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HANSARD Thomas Cook CustomersThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I congratulate you on your own gallant and good-humoured campaign to be Speaker? I must congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of…05 Nov 2019HANSARDTributes to the Speaker’s ChaplainAs I have listened to the successive tributes, I have been looking at my page of notes of all the things that I wanted to say in order to show appreciation for everything that…31 Oct 2019HANSARDArchbishops of Canterbury and York: WorkloadCanterbury!31 Oct 2019HANSARDTributes to the SpeakerDid he write it?31 Oct 2019HANSARDTributes to the Speaker’s ChaplainAs I was in mid-sentence saying, the hon. Gentleman has a wonderful habit of sending little notes to colleagues at election time and at other times when he thinks that they may…31 Oct 2019HANSARDTributes to the SpeakerThank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me, for once, quite early on in proceedings and not “saving the good doctor” for tail-end Charlie. [ Laughter. ] One of the disadvantages, it…31 Oct 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseMay we have, in the run-up to Armistice Day, a statement from the Government on the unconditional restoration of war widows pensions so that 265 of them who lost their pensions on…24 Oct 2019HANSARDStrait of Hormuz: UK Shippingrose—21 Oct 2019HANSARD Harry DunnAlthough the Foreign Secretary has given a very full account of the representations made to the American authorities, he has not given any narrative of what the American…21 Oct 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Restoring DevolutionGiven that service personnel, their families and service veterans are losing out under the terms of the armed forces covenant not being fully applied in Northern Ireland, will the…21 Oct 2019HANSARDStrait of Hormuz: UK Shipping23. I hope I get an extra-long question in the light of that introduction, Mr Speaker. May I take this opportunity to congratulate, for the first time, my right hon. Friend on…21 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActsFor once.19 Oct 2019HANSARD US Troop Withdrawal from Northern SyriaI am sorry to disagree with my friend the Minister, but saying, “Oh well, it is only a withdrawal of 50 people” is like saying, “Oh, well, it is only the withdrawal of HMS…08 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeIn the middle of last month, it emerged that yet another person, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Cambridge-educated British-Australian academic, has been banged up in Iran, probably as a…07 Oct 2019HANSARDState Pension: WomenI accept everything that the Minister just said, but does he accept that successive Governments, despite their best efforts, failed to get the message across to enough people that…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesMy hon. Friend the Minister had a strong outing on this subject on 26 September—a date that I happen to remember. Today, I noticed a subtle difference in his wording, as he talked…07 Oct 2019HANSARD Hong KongFollowing directly the point that was just made by the SNP spokesman, is there any evidence that the Chinese intelligence services, adopting classic communist methodology, are…26 Sept 2019HANSARD International Climate ActionDo we have a policy of using our large international aid budget as a means of incentivising other countries to improve their climate change policies?26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateI get the impression that my hon. Friend is on his peroration, so I cannot resist adding a historical footnote on the Lisbon treaty. When a number of us argued that we ought to…26 Sept 2019HANSARD IranDo the Government accept that when we are dealing with two adversarial powers, both influential and both in the grip of religious fanaticism, the best policy we can adopt is one…25 Sept 2019