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HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryMy hon. Friend makes an absolutely valid point, in that we are holding staff to a much higher standard than the standard to which the Home Secretary appears to want to hold…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryA whole host of arrangements could have been made that would have been far preferable to what the Home Secretary did, and it is extraordinary that she thought that was something…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryIf it was already in the public domain and there is nothing to hide, does the hon. Member agree that we should at least get to see that ministerial statement?08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryI think nobody in this Chamber will be surprised to hear me say that I think there are a million reasons why the Home Secretary should be nowhere near the office that she…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe hon. Member raises a very fair point. There are all sorts of things missing from the Home Secretary’s letters—both her resignation letter and her letter to the Chair of the…08 Nov 2022HANSARDAsylum Seekers Accommodation and SafeguardingI, too, congratulate the right hon. Member for North Thanet (Sir Roger Gale) on securing this urgent question and on his persistent scrutiny of these issues. Surely we have now…07 Nov 2022HANSARD International Doctors: VisasIt is good to see you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I also start by welcoming the Minister to his place. I wish him good luck; he probably needs it, as much as any Minister in…02 Nov 2022HANSARD International Doctors: VisasI have one final thought. I appreciate that the Minister will go away and task officials with looking at a possible umbrella sponsor—that is very positive news. The other issue is…02 Nov 2022HANSARD International Doctors: VisasThat is a valid proposition, and we could do the same with health boards in Scotland. If we knock our heads together, we can come up with a way to fix this. It just requires a…02 Nov 2022HANSARD International Doctors: VisasThat is absolutely fair. The point I am making is that we should also consider—and in fairness, we do—where it is that we are recruiting from. We do not want to leave some of the…02 Nov 2022HANSARD National SecurityI thank the Minister for his statement. Like him and the shadow Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), I pay tribute to…01 Nov 2022HANSARDOverseas Chinese Police Stations in UK: Legal StatusI, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia Kearns) on securing this important urgent question, and I welcome the Minister to his place. These are really…01 Nov 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI thank the Home Secretary for her statement and join the whole House in condemning the frightening attack at Western Jet Foil and in sending our sympathy to all those who are…31 Oct 2022HANSARDHome Secretary: Resignation and ReappointmentNew Prime Minister, same old Tories—a Government just like their predecessors who clearly do not think the ministerial code is worth the paper it is written on. This appointment…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI, too, welcome the Home Secretary to his place and, like him, I want to thank the members of the inquiry and their staff for their incredibly thorough and painstaking work over…24 Oct 2022HANSARDCost of Living Crisis: Devolved Budget, Households and Businesses2. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on (a) the devolved budget, (b) Welsh households, and (c) businesses in Wales.19 Oct 2022HANSARDCost of Living Crisis: Devolved Budget, Households and BusinessesThe Secretary of State’s U-turn during the Tory leadership election was indeed truly eye-catching, but the U-turn about which people in Wales are most concerned at the moment is…19 Oct 2022HANSARDDraft Terrorism Act 2000 (Alterations to the Search Powers Code England and Wales and Scotland) Order 2022Very unusually for stop and search powers, we are all on the same page today, so I will be brief. I think these are sensible, carefully limited measures that bring clarity for the…19 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Thirteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. My apologies for missing the previous Committee sitting. I can now welcome the Minister to his place at this very…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I support the objective of the new clause. When we were debating some of the offences in part 1, the SNP tabled various amendments to try to make it clear that the national…18 Oct 2022