Bob Stewart: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will review policy on the disqualification for life from jury service of people who have had mental health problems.
Bob Stewart: Does my right hon. Friend agree that a minimum of £225 plus VAT a day for a barrister in a court case is very fair?
Bob Stewart: Next week, a group of parliamentarians from this House and the other place is to visit Gibraltar for the national day celebrations. May we have a statement from my right hon. Friend sending greetings to the people of Gibraltar on that important event?
Bob Stewart: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of efforts by the EU to create a lasting political solution in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bob Stewart: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he has taken to ensure the survival of Regimental Headquarters of the Cheshire Regiment, at Chester Castle, following the amalgamation of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment in the Mercian Regiment. [R]
Bob Stewart: As I understand it, on 18 July the Leader of the House gave a timetable for this Bill and there was no objection to it.
Bob Stewart: As I understand it, 38 Degrees was invited to be briefed by the Government on the Bill but did not turn up, which is sad.
Bob Stewart: To the best of my memory, it has pneumatic tyres and a chain.
Bob Stewart: Let me make this announcement immediately: I am going to dust off my old bike and get cycling. That will help me to live for two more years.
Bob Stewart: What chance is there of our reintroducing a maritime patrol aircraft in the near future?
Bob Stewart: Whatever we do, we must be quite precise about it. People talk about an exit strategy, but I have never seen an exit strategy in any other military conflict. I went into Bosnia with no mission whatever, but with just one idea: to save people’s lives. That is what we should be doing: saving the lives of people in Syria if we can.
Bob Stewart: I will make one point. I very carefully studied United Nations Security Council resolutions in 1992 as an authority for action. It is only the Security Council of the UN, as it is currently constituted, that will give authority for international action under article 6 or article 7.
Bob Stewart: I was an officer trained in nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, and one of the things that I learned on my course was that only a professional army could manage and use chemical weapons. There is no doubt in my mind that the rebels would not have the capacity or the ability to use such weapons. I am sure that when the report comes back from the United Nations inspectors, it will not be...
Bob Stewart: Will the hon. Lady give way?
Bob Stewart: I want to place on record that I personally condemn what is happening to the Bedu. I used to live in the area. I think it is disgraceful that there are two kinds of people—Israelis and the others—on the west bank, and that the law is different for each of them. It is appalling.
Bob Stewart: Someone has to regulate e-cigarettes, but if they are not regulated as a medicine or cigarettes, who will do it?
Bob Stewart: Will the Minister give way?
Bob Stewart: What advice would the Minister give to head teachers about parents, albeit a small percentage of them, who simply do not encourage their children to perform academically? What can be done about that?
Bob Stewart: I thank my hon. and gallant Friend for allowing me to intervene. I was a staff officer in the Ministry of Defence in 1984, when the world was black and white. I well remember Michael Heseltine introducing a system called “lean look and sharp sword”, which we were told would sort out procurement for ever. I totally agree with the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas...
Bob Stewart: There is no question; it is a statement. We have not got the solution and we will still have a problem.