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HANSARDAcquired Brain InjuryMay I add one more category to those listed by my right hon. Friend and the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant)? I am talking about service personnel who were blown up in Iraq…09 May 2019HANSARDAcquired Brain InjuryMay I add briefly to that catalogue of virtues the fact that Headway has been reaching out to parliamentarians like ourselves? The reason I am here for this debate is that Jo…09 May 2019HANSARDAcquired Brain InjuryI was not talking about tumours; I was talking about traumatic injury caused in explosions. My understanding is that only Nottingham and Aston Universities have the special types…09 May 2019HANSARD Military Aircraft ManufacturingAs the Minister knows, the Defence Committee is quite worried that not enough is being done to protect the defence industrial base. In advance of his appearance before us on 21…08 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsGiven the 2017 law requiring everyone in China to co-operate with that communist country’s intelligence services, would it not be naive to the point of negligence to allow Huawei…08 May 2019HANSARDIran Nuclear DealGiven the vital importance of the intelligence arrangements that we share with the United States, in the context of this particular crucial and worrying situation, will the…08 May 2019HANSARD Welbeck Defence Sixth Form CollegeCan the Minister tell me how long it will take to determine whether the new scheme is a success? If it is found not to be a success, will it be too late to go back to a…30 Apr 2019HANSARD Welbeck Defence Sixth Form CollegeLike my right hon. Friend, I, on behalf of the Defence Committee, received a number of representations from people involved with Welbeck who stressed the high quality of the…30 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsDo the Government accept that the telecommunications firm Huawei is intimately linked with the Chinese communist Government and their deeply hostile intelligence services?24 Apr 2019HANSARD Saudi Arabia: Mass ExecutionsDoes the Minister feel, as I do, that the feebleness of the response to the Khashoggi murder and the butchering of his body has in some way encouraged the Saudi authorities to…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeIf there is an inquiry into this matter, as I hope there will be, I would be surprised if it were not found that the whole issue boils down to a single, simple question—were…11 Apr 2019HANSARD Arrest of Julian AssangeA bloodhound.11 Apr 2019HANSARD Arrest of Julian AssangeHow much has the police operation guarding the embassy cost, and is there any prospect of recovering any of this money—perhaps from Mr Assange’s celebrity backers?11 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentI am delighted to follow two such supportive speeches on the nuclear deterrent and the work of those who have crewed it for the past 50 years. It is amazing to think of the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is there any way within the rules of order that I can point out that the nuclear deterrent has been supported on this occasion by a ratio of 7:1,…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentI make one point for the hon. Gentleman’s consideration—one could say exactly the same thing about poison gas, which was used in the first world war and not in the second. It was…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentI will endeavour to finish quickly, Mr Deputy Speaker. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart) was right to think in those terms when he wore that…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentAbsolutely. If we get into a situation where the United States and the NATO alliance are paralysed in the face of dictatorships armed even with a few mass-destruction weapons that…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentI pay tribute to the people who work at Aldermaston in my right hon. Friend’s constituency for all that they contribute to the maintenance of our nuclear deterrent capability. Not…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentThe hon. Gentleman is an admirable member of the Defence Committee, and we greatly value his contributions, but I do not think that that was his most stellar contribution— […10 Apr 2019