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HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI would be inclined to agree with many of the speeches made from the Opposition Benches, not least the eloquent one from the hon. Member for Rochdale (Tony Lloyd), if it were not…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI think I heard my name in the list the Secretary of State read out earlier. As early as April 2017, the Select Committee on Defence recommended a statute of limitation combined…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am glad to see the Secretary of State and the Minister of State nodding, because it is essential that the process stand up to the test. As I said in my intervention on the hon.…24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI will one more time, but I would like to develop my argument, fascinating though these interventions are.24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillThat is precisely what the truth recovery process is meant to achieve.24 May 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillThat is exactly the central point. There are perhaps two ways of getting the knowledge. One way is to go on as we have been in trying to investigate these things piecemeal, with…24 May 2022HANSARD Public Order BillI cannot see what these general points about the record of individual Ministers have to do with the substance of the Bill. What does have to do with the substance of the Bill is…23 May 2022HANSARD Public Order BillI am a little concerned about the point raised by the right hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie), because many, if not most, of these protesters feel that their cause is…23 May 2022HANSARD Public Order BillAs someone who, for decades, has gone around with a heavy chain and padlock to secure my motorcycle, I have never found myself in a situation where I was carrying that device but…23 May 2022HANSARD Public Order BillI thank the right hon. Lady for giving me a second bite of the cherry. I fear I have to confess that I am possibly the only Member here today who was actually arrested once—for…23 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast Friday was the 36th anniversary of the rebel amendment in the House of Lords proposed by Lady Cox, which banned the indoctrination of schoolchildren with partisan political…23 May 2022HANSARDNorth East Ambulance ServiceWhen senior managers and administrators are found to be directly involved in gross negligence and deliberate cover-ups, will they lose their jobs or will they be allowed to…23 May 2022HANSARD Public Order BillWill the right hon. Lady give way?23 May 2022HANSARD NATO and International SecurityThank you very much for calling me to speak so early, Mr Deputy Speaker. When one has discussed these sorts of subjects for a very long time, it becomes rather difficult to avoid…19 May 2022HANSARDBuilding Remediation CostsMy right hon. Friend has done excellent work on protecting leaseholders over the cladding scandal as a result of revisiting Government policy. Will he revisit another Government…16 May 2022HANSARD UkraineI welcome the right hon. Gentleman’s generally consensual approach, but the fact is that if we entered into a new military or security relationship with Europe but without the…26 Apr 2022HANSARD UkraineI do not dispute that at all, but we must remember that Russian artillery has Ukrainian cities to aim at, whereas Ukrainian artillery would only be aiming, presumably, at Russian…26 Apr 2022HANSARD UkraineI suspect my hon. Friend is going to make a constructive suggestion in that respect.26 Apr 2022HANSARD UkraineIn earlier debates on 9 and 15 March, I set out my analysis—for what it is worth—of the nature of Putinism in the context of post-communist Russia, and I do not propose to try the…26 Apr 2022HANSARD UkraineVery much in the spirit of consensus, I will entirely concede the right hon. Gentleman’s point if he believes that the effect of our being part of that conversation would be to…26 Apr 2022