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HANSARDShared Rural NetworkMay I congratulate my right hon. Friend on persuading the mobile operators to do what they resisted and told us was completely impossible for them to do? When she comes to address…28 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend, because I was about to say why I regarded this Bill as being a considerable improvement on the previous agreement, and he is right to point that…22 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI will give way briefly.22 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson), the leader of the Liberal Democrats. I give her and her party credit for consistency. No one has…22 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI must press on if my hon. Friend will forgive me. I do believe, however, that, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Sir David Lidington) said, the European Union has…22 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillIf the hon. Lady will forgive me, I must press on. I congratulate the Prime Minister on having defied all the sceptics. My right hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border…22 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillIf my right hon. and learned Friend will forgive me, I feel that I must press on. As I was saying, I believe that this is an improvement on what we were offered before, but there…22 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI have heard the hon. Lady express those concerns, I have heard them expressed by our friends in the Democratic Unionist party and I take them seriously. The Prime Minister gave…22 Oct 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill and Extension LetterDoes my right hon Friend agree that what the recipients of the letter and other EU member states, and indeed this country, want to know is whether the agreement that they have…21 Oct 2019HANSARD IranI strongly welcome my right hon. Friend’s continued championing of the cause of media freedom, on which Iran’s record is one of the worst in the world. In particular, will he…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Legal Advice: ProrogationDoes my right hon. and learned Friend agree that there is a judgment that is superior to that of any court’s? That is the judgment of the British people. It has once been given on…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingIs my right hon. Friend aware that many good schools, such as William de Ferrers School in my constituency, had made heroic efforts to find savings in recent years, to eliminate…03 Sept 2019HANSARD G7 SummitWill my right hon. Friend confirm his determination to keep up the pressure on Russia, which continues to illegally occupy Crimea, and whose involvement in the occupied…03 Sept 2019HANSARDPolice Surveillance of JournalistsI commend the Government on the organisation of last week’s excellent global media freedom conference, but does the Minister agree that the UK needs to do a lot more to improve on…17 Jul 2019HANSARDEuropean CouncilGiven the welcome, strong statements by the European Council about Russia’s behaviour, does the Prime Minister share my concern about Russia’s possible readmission to full voting…24 Jun 2019HANSARDOnline Pornography: Age VerificationIs my right hon. and learned Friend aware that this is not the first time that a DCMS measure has had to be reintroduced because of a failure to notify the EU Commission? I hope…20 Jun 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property2. What steps he is taking to increase protections for intellectual property.11 Jun 2019HANSARDFree TV Licences: Over-75sMay I respectfully say to my right hon. and learned Friend that when the decision was taken it was understood that this would be a possible outcome, not least because to maintain…11 Jun 2019HANSARDIntellectual PropertyIs my hon. Friend aware that online piracy of video and music content is still doing considerable damage to our creative industries? In particular, beoutQ, based in Saudi Arabia,…11 Jun 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the separation of powers is an important element of our constitution, and that as a general rule the involvement of the courts in matters…04 Jun 2019