🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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I totally agree with my hon. Friend that people’s freedom to practise religion, and to eat meat produced as they feel it should be produced, is vital. Does he agree that this is really a matter of protecting animals? A bad abattoir is a bad abattoir, whatever process it might carry out. That is what we should stamp out: bad abattoirs, not the method by which the animals are slaughtered.
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I have a petition signed by 4,864 people to save the Oakfield site, which covers playing fields and a sports area on green-belt land. Sadly, the London borough of Redbridge has put out to consultation a proposal to build homes on the site. There are brownfield sites in the area that have not yet been built on and should perhaps be looked at as a matter of urgency before the proposal is even...
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I have a petition signed by 676 people declaring that they are extremely concerned, as I am, at the high level of reported accidents—averaging one per week—as well as the potential for fatal accidents at the Redbridge roundabout, which is a major junction of the M11, the north circular and the A12. There needs to be urgent action to stop what has become a nightmare for residents of the...
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Does the hon. Lady agree that arresting people who are giving evidence is not in any way helpful or beneficial to an investigation, and that the new Government of Sri Lanka must put an immediate stop to that? Anyone who gives evidence to such an investigation should be able to do it freely and in an unfettered manner.
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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Caton. May I ask everyone’s forgiveness as, perhaps to a lot of people’s delight, I am losing my voice, so I might not speak for as long as I would normally? The timing of the debate is opportune, because the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), is in Sri Lanka...
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The hon. Gentleman is right. The new President was a member of the same party as his predecessor. He then changed parties and stood against the previous President, and some of the things that have happened early in his presidency are of concern. For example, General Sarath Fonseka, who is named as an alleged war criminal by the United Nations panel of experts—it is the UN saying that, not...
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The Minister needs to say, “Please honour what the UN, the Prime Minister of Britain on his visit to Sri Lanka, the President of America and various other Heads of State have asked for.” There is only one way in which there can be justice. I emphasise, as I have in many previous debates, that my role is not to say who is guilty or innocent, but we need answers about those people who lost...
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The hon. Gentleman is perfectly correct that the new Government would have been aware of the report. Only a political solution that recognises the rights of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, including that to self-determination, can address the root cause of the conflict. The Sri Lankan constitution already provides for an autonomous assembly, much as Scotland or Wales has in the United Kingdom....
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to protect the health of UK diplomatic staff and their dependents in West African nations affected by the ebola outbreak; and what monitoring of their health is available to them on their return to the UK.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the effects on the defence and security of Scotland of being part of the UK.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on whether senior commanders from Iran's Quds Force are assisting President Bashar Assad in Syria.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the overall fairness of both the level of charge and the enforcement procedure of penalty charge notices issued on behalf of local authorities.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make an assessment of the findings of the report entitled Ruled Out, published in February 2014 by Ambitious About Autism, that substantial numbers of autistic children are being unlawfully excluded from schools.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans his Department has to provide ambulance crews with additional specialised equipment to allow them to deal safely with moving larger patients.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department has taken to encourage other nations in the region to support the UK's anti-drug smuggling operations in the Caribbean.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department is taking to further improve the Royal Navy's anti-smuggling operations in the Caribbean.
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