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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing me to get in at the last minute, because this is a London statement. When a Minister gets a collection of London MPs together, it would be…15 Oct 2020HANSARD China’s Policy on its Uyghur PopulationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I hope that I am suitably smart to continue—12 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. I recognise that these are difficult times and that he has to make difficult and, I hope, balanced choices, balancing the economic…12 Oct 2020HANSARD China’s Policy on its Uyghur PopulationI am glad. That is very kind of you, Mr Gray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Islwyn (Chris Evans) on a powerful speech to begin this brilliant debate. It is important that he…12 Oct 2020HANSARDChina: Labour Programme in TibetDoes my hon. Friend not agree that right now there must be a very public statement by the Government saying to those who take money from China and then promptly defend it that…07 Oct 2020HANSARDChina: Labour Programme in TibetI thank my hon. Friend the Minister for his comments at the end of this really powerful debate, featuring many right hon. and hon. Members from both sides of the House. It is…07 Oct 2020HANSARDChina: Labour Programme in TibetIt is a pleasure to give way to the right hon. Gentleman, who came early to this issue. He has been calling it out for some time, and I congratulate him on that. I agree with him.…07 Oct 2020HANSARDChina: Labour Programme in TibetI beg to move, That this House has considered reports of China’s rapid expansion of the labour programme in Tibet co-published by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. It is…07 Oct 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThat is why I gave way to my right hon. Friend—because he was there. I think he was a very good Minister too, by the way, for what it is worth. The point is that for 10 years,…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThe hon. Gentleman says that this is about a collapse in trust. The collapse in trust in that description is one way; that is to say with the UK Government, because they are…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am conscious that everyone needs to get in, so I will try to be as brief as possible. Most of the things I will say have probably already been said and certainly will be said in…21 Sept 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseLike many others in the House, I have campaigned long and hard on the unfair treatment of those suffering under the loan charge—including many in and around my constituency—and I…10 Sept 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]I have listened carefully to my right hon. Friend and, given the nature of what the Government have already undertaken since the amendments were tabled by my right hon. Friends…08 Sept 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]I beg to move amendment 1, in page 1, line 6, at end insert— ‘( ) Nothing in this Act changes the effect of any rule of law or any enactment in force before the date on which this…08 Sept 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]I rise to speak to amendment 1, but with it are a whole bunch of other amendments that I have tabled alongside my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) and the hon.…08 Sept 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: UK Legal ObligationsI wonder if my right hon. Friend recalls that in clause 38—the sovereignty clause—of the Act that gave effect to the withdrawal agreement the Government reserved to themselves the…08 Sept 2020HANSARDChinaI unreservedly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement; he has taken the right decision. We have had good cause to suspend the extradition treaty, and I will now withdraw my…20 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsI welcome the decision to eradicate Huawei from the 5G system, but I think that the Secretary of State can do it more quickly than he says. I was listening to the “Today”…14 Jul 2020HANSARDGlobal Human Rights Sanctions RegimeI unreservedly congratulate my right hon. Friend. As my hon. Friend the Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Tom Tugendhat) and others have said, he has personally been an advocate…06 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillMy right hon. Friend talks about tax loopholes and, yes, that is absolutely clear, but the thing about the loan charge is that HMRC itself was complicit in the process. It was…01 Jul 2020