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HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI will be brief, as much has been said already. However, I want to say a bit to my hon. Friend the Minister about Lords amendment 4. I also, by the way, want to recognise my hon.…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillIs the main point in all of this that this was not a market failure? Although an industrial strategy is important, in reality this is a national security failure. Huawei has…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillWith respect, these are not specific partners; these are our closest allies when it comes to intelligence sharing. They do not get any closer than this. Working with them, as we…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI welcome the Minister to her place. If we look back over the past few months, even the past year or so, we see very much that the resistance early on by the UK Government with…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillTo break the rules—08 Nov 2021HANSARDTributes to Sir David AmessI am going to be, or at least intend to be, brief; after all, pretty much everything about David has been said, but that does not mean I cannot repeat it. I knew David for 29…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSocial Security (Up-rating of Benefits) BillDoes the right hon. Gentleman agree that often in the briefings used there is a kind of mistake in that they talk about this as being an unemployment benefit? It is not, because…20 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Security (Up-rating of Benefits) BillI understood that as the amendment is on the Order Paper, I have at least a right to speak to it, even though it was not selected.20 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Security (Up-rating of Benefits) BillIn that case, I am going to make passing reference to it, and I will leave the Chair to decide whether or not that passing reference is more substantial. I shall pass through…20 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Security (Up-rating of Benefits) BillI am grateful to be called so early in this debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am a huge admirer and supporter of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, as…20 Sept 2021HANSARDFraudulent Online AdvertisementsMay I, through the Minister, pass on my congratulations to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Ms…16 Sept 2021HANSARD Brexit: OpportunitiesI welcome my right hon. and learned Friend’s statement. Our report was put together independently, taking full evidence from various areas of industry, services and so on. It…16 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI welcome my hon. Friend’s statement, but I want to return to the issue of where the children will make this decision. The reality is that we have parents taking responsibility…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I apologise to colleagues for this brief intervention, but I have heard that the all-party parliamentary China group has invited the…07 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistanI thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. Has he noticed that the Chinese Government, since our departure from Afghanistan, have used Afghanistan to up their threats to…06 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanThe visions on television sets the other day were very much redolent of 1975. No matter what Secretary of State Blinken said, the parallels with the Americans’ departure from…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanWe do. The problem is that we and the Americans have pulled out. We now have to find a way to support people. Those who need to come here must come, the doors must be open and we…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanThere is no doubt that that is an infamous statement to make. Those men and women lost their lives trying to uphold what we had brought to Afghanistan, and we should be proud of…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanMay I take the right hon. and learned Gentleman back to the statement that the President of the United States made the other day? Does he not agree that that took on the terms of…18 Aug 2021HANSARDCyber-attack: MicrosoftI simply make the point that it is a surprise that it has taken you, Mr Speaker, to bring the Government to the Dispatch Box when they could have made a statement yesterday. This…20 Jul 2021