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HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeMay I first pay huge tribute to my hon. Friend, who has done such an extraordinary job? The amount of joy it has given me to welcome friends into this country has been frankly…06 Jan 2022HANSARDFCDO StaffingMay I first pay enormous tribute to my right hon. Friend for the work that he has done in his own part of the world as a Foreign Office Minister? The bilateral relationships that…16 Dec 2021HANSARDFCDO Staffing(Urgent Question): To ask the Foreign Secretary, or rather the Minister in his place, about staffing cuts in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.16 Dec 2021HANSARD Business of the HouseI am delighted to be able to wish a very merry Christmas to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to everyone here. However, there are some people who will not be celebrating quite as…16 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsI very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin), with its emphasis on global Britain and…15 Dec 2021HANSARDDavid Fuller CaseThis horrific crime has shocked many in Tonbridge, Edenbridge and Malling who use the hospital. I associate myself entirely with the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for…08 Nov 2021HANSARDEconomic and Security Ties with AlliesI very much welcome my right hon. Friend to her place at the Dispatch Box. Given her past experience and her former jobs, can she tell us how she will build on the economic power…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Arrest of Sudanese Prime MinisterI welcome the Minister’s words and the urgent question called by the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah). The reality is that this is a situation over which…25 Oct 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanI am delighted to hear from my right hon. Friend just now that Admiral Key has got a knighthood. There has not been one earned by anyone better for many years. The challenge of…21 Sept 2021HANSARD Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint CommitteeThe hon. Lady will know that, in all manner of ways, I support this Government, but on this single issue of foreign affairs it is my job to criticise and attack the Government…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint CommitteeI would be absolutely delighted to. As many Members of the House will know, I share any Member’s phone number with other Members once I have got their permission to do so, and if…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint CommitteeIt is a great pleasure to follow several hon. and right hon. Friends. I find myself in the unusual position of disagreeing with the Opposition and agreeing with those on the…15 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan PolicyFirst, I pay enormous tribute not only to my hon. Friend the Minister but to the Home Secretary, whom I was texting barely half an hour before I came into the Chamber about an…13 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO Responses to MembersAs everybody knows, the last few months have been an especially harrowing time for many of our staff, and the teams in constituency offices all over our islands have been frankly…09 Sept 2021HANSARDLegacy of Jo CoxMadam Deputy Speaker, thank you for calling me despite me charging into the Chamber, barely a second late. You may think that it is because my timekeeping is poor, but it was…09 Sept 2021HANSARDLegacy of Jo CoxI am enormously moved, and as somebody who is my girth and size knows, that is quite hard to achieve. It has been in thinking of the work that Jo and I did together that I have…09 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistanFirst, I pay tribute to the Prime Minister for his increased funding for mental health care for veterans. I am sure he will keep that sum under review, in case it should need to…06 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI am very grateful to my hon. Friend, who was watching the clock more than me. The second image is one that the forever war that has just reignited could lead to. It is the image…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanLike many veterans, this last week I have struggled through anger, grief and rage—through the feeling of abandonment of not just a country, but the sacrifice that my friends made.…18 Aug 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker, thank you very much for calling me. The line from Kent is pretty terrible, I am afraid, but that is a complaint for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and…20 Jul 2021