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HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillThe hon. Lady will forgive me for picking just a very small hole in her argument. One of the very few policies on which President-elect Biden and President Trump, and indeed even…30 Nov 2020HANSARD Official Development AssistanceIt feels almost rude to interrupt a private dialogue. I understand the pain that this economic collapse is causing all of us. I have just received the appalling news that the…26 Nov 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastFirst, may I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend, who has the most extraordinarily difficult job in juggling the nation’s finances at this time? I pay tribute to him for his…25 Nov 2020HANSARDASEAN Countries: UK RelationsI very much welcome my hon. Friend’s efforts with ASEAN and his emphasis on the Indo-Pacific. He will no doubt have seen the fantastic Policy Exchange report by my hon. Friend the…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Nigeria: Sanctions RegimeThank you for calling me to speak, Mr Gray. It is a pleasure to follow my friend, the hon. Member for Edmonton (Kate Osamor), who speaks quite rightly with passion about one of…23 Nov 2020HANSARDIntegrated ReviewFirst, may I hugely welcome this announcement? It is a fantastic statement of resolve for the UK at home and abroad. It does more than guarantee the future of the Black Watch. It…19 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillThe right hon. Gentleman is of course right that there is a difference between the United States and the United Kingdom. One difference is that there are 350 million people in the…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI start, as many other hon. Members rightly have, by paying tribute to the ministerial team and the team of civil servants for their consultation on the Bill with not just Members…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI agree entirely with the right hon. Member that what we are looking at here is a multi-agency taskforce, not a BEIS departmental body. The reason, of course, why it has to be a…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillDoes the right hon. Gentleman agree that there is a real role for Committees of this House in such processes and that the ability to subpoena both witnesses and papers would add…17 Nov 2020HANSARDHong KongI welcome my hon. Friend’s designation that this is the third breach of the Sino-British joint declaration, and I do not think that anybody in this House disagrees with him. After…12 Nov 2020HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI pay tribute to the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq) for securing this urgent question on such an important matter. Her campaign for her constituent Nazanin…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Syria: Humanitarian SituationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. Most of all, it is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern). She was extremely kind at…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI am sorry, but the right hon. Member is completely wrong. If he reads “The Fog of Law” written by—oh—me in 2013, a paper for Policy Exchange written alongside actual lawyers,…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillThe right hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) set me a target of 30 minutes, Madam Deputy Speaker, and you have reduced it to eight. It is a crying shame. The Bill’s…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI will carry on. It is also an issue for the human rights of some of the people we are fighting. Bizarrely, there were situations in Afghanistan where individuals could only be…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI will not give way any more; I could have two interventions, and they are done. We see again and again how legal intervention could be used to try to prevent operations. That,…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI am sorry that the hon. Member is failing to see it, because I thought I explained it quite clearly with the Ukraine example. We also see in other operations how the use of law…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend knows very well that the big challenge of lockdown for many people is the loss of agency, the loss of control over their own lives, and the inability…02 Nov 2020HANSARDForeign Affairs CommitteeThe truth, as my right hon. Friend knows—my hon. Friend, I mean, although I have no doubt that she is very soon to be right honourable—is that the people of Bishop Auckland depend…22 Oct 2020