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HANSARD Omar al-Bayoumi: Arrest and ExtraditionDoes the Minister accept that ever since the Saudi nationality of the vast majority of the 9/11 hijackers became known, there has been deep suspicion about the role of the then…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Palestine Action: Proscription and ProtestsAs I have indicated previously, I have my doubts about whether the terrorism label is most suited to a group that is certainly criminal, certainly violent, and arguably seditious,…08 Sept 2025HANSARDDefence Industrial StrategyNow that the killer in the Kremlin has reinstated the serious prospect of all-out war on the continent of Europe, does the Minister accept that this places a premium on national…08 Sept 2025HANSARDNATO Defence Spending TargetThe Defence Secretary says that the Chagos giveaway will amount to no more than 0.2% of our defence budget. Does that not suggest the cost of the Chagos giveaway will in fact come…08 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceJust over four decades ago, I first became aware of the BBC Monitoring service, or BBCM. The year was 1982, and a very different Labour party, led by veteran unilateralist Michael…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes the point extremely well, and I think that people with a mind to compromise would like to go down that road, but does he recognise that the usual handful…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI do not expect the Minister to be specific about numbers, but can he at least tell the House whether he accepts the principle that a considerably larger one-off tranche would be…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI do not purport to speak on behalf of my party, but rather as an individual who has long had an interest in the positive role that the Lords play in revising legislation, which…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Early Education and ChildcareAfter that tough question, may I ask an easy one? Can the Minister explain to the House what the funding level is for the new places, and in particular whether it fully…04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceIt is very gratifying to an old timer like me to see a fresh generation of serious-minded hon. and right hon. Members from all parties so united on this common theme in the…04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceI agree entirely, and before I give way for the next intervention, I will read what I had just been about to say. The report’s main conclusion was that the Government should…04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceI will give way first to the hon. Member for Halesowen (Alex Ballinger).04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceAbsolutely. The only good thing to be said about the propaganda of one’s adversaries is that sometimes, unwittingly, it gives us an insight into their plans and a forewarning of…04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceI must say it is gratifying in an end-of-day Adjournment debate on a Thursday early evening to have so many people so keen to intervene, including the hon. Member for Harlow…04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceYes, indeed. If ever something encapsulated the concept of soft power, and indeed buttressed and underpinned some of the agencies that have to delve from more secret sources for…04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceI am extremely grateful for that intervention. I am sure that the staff of BBC Monitoring, both present and past, will be grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the support that he…04 Sept 2025HANSARD BBC Monitoring ServiceI could not agree more. May I take the opportunity to thank the hon. Gentleman again for the excellent debate on the BBC World Service, which he led on 26 June, if I remember…04 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ8. Admiral Lord West was head of the Royal Navy, Chief of Defence Intelligence and a Labour Security Minister, and he sits on the Intelligence and Security Committee. When he…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorThe Minister is an entirely charming chap and a great entertainer—I worry that his Equity card might be getting out of date. He praises the changes that have been made to the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsGiven communist China’s predictable support for the killer in the Kremlin’s campaign of murder and mayhem in Ukraine, why are the Government rewarding China with a super-embassy…02 Sept 2025