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HANSARDCyber-attack: Microsoft(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if he will make a statement on the reported Chinese state-sponsored…20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI simply ask my right hon. Friend to notice what I said: I referred to those who already have confirmed status as a victim of modern-day slavery. This is important, because it…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI draw the House’s attention to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. My focus today in the short time available—I cannot wait for call lists to end—is a…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy right hon. Friend is making a very good speech. As we can see from the Bill, much needs to be done. I want to draw her attention to part 4, which deals with modern slavery. I…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThe Home Secretary is being most generous in giving way. The time in which people are granted leave to remain has a bearing on whether we can prosecute those who are guilty,…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolI am going to refer to the right hon. Gentleman as my right hon. Friend for this because he is absolutely right. That is the key point about mutual enforcement. We have been…15 Jul 2021HANSARDBeijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Government SanctionsIt is a pleasure to take part in this debate; I thank my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) for securing it. I draw the House’s attention to my…15 Jul 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolSometimes, over the course of this, the view is taken in the EU, or even in Ireland, that somehow the rest of the UK, or Great Britain, has no regard at all for the status of…15 Jul 2021HANSARDBeijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Government SanctionsI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I do not want to hold him up for very long because he is in the last part of this speech. With regard to slave labour chains and…15 Jul 2021HANSARDBeijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Government SanctionsNo, I really have not. My hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise that. The funny thing about the Chinese Government is that President Xi says exactly what he is going to do and,…15 Jul 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolThe hon. Lady has, interestingly, reopened the issue of mutual enforcement and recognition. She referred to the New Zealand agreement on SPS foods and so on. That agreement is…15 Jul 2021HANSARDBeijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Government SanctionsI was reflecting on my hon. Friend’s earlier comments about the Olympics in Beijing. We were told in 2008, as I recall, that the awarding of the Olympics would be a key moment in…15 Jul 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) on securing it; it is long overdue, but through…15 Jul 2021HANSARDNewport Wafer Fab SaleI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for The Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) on his question. May I say to the Minister that I think the Government are in an unholy…15 Jul 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolDoes my right hon. Friend recognise that Lord Trimble is not just a Nobel peace prize winner, but one of the two architects of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, the other of whom…15 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastWe lost two people in this House.14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastI particularly welcome your opening statement, Mr Speaker, about the way in which this information came out today. Many years ago, I was called to serve in Northern Ireland. I did…14 Jul 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI thank the Prime Minister for coming to the House to make this statement. I agree that we clearly owe a debt of honour to the members of our armed forces, many of whom have lost…08 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He is right, and that is the point I was trying to make earlier. There has been a huge upwelling of anger and concern about the theft…05 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. The truth is that I have had a lot of discussions with my right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor about this, and I…05 Jul 2021