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Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber (24 June 2013)

Accountability of police and crime commissioners – Keith Vaz. Adjournment debate

Sudan and South Sudan (18 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: Another problem is that of regional terrorism, whereby support is sometimes given by, for example, groups in Yemen to groups in Sudan that want to undermine what is happening there. A lot of evidence suggests that there are dealings between the two groups of terrorists, who seek to undermine both countries.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Baha’i (18 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: There are 7 million Baha’is living all over the world, many thousands in the United Kingdom. Would it be possible to contact the faith and religious groups in this country, such as the Muslim Council of Britain, to see whether they could act as a bridge to the spiritual leader to discuss the release of these prisoners?

Nato: Iran (17 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: May I press the Foreign Secretary on the issue of the embassy? Since it closed in November 2011, it has been very difficult for people to get visas to come here—it is a long and tortuous process. Given what has happened, he might not want to open an all-singing, all-dancing embassy, but at the very least giving people the opportunity to make applications to visit relatives in this...

Written Answers — Home Department: Europol (17 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Government (a) has made and (b) is planning to make representations to the European Commission on the funding of the Europol cybercrime centre.

Written Answers — Health: Health and Wellbeing Boards (17 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget for each Health and Wellbeing Board in England is.

Written Answers — Health: Health: Screening (17 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he has had with NHS England on increasing the uptake of NHS health checks.

Petitions: Global Food System (13 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: I rise to present a petition that has been collected by Sacred Heart Catholic voluntary academy, in Mere close in Leicester. A similar petition, with 1,000 signatures, was presented to Downing street this morning. The petition has been organised by Catherine McMillan and Catherine Hayles and the year 6 students, who seized on the idea and pushed it through. I also want to mention the...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online: EU Police, Justice and Home Affairs (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) who, along with other Members of the Select Committee on Home Affairs, will consider the list of opt-ins and opt-outs when the Home Secretary eventually sends it to the Committee, to the Select Committee on Justice and to the European Scrutiny Committee. I agree with a lot of what he said. International co-operation in the...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online: EU Police, Justice and Home Affairs (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: My right hon. Friend is absolutely right about that and it explains why part of the process is to talk to these countries and bilaterally engage, not on how they could improve their system, because that would be too patronising, but by explaining the effect their system is having on our country. That is why I welcomed your recent historic visit to Romania, Mr Speaker, when you were the first...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online: EU Police, Justice and Home Affairs (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: The Home Affairs Committee certainly looks forward to receiving the list when the Home Secretary has it ready. There is a measure on her desk at the moment concerning Europol that is not related to the opt-in/opt-out issue. It is very important that we sign up to it, because it affects the governance of that organisation, and I know that she is a supporter of Rob Wainwright and Europol. Is...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online: EU Police, Justice and Home Affairs (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: I realise that my right hon. Friend would quite like the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr Letwin)to be involved in these discussions, but I am a bit perplexed by the situation. Such an important question should really involve the Home Secretary. Does my right hon. Friend not agree that the Home Secretary should be there making the deals, rather than the Cabinet Office and the Treasury?

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd South (Susan Elan Jones). I declare myself a dinosaur where online issues are concerned. I was going to say the same thing about my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott), but she is much more modern than I am. Although she, I and you, Madam Deputy Speaker, were elected 26 years ago yesterday,...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: I will get into trouble with you, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I will give way briefly.

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: Yes, and I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for all the work he did in that area as Children’s Minister and since then. The internet companies must be proactive. They have to go in and clean up the internet. They cannot just sit back and allow others to do it for them. It is so difficult to get internet companies to appear before Select Committees. It takes an age to find them, and...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Official Development Assistance (12 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: How much of that percentage will be made available to the people of Yemen? Only yesterday, Jamal Benomar, the UN special representative, said that 1 million children were dying from malnutrition there. How can we save those children?

Children and Families Bill: Court of Justice of the European Union (11 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: I do not know whether that is an invitation for me to cross the Floor and tickle the tummy of the hon. Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg), although I would love to do it in normal circumstances. It is always a pleasure to follow him because he speaks so powerfully about these issues and studies them so carefully that he knows that a few months ago the Government promised to...

Children and Families Bill: Court of Justice of the European Union (11 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: I thank the Minister for that clarification and look forward to ensuring that that expectation is met. My final point relates to the speed of the Court. The hon. Member for North East Somerset wants the Court to slow down, because he believes that speeding it up will result in greater integration. I am in favour of speeding it up, which is why I support the proposal for move...

Children and Families Bill: Court of Justice of the European Union (11 June 2013)

Keith Vaz: First, I congratulate the Minister for Europe on his French pronunciation, which I thought was A*, as they say. I am in favour of more judges, as are the Government, but is the Minister satisfied that having more judges will result in quicker decisions? He knows that one of our concerns is that it takes too long to get judgments. Is he satisfied that by putting these extra judges on the...