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HANSARDUkraine: Military Support8. What recent steps his Department has taken to provide military support to Ukraine.26 Jun 2023HANSARD Sudan: AtrocitiesA systemic ethnic cleansing is happening in Darfur right now. Last Sunday, 100 members of the Darfur diaspora in the UK met. Every person had lost several members of their family…22 Jun 2023HANSARD Sudan: Atrocities( Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if he will make a statement regarding the rapid acceleration of atrocities in…22 Jun 2023HANSARD Ukraine Recovery ConferenceI congratulate everybody involved in the conference. It was an honour to meet many of the delegates last night, and the Minister is absolutely right about the great atmosphere of…22 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fifth sitting)For the record, when the DMU tells a company what to do, does the Minister agree that that should always be done as quickly as possible, given that there may be technical changes…20 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fifth sitting)I want to be quick. I really care about this Bill, because it is incredibly important for our constituents, who are consumers, to ensure that they are offered fair choices and…20 Jun 2023HANSARDUgandan School AttackI thank my good friend, the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), for securing this urgent question. I have visited schools in Uganda. They should be happy and safe places.…20 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fifth sitting)I am very fond of the hon. Member and she has a beautiful voice, but she did complain earlier about how long it had taken this Bill to get to market. I urge her to remember that…20 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q Have you looked at how other Parliaments scrutinise their regulators in this space? Is there best practice that we should be looking at? I recall my time in Europe, when we had…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q You have mentioned a few times the importance of accountability to Parliament. I guess that needs transparency so you can get scrutiny. Do you think there is adequate…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fourth sitting)Q But I thought that you were trying to say to us that, where there was an issue, you would work to get that resolved really quickly with the competition authorities. Tom…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fourth sitting)Q What about this latest one, on ad tech, which has been going on for two years? Tom Morrison-Bell: The Commission’s inquiry process has been going on for two years, rather than a…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q How quickly have we gone from zero to 30%? Gene Burrus: In 2008, it was zero, and the 30% probably came in about 2012. Once the markets settled down and it was clear that there…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q Can you give us an example of the rent inflation you mentioned? For the app, how much would they have been paying five years ago and what are they being charged now, just to…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you see Google and Apple acting in collusion and taking similar moves, or are they different moves? Do you see examples where they are putting similar blocks against…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q I am not asking that. I am asking whether your members have experience of other places where they think it works better or worse. Neil Ross: They certainly do, and we can get…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fourth sitting)Q So it is six years of appeals. Tom Morrison-Bell: But, importantly, the remedy that was agreed by the Commission has been in place for six years. That is not necessarily going…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q But you have not given your thoughts as an industry as to how we could approve it? Neil Ross: Not really. I do not think we would necessarily go so far as to advise Parliament…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Christian, do you see them acting—do you think they are in collusion? Christian Owens: I would not want to say that that is definitely happening. I think it is rather…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fourth sitting)Q If you are so keen at Google to work with the CMA and other competition authorities to get issues resolved quickly, why did Kelkoo tell us this morning that its issue is…15 Jun 2023