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HANSARD Child Cruelty Offences: SentencingThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to you for being in the Chair this afternoon, and I am grateful to be called to speak about what is a very important subject, not just…11 Sept 2020HANSARDIsraelMy right hon. Friend knows very well that one of the reasons for the proximity between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is the pressure put on both by the Iranian regime, and…08 Sept 2020HANSARDForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeI thank my right hon. Friend for bringing together these two important Departments. First, I want to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed…02 Sept 2020HANSARDChinaI thank again—I am getting into a bad habit here—my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary for an extremely good policy change. This makes the fifth, by my count, that he has…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBritish Overseas Troops: Civil Liability ClaimsThe first time I met my hon. Friend the Minister, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, both of us had somewhat smaller bellies and somewhat shorter hair. The lesson that we learnt out there…16 Jul 2020HANSARDBahrain: Prisoners Under Sentence of DeathI very much welcome the urgent question from my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing West (Sir Peter Bottomley). I draw my right hon. Friend the Minister’s attention to the Foreign…09 Jul 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceI must say that I agree with almost every word that my friend the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) has shared with the House. There are very few who could praise the…09 Jul 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceI will answer that with just a few words. Tax is money taken by force. It must be scrutinised by this House to ensure it is being spent appropriately and correctly. That is why I…09 Jul 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceThat is only true because of the assiduous nature with which my right hon. Friend and others have supervised the spending. There are other organisations that spend in other ways…09 Jul 2020HANSARDGlobal Human Rights Sanctions RegimeI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend. We have been waiting for a while for excellent foreign policy suggestions, but we have had three in the past three weeks—one on British…06 Jul 2020HANSARDHong Kong National Security LegislationI welcome the bipartisan nature of this discussion and the fact that both sides of the House so clearly agree that this is a violation of the Sino-British joint declaration. I…01 Jul 2020HANSARDForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeMay I welcome the words of my right hon. Friend this morning? When he listens to the different aid agencies that have supported the merger, such as the Carronbridge-based HALO…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Civil Service AppointmentsHaving served in Afghanistan with Sir Mark, can I add my thanks to him as a hugely distinguished civil servant, diplomat and indeed, in many ways, our top securocrat? Can I also…30 Jun 2020HANSARDXinjiang: UyghursI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and associate myself, somewhat surprisingly, with the words of the Labour…29 Jun 2020HANSARDDFID-FCO MergerMy right hon. Friend has already spoken about various opportunities. Will he please speak very clearly about the ethos of the international aid Department, and how much that ethos…18 Jun 2020HANSARD Global BritainI am very glad that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been listening to a few of the things I have said over the last three years. Bringing strategic alignment to…16 Jun 2020HANSARDHong Kong National Security Legislation: UK ResponseI hugely welcome the statement from my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary. May I also say that I welcome a noticeably different attitude from the Opposition Front Bench in…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Repatriation of UK NationalsThank you for calling me to speak today, Mr Speaker. First, may I say “Congratulations” to the Prime Minister, and “Ramadan kareem” to the many in our community who are…29 Apr 2020HANSARDCoronavirus BillI thank my right hon. Friend for the time he has taken in explaining at every stage how he has used the powers of his office to this House and, indeed, to the people through the…23 Mar 2020HANSARD Coronavirus BillIt is interesting to note that in Spain, where this issue has been considered, the Government are running a scheme where if an individual goes into a pharmacy and asks for a “mask…23 Mar 2020