Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will extend the global resettlement scheme to Sudanese refugees fleeing conflict.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider prioritising asylum applications submitted by asylum seekers from Sudan who have recently in Northern Ireland to offer protection to those who have challenged the military regime in that country and their families.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Independent Monitoring Authority's recent decision on the legality of the Government's policy with respect to the Withdrawal Agreement and the rights of EU citizens in the UK.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions his Department has had with Ofgem on support for households most affected by the rise in the cost of energy prices.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what additional steps his Department has taken to help support households most affected by the rise in the cost of energy prices.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of temporarily cutting VAT on energy to assist vulnerable households with rising energy costs.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional facilities and services are in place to meet the needs of asylum seekers accommodated in hotels in Northern Ireland.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to expediate her Department's processing of applications of asylum seekers housed in hotels.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to source additional appropriate accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timeframe is for the allocation of funding to brain tumour research.
Claire Hanna: Does the Minister accept that the UK is a sovereign nation and that deciding—for the protection of all its businesses and particularly for the fragile area of Northern Ireland—to make sure there is no divergence between Britain and Northern Ireland and to have an SPS arrangement based on dynamic alignment would be a sovereign decision? That would be a decision of a responsible Government...
Claire Hanna: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees. I thank the hon. Member for Rochdale (Tony Lloyd) for bringing the debate and for his long-standing and genuine commitment to achieving good outcomes for Northern Ireland. I know that is a common cause for many hon. Members across the House, for which we are grateful. Divergence and potential divergence on veterinary and SPS...
Claire Hanna: The point is that the UK has made it very clear that it will not sign up to commit to those rules. That is fundamentally the issue—that the UK has not agreed, as a continuum, to adhere to those rules. Yes, obviously the soil has not changed over the new year, so I understand some of the frustrations, but those could be addressed by exactly the sort of veterinary arrangement that the hon....
Claire Hanna: They are issues that flow from Brexit and from the trade and co-operation agreement voted through by a large majority in the sovereign Parliament of the UK. I did not support it. The hon. Member did not support it. But that was the settled arrangement.
Claire Hanna: I am happy to remind the hon. Member. It is all over Hansard and in TV clips. I think it was one Mr Boris Johnson and one Lord David Frost. I believe that at Christmas-time they told us that it was oven ready and ready to go, but it was clearly not. These are all consequences that flowed from a series of decisions. As I say, business did not want to change the status quo. Businesses outlined...
Claire Hanna: No, my children are not seed potato fans. As I said, we are dealing with a series of responses—the consequences of the UK’s decisions and, as I said, they are the UK’s decisions. I do not agree with them. It is very clear that people in Northern Ireland wanted something different. That is a fact. I do not want to get into—we are talking about the practical issues and I am aware that...
Claire Hanna: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of the independent Uyghur Tribunal announced on 9 December 2021; and what steps she plans to take in response to those findings.
Claire Hanna: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard, and I thank the hon. Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones) for securing this debate. The issue of abortion in Northern Ireland is challenging for many people. Many of us, myself included, have had to go on a real journey of compassion and learning over several years. I am very aware of the sensitivities around it and of the...
Claire Hanna: The Lord Chancellor’s statement made a cursory reference to the devolved regions. I am not sure if he ever got round to reading all of the Good Friday agreement after he revealed at the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that he had not read it, but the prospect of the Human Rights Act was critical in those negotiations and has proved crucial in the years since, both for victims and...