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HANSARDHong Kong National Security LegislationI commend my right hon. Friend for his statement and clear leadership here and in the UN and for the Magnitsky arrangements he intends to bring forward. I remind him and others…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillThe hon. Lady talked about the Morse review. We called for a review before the present Prime Minister was brought in; he agreed to it. The Morse review does not completely cover…01 Jul 2020HANSARDXinjiang: UyghursThe Inter-parliamentary Alliance on China—IPAC—which is made up of 30 other lawmakers from 16 global legislatures, has today published research by Professor Adrian Zenz, the…29 Jun 2020HANSARDXinjiang: Uyghurs(Urgent Question): To ask the Prime Minister whether his Government will make a statement on the mistreatment by the Chinese Government of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.29 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) on securing this urgent question, because this is the most important and significant strategic…15 Jun 2020HANSARDHong Kong National Security Legislation: UK ResponseI congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement, but does he not now think that the position of China is altogether too obvious, and that since President Xi arrived, its…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19I wish to make a few quick points. First, I wish to welcome the Chancellor’s statement today, because this is an area where a lot of us have been pushing him to give some security…12 May 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Employment SupportI commend my hon. Friend and I agree with him—that is something that the Government should be moving on now, but there is something else the Government could do literally today.…19 Mar 2020HANSARD Economic UpdateI commend my right hon. Friend the Chancellor for his bold measures today, which will encourage many small businesses to believe that the Government are on their side. There is…17 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI will give way in a second, but I am conscious that you want me to make some progress, Madam Deputy Speaker. I worry when we start compromising security. I worry—and this is the…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI am conscious that Madam Deputy Speaker does not want me to speak for too long, so I will give way briefly.10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Let me bring him back to the Government’s position. Is it correct, and does he agree, that the position of Her Majesty’s Government is now…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI am glad that my right hon. Friend raises that point, which I was going to come to. He is right. There has been a whispered suggestion to many of my colleagues and, I am sure,…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillWith respect to the hon. Gentleman, I have no idea what he was intervening over. There is a free market, and when a free market operates we have competition because companies are…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI rise to speak to amendment 1, standing in my name and in those of my colleagues. The reason we have tabled this amendment is that we are genuinely concerned, like the hon.…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI agree with my right hon. Friend, and I was going to come to those points. As I saying, if we look at this strategy, we see that when this all began, there were something like 12…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillWe have looked at the past, we are where we are and now we look to the future. That suggests that we will become completely and utterly in thrall to providers that we cannot…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but not for long.10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I was going to come to that, but now that he has mentioned it, let us kill this one completely. The reality is that there has been a…10 Mar 2020