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HANSARDDevelopment Aid: PakistanThe noble Lord makes a very good point: targeting aid to those minority groups is useless if it will not reach them in the first place. One of the primary aims of the department…02 Oct 2019HANSARDPolice: Additional OfficersMy Lords, the noble Lord makes an important point about the child protection teams and how they should be able to do their jobs to protect children, which we can all agree is very…30 Sept 2019HANSARDPolice: Additional OfficersThe noble Baroness makes a good point: it is so important that these extra police we get working on our streets are effective in the work they carry out. It is therefore also…30 Sept 2019HANSARDPolice: Additional OfficersMy Lords, the Government have committed to recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers over the next three years. Through the police uplift programme, the Home Office and…30 Sept 2019HANSARDPolice: Additional OfficersMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his question. He raises the subject of police numbers. The important thing is to look to the future. My right honourable friend the Prime…30 Sept 2019HANSARDPolice: Additional OfficersThe noble Lord makes a good point, particularly on the community teams and the valued work they carry out. The noble Lord will be aware that the deployment of officers is a…30 Sept 2019HANSARDPolice: Additional OfficersThe noble Baroness mentioned police resources in Northern Ireland. I will ensure that my noble friend the Minister is aware of her question; I will ask him to respond to that part…30 Sept 2019HANSARDPolice: Additional OfficersMy Lords, as the noble Lord will be fully aware, the important matter is that we will have these extra police additions to the force. They have an important part to play. I will…30 Sept 2019HANSARDSaudi Arabia: Arms Export LicencesI thank the noble Baroness for her question. I was aware of the report from the committee on this issue. As I said earlier, we are confident that the UK export controls provide a…26 Sept 2019HANSARDSaudi Arabia: Arms Export LicencesMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given earlier this morning in another place: “Today I will be laying a Written…26 Sept 2019HANSARDSaudi Arabia: Arms Export LicencesI thank the noble Lord for his questions and comments. Yes, we recognise that there have been mistakes. My right honourable friend the Secretary of State has made it quite clear…26 Sept 2019HANSARDSaudi Arabia: Arms Export LicencesMy Lords, I cannot agree with the noble Lord. The judgment of the Court of Appeal back in June endorsed the view of the Divisional Court of July 2017 that the processes we have…26 Sept 2019HANSARDSaudi Arabia: Arms Export LicencesI thank the noble Lord for his questions. He raises a number of points in relation to his question to my noble friend Lord Ahmad which, of course, as he rightly says, would have…26 Sept 2019HANSARDIranI thank my noble friend for the very interesting points he made, which I will draw to the attention of my colleagues in the department. It is so important that we have engagement…25 Sept 2019HANSARDIranMy Lords, my noble friend makes some good points. On areas of conflict and how to react to them, this is another area in which to talk about how cybersecurity, whatever it may…25 Sept 2019HANSARDIranMy Lords, the noble Lord speaks from great experience in the region and in this subject—far more than I have, I must say. He makes some very good points about how we can develop a…25 Sept 2019HANSARDIranMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord and the noble Baroness for their questions and contributions to this debate. I hope to address many of the points they raised in one answer, and…25 Sept 2019HANSARDIranMy Lords, I will now repeat a Statement made in another place: “With your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on Iran. The United Kingdom has always been…25 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillMy Lords, the Minister for Exiting the European Union is at an important meeting at the moment but will be joining us.06 Sept 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in the name of my noble and learned friend Lord Keen of Elie on the Order Paper.05 Sept 2019