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HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillThat is because I know what I am doing, Madam Deputy Speaker, as you well know. Let me say this to the Minister for Defence People and Veterans. We always try to find the maximum…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI will not have that. The armed forces look to this place to get this right—the hon. Gentleman is correct on that—but they expect and deserve a better standard than the comment he…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI have not disputed any of those things. I am willing to have that conversation, but the Secretary of State has introduced a Bill that is so egregious that he makes it impossible…23 Sept 2020HANSARDArmed Forces Capability: Future Security ThreatsI echo the comments of the shadow Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey), about the armed forces and the job they are doing in the…21 Sept 2020HANSARDArmed Forces Capability: Future Security ThreatsThe Government promised 12,500 and the Secretary of State has not once come close to delivering 10,000. He promised a frigate factory and his Department has never come close to…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportUnlike the Minister, I will at least have the grace to congratulate the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) on his election to the chairmanship of the Intelligence…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI, too, am grateful to the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Like him, I would like to put on record our condolences to the family, friends and colleagues in…22 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsI welcome the decision inasmuch as it is progress of a kind, but let us not be so myopic as to think that the victory is complete; it is not. As long as Huawei continues to have…14 Jul 2020HANSARDDefence CapabilitiesThe Secretary of State is absolutely right. Let me be clear: I want him to get the review and the capability right, but I am concerned, following what I think might have been the…06 Jul 2020HANSARDDefence CapabilitiesMay I send the best wishes of the Scottish National party to the Veterans Minister on the birth of his new child? Will the Secretary of State outline what assessment the MOD has…06 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Support and Accommodation for Asylum SeekersThose of us who represent Glasgow are utterly horrified at the Minister’s tone-deaf remarks about how lovely these hotel rooms are. I ask him whether he could stay in one hotel…29 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsEven before the pandemic began it was clear that the UK has one of the most manifestly inadequate systems of statutory sick pay in the world: we are second from the bottom in…10 Jun 2020HANSARDHong Kong National Security Legislation: UK ResponseI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement and, like others, I welcome much of what was in it. SNP Members of course stand in full solidarity with those in…02 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Defence Science and Technology LaboratoryMay I, too, put on the record my thanks to the armed forces, particularly for helping with building the NHS Louisa Jordan in my home city, Glasgow? This Citriodiol issue is deeply…12 May 2020HANSARDVeteransI welcome what the Minister has to say on that. Can he give the House an assurance that he will move every mountain in government to work in particular with the charitable sector…16 Mar 2020HANSARDVeteransMay I echo the Secretary of State’s remarks about Lance Corporal Gillon, and go a bit further and thank all the uniformed and non-uniformed staff serving in his Department? We…16 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GThat is quite all right. We can tell this debate is important because of the variety of personalities sitting here. We have several former Cabinet Ministers, a former Deputy Prime…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI will take it, Chair, because the other one is not here. I guess you mean me. [ Laughter. ]04 Mar 2020HANSARDMaritime Security4. What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on maritime security off the coast of Scotland.12 Feb 2020HANSARDMaritime SecurityNot least because of the Minister’s own constituency, he will understand that there is an obvious breach point in the high north of Scotland for adversaries to come into, as has…12 Feb 2020