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HANSARDBeijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Government SanctionsI am delighted to support my right hon. Friend in his powerful speech. Does he remember the words of the Chinese ambassador to Stockholm, who said only a few months ago: “We treat…15 Jul 2021HANSARDBeijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Government SanctionsI am delighted to be in the Chamber listening to this extremely important speech from my hon. Friend. Does he recall that we had our own contribution to the silencing of debate,…15 Jul 2021HANSARDNewport Wafer Fab SaleI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for The Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) for the timing of his urgent question—which is clearly rather better than my timing. May…15 Jul 2021HANSARDBeijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Government SanctionsIt is a great privilege to speak in this debate. It echoes some of the comments that the Foreign Affairs Committee, which I am privileged to chair—one fellow member of the…15 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateMy hon. Friend is completely correct. Of course, the reality is that we are not living in a vacuum—we are not taking these decisions with nobody watching. Our friends are watching…13 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateI am delighted to be called, and I pay enormous tribute to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is sitting on the Front Bench today. The Chancellor demonstrated during his career…13 Jul 2021HANSARD AfghanistanMay I first say thank you to the Prime Minister for coming and giving this statement himself? This is an enormously personal issue for me. I did not meet the hon. Member for…08 Jul 2021HANSARD EU Settlement SchemeI am delighted to hear my hon. Friend making these statements. Is he aware that if he had applied for settled status in France, he would probably be queuing up even now, and that…07 Jul 2021HANSARD EU Settlement SchemeI am absolutely delighted to hear this speech, because the hon. Gentleman is explaining the complexities of leaving a Union that we were part of for about 40 years, yet somehow he…07 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am delighted to speak in this debate and to speak in favour of new clause 17, which is tabled in my name. I am delighted that many hon. Members on both sides have expressed…05 Jul 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have spoken to the Mines Advisory Group about its work in Lebanon, which has been so important, not just in promoting our interests. Sadly,…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilMy right hon. Friend makes an essential point: the OECD definition of what is “ODA-able” is historically anachronistic. He is right to say that we need to update it and that…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilThe hon. Member is making a very good point. Does he agree that we could learn, although perhaps only in this example, from the US Congress, the French Parliament and a few other…30 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance and the British CouncilI will not go over the point about 0.7% and 0.5%, because I think the House knows my view. I share absolutely the views of the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) and my…30 Jun 2021HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsThe Prime Minister knows that treaties can occasionally be negotiated and not quite make it through the House of Commons. In the interests of ensuring that we deliver what we need…16 Jun 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome my right hon. Friend’s comments about the workers serving so bravely in the HALO Trust in Afghanistan. He knows as well as I do that many other people are serving the…15 Jun 2021HANSARD EthiopiaI welcome the urgent question from my hon. Friend the Member for Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson), which could not be more important given the tragic scenes we are seeing in Tigray at…14 Jun 2021HANSARDUyghur Tribunal: LondonI very much welcome the urgent question; my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) is absolutely right to ask it and to focus on the…14 Jun 2021HANSARD British CouncilIt was very welcome to hear the Minister’s defence of the spending going towards the British Council and the way in which the Department and the Government have supported this…08 Jun 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am sure my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister remembers with great fondness his trip in July last year to the Discovery School in Kings Hill, but he probably remembers best…26 May 2021