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Backbench Business: National Numeracy Day — [Dame Maria Miller in the Chair] (18 May 2023)

Stephen Morgan: ...for Richmond (Yorks) (Rishi Sunak), said that he had “maxed out” funding for children. The hugely damaging impact of the Prime Minister’s inaction on children’s learning of maths—his alleged priority—is only beginning to become clear. In the debate, all Members have said that improving numeracy for children and adults is extremely important. The first step to addressing the...

Appointment of Lord Lebedev (29 Mar 2022)

Stephen Morgan: ...been donated to the party, its MPs and local associations by Aquind or its company directors. Recent investigations have revealed that one of its directors, Mr Fedotov, benefited from $4 billion alleged fraud in Putin’s Russia. Both Mr Fedotov and Mr Temerko have undertaken a co-ordinated effort to influence the Conservative party into support for their disastrous project, which would...

School Rebuilding Programme: [Mrs Maria Miller in the Chair] (22 Mar 2022)

Stephen Morgan: ...a postcode lottery on school repairs, which they know will not clear the backlog. In the meantime, dedicated teachers and parents are left to make do with leaking facilities, dangerous wiring or allegedly temporary cabins that were built a decade ago. Well-meaning right hon. and hon. Members come to this place, caps in hand, to plead with Ministers on the merits of individual schools....

Treasury: Topical Questions ( 7 Dec 2021)

Stephen Morgan: ...’s Russia. Can the Minister say what due diligence has been done on the project company and its owners, and if he and ministerial colleagues will protect our national infrastructure from these alleged fraudsters by stopping the disastrous project once and for all?

Aquind Interconnector (13 Jul 2021)

Stephen Morgan: ..., the concerns over the company’s relationship with a string of Government Ministers, some of whom are directly responsible for making decisions about whether the scheme goes ahead. Whatever the alleged merits of the scheme may be, to ignore the overwhelmingly negative impact that it would have on Portsmouth residents, its businesses and the environment would be a dereliction of duty. I...

Armed Forces Bill: Clause 1 - Duration of Armed Forces Act 2006 (23 Jun 2021)

Stephen Morgan: ...Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021 failed to prevent the cycle of reinvestigations; it dealt only with prosecutions. Of the more than 4,000 criminal investigations and allegations arising out of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2000, only 27—less than 1%—ever got to prosecution and all 27 were brought within three years. At the same time, of the approximately 1,000...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Tigray: Human Rights (23 Apr 2021)

Stephen Morgan: ...to Question 161799 on Ethiopia: Violence, if he will make further representations to his counterpart in the Government of Ethiopia on the need for independent, international, investigations into allegations of human right abuses and violations in the Tigray region of that country.

Public Bill Committee: Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: New Clause 3 - Access to legal advice for service personnel (22 Oct 2020)

Stephen Morgan: ...else, while I was driving home. It is rather unpleasant to discover on the radio that your own Army accuses you of killing somebody in Iraq, three years after you have already been cleared of that allegation.” Sadly, the situation got worse. In relation to the civil claim made by Leigh Day in 2010, Major Campbell went on to say “we were ordered to give another statement and we were...

Public Bill Committee: Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (22 Oct 2020)

Stephen Morgan: ...The courts were still able to identify systematic rights abuses and systematic flaws on the part of the Bill relevant to the British colonial administration. This is evidence of the fallacy of the allegation that effective investigations can never take place well after the fact due to a loss of evidence or decreasing reliability of evidence over time”. That is a lengthy quote, but I...

Public Bill Committee: Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Clause 3 - Matters to be given particular weight (14 Oct 2020)

Stephen Morgan: ...Afghanistan have been accused of genocide, yet it is not excluded as an offence in the Bill. As a former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, put it: “This could create the bizarre outcome that an allegation of torture or murder would not be prosecuted when a sexual offence arising out of the same incident could be.” As the Minister wrote the Bill, can he take us through sub-paragraphs...

Public Bill Committee: Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Clause 2 - Presumption against prosecution (14 Oct 2020)

Stephen Morgan: ...because…A prosecution is not in the interests of justice, taking into account all the circumstances, including the gravity of the crime, the interests of victims and the age or infirmity of the alleged perpetrator, and his or her role in the alleged crime”. The written evidence goes on to say, however, that the ICC Office of the Prosecutor said that “only in exceptional circumstances...

Public Bill Committee: Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Clause 1 - Prosecutorial decision regarding alleged conduct during overseas operations (14 Oct 2020)

Stephen Morgan: ...be covered by the Bill. Last week, Dr Jonathan Morgan also stated that Major Bob Campbell’s case would not have been addressed by these proposals. He was prosecuted in 2006 in connection with an alleged offence in 2003, which would have been within the five-year period for bringing a prosecution. It is only in 2020, after 17 years, that he has finally been cleared. Several hon. Members...

Public Bill Committee: Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Clause 1 - Prosecutorial decision regarding alleged conduct during overseas operations (14 Oct 2020)

Stephen Morgan: Thank you, Mr Stringer, I was about to get to the point around our amendment. Part 1 sets a five-year limit on the prosecution of current or former armed forces personnel for alleged offences committed in the course of duty while overseas, save for exceptional circumstances. That would mean that the Bill would halve the timeframe initially envisaged for the prosecution of offences. The...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill (23 Sep 2020)

Stephen Morgan: ...Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) said that Britain must uphold its commitment to human rights. I agree with him that we cannot afford to become an outlier among our allies by refusing to investigate allegations of some of the gravest crimes imaginable. I am most concerned by the Bill’s potential infringement of the rights of Her Majesty’s forces. I share the view of the Royal British...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pakistan: Non-governmental Organisations ( 9 Mar 2020)

Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Pakistani counterpart on the restrictions alleged to have been placed by that country on the activities of NGOs and aid organisations in the Balochistan region.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pakistan: Human Rights ( 9 Mar 2020)

Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of allegations that British made arms have been used in human rights abuses in Balochistan.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pakistan: Human Rights ( 6 Feb 2020)

Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in Pakistan on alleged human rights abuses in Balochistan; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pakistan: Human Rights ( 6 Feb 2020)

Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in Pakistan on the safety of journalists reporting on alleged human rights abuses in Balochistan; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pakistan: Human Rights ( 6 Feb 2020)

Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the number of people dying due to alleged human rights abuses in Balochistan.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Israel: Palestinians ( 4 Feb 2020)

Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions has he had with his counterpart in the Israeli Government on allegations of torture committed by Israeli government interrogators against journalism student Mays Abu Ghosh.


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