…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongIn this very Chamber, I and others from the APPG on Magnitsky sanctions called on the Government to sanction more people. The hon. Gentleman has listed two people who are…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongThe hon. Lady is quite right. As I said earlier, the shockwaves from what is going on in Ukraine will wash around the world. Most of all, the important thing that that teaches…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongI am grateful for that intervention, because I had a meeting with the Bar Council about this issue. To be fair, its members understood the dilemma that they had. Bear in mind that…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongI am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend. I know that he has privately been a big supporter of what we have been trying to do, so I appreciate his coming here now that he…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongI am grateful to the Minister for intervening on my opening remarks to make it clear what the Government have said, and I welcome that. We set up an organisation, the…30 Mar 2022HANSARDBritish and Overseas Judges: Hong KongI beg to move, That this House has considered the role of British and overseas judges in Hong Kong. It is a pleasure and a privilege to serve under your stewardship, Ms Rees.…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI shall try to be brief. I rise to speak to amendments (a) and (b) in lieu of Lords amendment 48, which refers to genocide. Along with 19 colleagues, some of whom are present, I…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI hope to speak on this subject if I catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I want to make the point that right now, even though it is not meant to be allowed, the NHS is using…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillCan the Minister tell his colleagues in the Government that there is never a good time? Now is the right time, and let us get on with it.30 Mar 2022HANSARDGambling-related HarmDoes the hon. Lady think that kind of answers the last intervention? If the gambling companies that are businesses did not think the advertising was successful in capturing more…29 Mar 2022