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HANSARD Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill rose —15 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemEighty-six.09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemWill the hon. Gentleman give way?09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemIt is unfortunate that Back Benchers will have under a third of this already truncated debate on what is a very important subject, but I start by praising the Opposition for…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemI completely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend, because once those people make it into British territorial waters, they are in effect guaranteed to be living in the UK…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemThat is exactly right. Other countries have shown an interest in the scheme, as did the officials when we spoke to them in France, and other countries want a part of the action…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemThe right hon. Lady mentioned 34,000 cases so far since the printing of the Illegal Migration Bill. Of those cases, if people are found to have no credible case for asylum to stay…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way again, but she has answered a question that I did not ask. I was referring not to Albanians but to people from countries that…09 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI very much welcome the Minister’s approach, but I also pay tribute to the work that he did to raise the profile of this issue before he took on that role. This is a scandal of…08 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT9. Mr Speaker, as mine is the last name on the Order Paper, may I wish you and Mrs Speaker, and the two Front-Bench teams, a very happy Christmas? Notwithstanding his…19 Dec 2023HANSARDFlexible WorkingAs the Minister mentioned, the hospital industry—especially in coastal constituencies such as mine—is suffering disproportionately from high vacancy levels exacerbated by covid…18 Dec 2023HANSARDTrial of Jimmy LaiCan I thank you personally, Mr Speaker, for granting today’s urgent question? The pantomime trial of Jimmy Lai is just the tip of a huge iceberg of the Chinese Communist party’s…18 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I add my warm welcome to my near neighbour, the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex, as the new disabilities Minister?…18 Dec 2023HANSARDFlexible Working15. Whether he has made an assessment of the role of flexible working arrangements in supporting people to take up employment.18 Dec 2023HANSARDHome Affairs CommitteeAs a member of the Home Affairs Committee, I concur with everything the Chair has just said. She raised the very unsatisfactory absence of an Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner…14 Dec 2023HANSARDFraud and Economic Crime: ProsecutionsThe Solicitor General will be aware that the Home Affairs Committee has launched a review of fraud. Last week, we heard fascinating testimony on romance fraud from the victim of…07 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ5. I am getting fed up of sitting in traffic jams in my constituency caused by contractors digging up roads, involving lane closures and temporary traffic lights, often invoking…06 Dec 2023HANSARDUK-Rwanda PartnershipI echo the Home Secretary’s praise of the patience shown by Rwanda, whose integrity has been severely impugned by those who oppose the treaty. The Strasbourg Court recently said…06 Dec 2023HANSARDLegal MigrationThe net immigration figures are unsustainably high, notwithstanding the large element of Ukrainian and Hong Kong people coming here, so I welcome most of the proposals, and…04 Dec 2023HANSARDOffshore Wind SectorAs we know from the excellent Rampion wind farm in Sussex bay—hopefully it will soon be expanded—offshore wind farms support workers not just in energy production but in tourism,…28 Nov 2023