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HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsAll right, the figure may be 10 if I have missed one out, but, in hurriedly putting some notes together, I could remember nine. I chair the APPG for children, which is a…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsThose sort of details are helpful. I understand how the transition arrangements impact the all-party groups themselves. However, to take my situation, I will have to give up the…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI hear what the hon. Member says, and I do not demur. I said at the outset that I thought there were too many APPGs. For example, dozens of them have some connection with…19 Jul 2023HANSARDRetail CrimeAbsolutely. I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman said earlier about how we underplay the significance of this issue, which acts as a green light for other people to…19 Jul 2023HANSARDRetail CrimeI am very grateful to the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley) for letting me make a short—perhaps uncharacteristically short, some might say—contribution rather than…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsHe say no. [Laughter.]19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsThe Father of the House, my constituency neighbour, makes a very helpful suggestion. I do not understand the rush in any case. As the motion stands, I cannot support it. It would…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsIt was David Heathcoat-Amory who set up the British Museum group, but that is neither here nor there. On most of the all-party groups where I am chair, I am actually co-chair, so…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsTherein lies the problem. There is no common year end for all APPGs. We had the AGM of the all-party parliamentary group for photography at the beginning of this week, because…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsThat is absolutely right, but although they are not Select Committees they can adopt a Select Committee style in taking evidence in order to produce reports. The Select Committee…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI am referring to the second report because we are discussing the second report. Because there was quite a gap between this study being initiated and this final report being…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI think I have to declare an interest because—I have totted them up—I am the chair of nine APPGs at the moment.19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsAll right then, I will, but my concern is that there has been very little profile for this report and study. I notice that only one Member of Parliament submitted written evidence…19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsBut the Chairman of the Standards Committee is probably about to correct me.19 Jul 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary Groupsrose—19 Jul 2023HANSARDHong Kong Nationals Living Overseas: Arrest WarrantsThe Chinese communist Government have broken British laws in their threats against people legitimately given safety in the United Kingdom. If my right hon. Friend and other…18 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillWe have had this conversation before. The hon. Gentleman knows that when we were covered by Dublin—before we came out of it through Brexit—there were more than 8,000 requests for…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI will happily withdraw that, Madam Deputy Speaker, if I can have my minute back. I declare an interest as the chairman of a safeguarding board of a children’s company. I was…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is always an experience to follow the hon. Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock). It was once said that someone who had just met his father had…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Hong Kong UpdateAnother Thursday, another opportunity to condemn China missed by the Government. I am afraid that the Minister has just parroted the words of the Foreign Secretary when he said:…13 Jul 2023