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HANSARDMinisterial CodeDoes my right hon Friend, like me, find it extraordinary that, at a time when uppermost in our constituents’ minds are an international virus that will cause chaos, our many homes…02 Mar 2020HANSARD Elgin MarblesI am enjoying the history lesson, 204 years after the Select Committee of this House thoroughly investigated the acquisition and found it to be totally legal. However, the hon.…02 Mar 2020HANSARDRough SleepingI commend my right hon. Friend on his commitment and the additional investment by the Government, which is starting to bear fruit, although there is still much to say. I welcome…27 Feb 2020HANSARD Child ProtectionI refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I welcome these inspections, but the results are alarming. According to the NSPCC, a child is abused…27 Feb 2020HANSARDStillbirths1. What progress he has made on bringing into force the terms of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 to extend the power to coroners to…25 Feb 2020HANSARDStillbirthsIt is good to see my right hon. and learned Friend in his place and I know he is sympathetic to this, but the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsI had not intended to speak in this debate, but, as is usual with subjects brought here by the hon. Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris), it is difficult to resist; they are…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsThe problem is that nothing has been agreed, because the pregnancy loss review group has not met since 2018. If a report is imminent, it has not been approved by the panel…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsThat is right, but again, to give the Department of Health, the NHS and Ministers their due, there have been new innovations in internal inquiries into stillbirths that have made…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsThat is really the point that I was looking to make, but my right hon. Friend has done it much more clearly. If it had not been her intention already, perhaps a takeaway from this…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsMy right hon. Friend makes a good point about fathers. We talk a lot about the perinatal mental illness suffered by at least one in six women—and much more is being done about…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsI echo the Minister’s tribute to the hon. Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris). It is unimaginable to think that parents who lost their child through stillbirth were not even…06 Feb 2020HANSARDOperation AugustaFirst, I draw attention to my entry in the register. Secondly, I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Stringer) for bringing this case before the…05 Feb 2020HANSARDOperation AugustaMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; there are still serious shortcomings in this case, but I am trying to draw a picture of why things changed nationally and why there are grounds…05 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Soft power will be increasingly important in the post-Brexit world. Among the many international treasures the UK can marshal is the BBC World Service, with an audience of…04 Feb 2020HANSARDLeaving the EU: Human Rights14. What plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals for a UK autonomous global human rights sanctions regime after the UK leaves the EU.04 Feb 2020HANSARDLeaving the EU: Human RightsDoes my right hon. Friend agree that any new Magnitsky legislation must be targeted at the worst human rights abusers, including those perpetrating terror against minorities in…04 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusI commend the response by the Secretary of State and his Department, but without wishing to appear a conspiracy theorist, serious questions are going round about the role of the…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Middle East Peace PlanMy right hon. Friend is right that we need to get back to negotiation, and the UK has an important role to play in that. Baby steps, as he calls them, need to be viable to develop…30 Jan 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIs it not about time that we had a debate on the Church of England and sex? No sooner had my Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 become effective,…30 Jan 2020