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HANSARD Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillOne of the problems that the Government have today is that, for those of us who like the red meat of law enforcement and law and order, the Minister has forced us to look inside…05 Oct 2020HANSARD Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillI am extremely grateful. He mentioned the armed forces very briskly there. Could he clarify why the armed forces might need to engage in criminal conduct? I suspect it is because…05 Oct 2020HANSARD Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillWill the Minister allow me, before he finishes?05 Oct 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for what he has set out and the manner in which he has done it, and I thank him very much indeed. He said earlier that he would not…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)I said on Monday that I was actually quite pleased with the app. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is pleased with the app, and whether he has installed it and switched it on.30 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19My hon. Friend’s speech is so marvellous that I am just baldly going to give him another minute.28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19The hon. Member is making a very interesting speech, but I just wonder which Member of this House has said the virus should be allowed to let rip? I have not, and I am not aware…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19Would the Minister allow me?28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I can reassure my right hon. Friend that I am going to praise him later, but the Constitution Unit at University College London tweeted earlier about the regulations mentioned by…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I rise to do three things. The first is to praise the Government for everything they have achieved on PPE, on testing and on the track and trace app. In my libertarian soul, and…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19rose—28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I do not know the facts about meningitis, but I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his point. I particularly welcomed the debate between scientists on this Sunday’s “Ridge”…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19Will my hon. Friend give way?28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I am thankful for my right hon. Friend’s commitments on parliamentary scrutiny. He will know that many Members of the House and members of the public are concerned about the use…22 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI very much agree with my right hon. Friend, but does he agree with me that it is also contrary to the European Union’s conceding to the UK that Northern Ireland is in the UK’s…21 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementI congratulate my right hon. Friend heartily, and her chief trade negotiation adviser, who, I think, led this particular negotiation, if I recall correctly. I welcome the fact…14 Sept 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsMinisters will know that I am particularly concerned about airline and airport staff in Wycombe, so will they tell me what they are doing across Government to ensure that people…14 Sept 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseListening to the skilfully reassuring—indeed, mellifluous—responses of my hon. Friend at the Dispatch Box, one could easily forget that outside this House, increasing numbers of…10 Sept 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: UK Legal ObligationsIs not the right way forward to reach a free trade agreement of the kind that the EU proposed to us back in the spring of 2018 and of the kind that the Government want to reach,…08 Sept 2020HANSARD Birmingham Attacks and Extinction Rebellion ProtestsAs we rise to tackle the very real environmental issues we face, does the Minister agree that what we need is reason, vigour and practicality, not alarmism and revolution?07 Sept 2020