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HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeCan the Minister tell the House roughly how many British dual nationals are being held captive in Iran, and how many of them chose to go there after the ordeal of this poor lady…25 Oct 2021HANSARD Arrest of Sudanese Prime MinisterWhat do we know about the ideological make-up of the military coup plotters? In particular, what is the relationship, if any, between them and the quite strong Islamist movement…25 Oct 2021HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeI really sympathise with the Minister, who is trying to pick up the pieces left behind by the US Administration’s appalling behaviour in withdrawing from Afghanistan so suddenly…25 Oct 2021HANSARD Security UpdateMay I draw particular attention to the wise words of the Home Secretary in what I think was her penultimate point about the discussion of security measures that MPs decide they…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Security Updaterose—20 Oct 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanInternet banking constantly asks customers if they are sure they wish to proceed. Surely it would not be too difficult to have an automated reminder or check, if it looks as if an…21 Sept 2021HANSARDSalisbury Incident 2018: UpdateI am sure the whole House welcomes the fact that the Home Secretary has chosen to come here today to volunteer this statement. It should not come as a surprise to anyone that the…21 Sept 2021HANSARD UK Gas MarketAs Russia completes its sinister Nord Stream 2 pipeline and tightens its stranglehold on gas supplies to Europe, why are we not fully exploiting Rolls-Royce modular nuclear…20 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Secretary of State inform the House what Members should do when they are contacted by people who have been of assistance to our armed forces in Afghanistan but whom they…20 Sept 2021HANSARDInternational TerrorismGiven that long-term nation building from the ground up is not a feasible option in the future, and given that terrorist attacks could happen again, will the Secretary of State…20 Sept 2021HANSARD Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint CommitteeThat harrowing account by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) puts me in mind of what happened to my family in Nazi-occupied Poland for 20 months during…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint CommitteeMembers on both sides of the House are fighting the corner for deserving Afghans whom we want to save. The Minister has just said that the Nowzad animal charity staff, who were…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint CommitteeI would have thought that it should come within the compass of the existing Government schemes to classify someone, providing the Government can satisfy themselves that what that…15 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan PolicyDoes the Minister know that the Council for At-Risk Academics has been rescuing scholars under these dangerous circumstances since 1933? I appreciate the difficulties of those who…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsTo what extent does the vaccination of a child reduce his or her liability to transmit the virus to a vulnerable person such as an elderly grandparent?13 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Secretary of State kindly speak to the Secretary of State for the Home Department about getting visas for the 12 at-risk Afghan scholars—some still in hiding, some in…06 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIs there any risk to older age groups who, because they are more vulnerable, had both jabs earlier that the effectiveness of those jabs might wear off sooner and that there might…06 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO UpdateHow careful are the Government going to be about not revealing very large numbers of names of people with a claim to come here to the Taliban until we know they will assist them…06 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistanThe Council for At-Risk Academics has been rescuing scholars in danger from oppressive regimes since the Nazi period in 1933. The Home Office has been sent a list of 12 such…06 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI am glad that my right hon. Friend approves of the strategy, but I said earlier that this speech on defence is, if anything, in my capacity as a former Chairman of the Defence…18 Aug 2021