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HANSARD British Citizens Abroad: FCO Help to Return HomeFollowing the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) about the Coral Princess, may I urge the Foreign Secretary to check on what is happening with this…24 Mar 2020HANSARD Self-employed Persons: Financial SupportWill Ministers consider suspending the application of the loan charge for the period of this emergency, thus stopping the hounding of the self-employed people who were the subject…24 Mar 2020HANSARD A&E Departments: StaffingIn the presence of an appropriate Minister, can we urge the point that food supplies ought to be made available at the place of work for key workers? When they come off their…23 Mar 2020HANSARD A&E Departments: StaffingQuite a major distribution and logistics firm in my constituency has offered drivers and vehicles for the cause of fighting the virus. Is there some sort of central one-stop shop…23 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewMy right hon. Friend is making an unanswerable case in logic, but I would like to put another political point to him. The cause of tax avoidance is not normally associated with…19 Mar 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIn difficult times we should remember those who sacrifice most, so may we have a statement or debate on the substance of early-day motion 280 about the scandal of war widows who…19 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Employment SupportGiven that the suggestions of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) could be implemented so speedily, will the Minister…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewMaybe the thesaurus wasn’t clear.19 Mar 2020HANSARD Horizon Settlement: Future Governance of Post Office LtdOne other thing the Post Office must have known all along was that there was this huge spike in postmasters and postmistresses being reported and prosecuted, so they did not know…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewIf it were so clear and the schemes were so contrived, why did HMRC not point that out to people at an early stage, so that they would have seen what they were letting themselves…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewDuring business questions before this debate, I asked about the perennial issue of war widows whose pensions were stopped because they remarried or cohabited, and we were told in…19 Mar 2020HANSARDSaudi Arabia: Human RightsWhat is the Government’s latest assessment of the role of Saudi Arabia in promoting radical Islamist doctrines beyond its borders?17 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsGiven that the Government are on track to deal with the hounding of our veterans within 100 days of taking office, how many days will it take to produce an ex gratia plan for the…16 Mar 2020HANSARDIntegrated ReviewIf the integrated review comes to the conclusion, which it certainly should, that the defence part of the review requires more than 2% of GDP to be spent on conventional and…16 Mar 2020HANSARD Self-defence Training in SchoolsAnd largely the same views.12 Mar 2020HANSARD Veterans’ Mental HealthWith the Minister’s own strong record on the subject, I am sure that he will agree that the misapplication of human rights law to the battlefield, rather than the law of armed…12 Mar 2020HANSARDFreedom of Religion or BeliefIs the real problem not so much the religion itself but fundamentalism? When people get so absorbed in their religion that they can only interpret it literally, extremism and…12 Mar 2020HANSARD Self-defence Training in SchoolsI am very interested in the case that my hon. Friend makes. Does he see any role in this scenario for the simple personal alarms with which Members of the House have been recently…12 Mar 2020HANSARD Self-defence Training in SchoolsI have used the intervening period since my intervention to check on the price of rape and other attack alarms. From a well-known online megastore, one can get a pack of three of…12 Mar 2020HANSARDWar WidowsGiven that the previous Defence Secretary sought and was refused permission from the Treasury to help the estimated 265 war widows whose pensions were cancelled when they…11 Mar 2020