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HANSARDHuman Rights Abuses: Magnitsky SanctionsWill my right hon. Friend explain to the House who actually does the research that leads to people being identified for sanctioning, whether there is resistance in such places as…08 Jan 2026HANSARD Subsea Telecommunications Cables: Resilience and Crisis PreparednessI congratulate the Committee on its report, and I know that it took evidence from authoritative experts, such as the excellent Elisabeth Braw. Can the Chair explain to the House…08 Jan 2026HANSARDHuman Rights Abuses: Magnitsky SanctionsIn support of what the hon. Gentleman is saying, does he agree that it is significant how important even a single ship of this fleet is to the Russian authorities that in…08 Jan 2026HANSARDMyanmar: Religious Minority PersecutionI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for bringing this debate to Westminster Hall. I have come along to learn more about the situation, which is, frankly, puzzling. Is the…08 Jan 2026HANSARDMyanmar: Religious Minority PersecutionThe Minister mentioned the UN Security Council, and we heard earlier from the hon. Member for Leicester South (Shockat Adam) about what he perceives to be a potential weakness in…08 Jan 2026HANSARD Ukraine and Wider Operational UpdateDo the Government accept that if you will the ends, you must will the means? The end of the cold war has been mentioned a number of times. It is a fact that at the end of the cold…07 Jan 2026HANSARDJury TrialsI would like to say, in support of what the hon. Lady has been saying, that surely a distinction of which we need to be aware is that, whereas the judge is a specialist in…07 Jan 2026HANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI do not think I heard the Minister mention anything about the risk of cyber-attacks on local government. Does my hon. Friend agree that that is another potentially juicy target…06 Jan 2026HANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI am extremely grateful to the Minister for giving way. On the point about regulators, the industry has issued a brief, which points out, quite sensibly, that these regulators are…06 Jan 2026HANSARD UkraineMay I endorse what the hon. Member for Portsmouth North (Amanda Martin) and the Minister have said about Lance Corporal George Hooley, who sounds as if he was a fine individual…18 Dec 2025HANSARD Local Government ReorganisationCan I explain to the Minister why this U-turn is worrying? She said that there would have to be strong reasons for elections to be cancelled, and then cancelled them on the basis…18 Dec 2025HANSARD 15th AnniversaryHas my hon. Friend and his Committee considered whether anything can be done to encourage more media interest in the subject of the debates that his Committee grants? I have in…18 Dec 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and ReconciliationMay I ask the Secretary of State to clarify whether his earlier remarks mean what I think they do, which is that even if it had not been for the guidance of the Joint Committee on…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsMay I thank the Minister for the work he did in another capacity on behalf of the victims, and the relatives of the victims, of the infected blood scandal? He did a very good job,…17 Dec 2025HANSARDPuberty Suppressants TrialThe Secretary of State deserves our sympathy for having to negotiate such an ethical minefield. Will he tell us whether the data exists from all the people who had puberty…17 Dec 2025HANSARD Electoral ResilienceI hope that the Rycroft review will take account of the fact that the giving of money is by no means the worst aspect, or the main aspect, of treacherous behaviour, because very…16 Dec 2025HANSARDAfrica: New ApproachFollowing on directly from that, what can the Minister tell us about any military advice or assistance that our experts in counter-insurgency are giving to the Governments of…16 Dec 2025HANSARDChagossians: Trust Fund and ResettlementIs, in the Government’s opinion, Mauritius a free society, and what is the Government’s assessment of the nature of its relationship with communist China?16 Dec 2025HANSARDJimmy Lai ConvictionLike every other communist regime that has ever existed, the Chinese Government behave with ruthlessness, impunity and unmitigated mendacity. I therefore welcome the strong words…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNATO: European SecurityHaving sat through the debate on Ukraine on 4 December, has the Minister taken on board the important message for our NATO colleagues that if there is a forced division of…15 Dec 2025