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Gas-fired Power Stations (13 Mar 2024)

Angus MacNeil: ...that this is a consultation, but have the Government picked a winner? What room have they given for storage to be in the mix? Are they confusing energy security—we have learned from the Ukraine war important how that is—with continual electricity supply? Given what the Minister says about the percentage of gas used by 2030 and after, what percentage of capacity will this provide, and...

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Topical Questions (12 Mar 2024)

Angus MacNeil: ...—says on camera: “Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza… I am not using an exaggeration. I’m talking literally starving a population. Israel is a criminal, is in non stop war crime status, now I believe in genocidal status, and it is without shame, without remorse, without truth, without insight into what it’s doing”, and adds: “This is a murderous gang in...

Immigration Rules and Border Security (20 Feb 2024)

Angus MacNeil: ...taking this urgent question. As you know, I tabled something similar after the BBC and The Guardian reported that the family unification route for Ukrainian families had been unexpectedly closed. I warned the Government against such mean-mindedness. The UK Government were the meanest-minded in Europe at the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, which caused a lot of work for civil servants, for...

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (14 Nov 2023)

Angus MacNeil: ...of my constituents want to see hon. Members in this place, including those on the Labour and Tory Benches, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. With one in 200 local Gazan people killed by the Israeli war machine, how much worse does it have to get before this place prioritises life over death and peace over war? The Minister says that Hamas may not want a ceasefire, so why do what Hamas wish?...

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Energy Infrastructure ( 5 Jul 2023)

Angus MacNeil: ...: the technical education sector has a lot to offer and Government must ensure that the funding is available for that training. We know that people are needed. If they show willing to come forward to be trained, they should have every support from Government to achieve that. Touching on the supply chain, I think since the bronze age about 700 million tonnes of copper have been mined, and...

Shellfish Aquaculture — [Julie Elliott in the Chair] (15 Mar 2023)

Angus MacNeil: The Minister and I go back quite a long way, and have had tug o’ wars in the Commons in the past. The hon. Member for Huddersfield makes a serious suggestion. While the Minister was right to point out the dangers of being trapped by a headline in the paper, far too often, good food production is overlooked—in the west of Scotland, as I have mentioned, and in other places in the UK. It is...

Backbench Business: International Mother Language Day — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] ( 1 Mar 2022)

Angus MacNeil: ...in Parliament with the Foreign Office’s help. I would encourage other Members to take that up; it is a fantastic opportunity. The hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse also said that culture wars were a mistake. That is absolutely right; they cut people off, as was mentioned by the hon. Member for Bolton North East (Mark Logan). I was fascinated to hear about his use of Mandarin at...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill ( 9 Jan 2020)

Angus MacNeil: ...have achieved in their victory. Numbers do not matter to a Tory party that was once obsessed with numbers. This is just the sweep of Brexit harking back to the 19th century and probably to opium wars and gunboat diplomacy. That is where their minds are stuck, sadly. The unfortunate thing is that the rest of us across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are going to pay a very...

Business Statement (15 Oct 2019)

Angus MacNeil: ...a bath as run a Brexit. Today is Tuesday and the UK Parliament cannot tell us if we are sitting on Saturday. This will be Brexit Saturday if we sit. Brexit Saturday will be in the company of world war two Saturday, Suez Saturday and Falklands Saturday. This calamity that the Leader of the House wants to visit on the country is not in the best of company. What will happen between now and...

Refugee Family Reunion (20 Jun 2019)

Angus MacNeil: I beg to move, That this House notes that 20 June is World Refugee Day; further notes that, with record levels of global displacement across the world, many refugee families have been separated by war and persecution; welcomes that in 2018 the UK granted 5,806 family reunion visas to partners and children of refugees in the UK; and calls on the Government to introduce reforms to family...

Refugee Family Reunion (20 Jun 2019)

Angus MacNeil: ..., in a way, it minimises or downplays the trauma some people have been through, but on the other hand it is a way of partially seeing ourselves in other people’s shoes. We are not quite escaping war and the threat of being killed, but moving for economic circumstances is a normal thing to do. The more we treat the situation as normal, as my hon. Friend clearly said, the better. Germany...

Speaker’S Statement: Business of the House (21 Feb 2019)

Angus MacNeil: ...—I learned this from the late Paul Flynn—nice tie, Mr Speaker? It is indeed one of the best. Paul once told me that he was named after the German soldier who spared his father’s life in world war one, and many were the stories Paul shared with us. First, I would like to say that it is good the business is out and we know what is happening on Wednesday. Again, we will be tabling an...

HMY Iolaire — [Mr Graham Stringer in the Chair] (12 Dec 2018)

Angus MacNeil: ...the Iolaire by going round and putting stones and marks in the 10 houses. There were 10 men from Sheshader on the Iolaire and all 10 drowned that day. The village had already lost 10 in world war one. There were 300 people living in Sheshader and Point. There are now 120. Incidentally, six were lost in world war two. The two people I mentioned have gone around and marked the ruins and...

HMY Iolaire — [Mr Graham Stringer in the Chair] (12 Dec 2018)

Angus MacNeil: ...a stone’s throw from their native island. I am also grateful to Poppyscotland for the creation of a badge that a number of us are wearing in Westminster Hall today: it has a poppy to mark the war and a bell to mark the Iolaire. The Iolaire was the worst peacetime disaster at sea for the UK since the sinking of the Titanic and the worst peacetime loss in Scottish or British waters in all...

Business of the House ( 1 Nov 2018)

Angus MacNeil: ...a special poppy pin from Poppyscotland, with a poppy and a ship’s bell marking the loss of HMY Iolaire, when at least 201 men perished of the 283 on board off Stornoway at the end of world war one. It is being suitably marked in Scotland, as it should be. As we approach Remembrance Sunday, however, I wonder whether the Leader of the House can offer a statement from the Ministry of...

Refugee Family Reunion (21 Jun 2018)

Angus MacNeil: ...have been made, so my best advice to people who have missed it is to look at Hansard tomorrow. Fantastic points were made by the hon. Members for Harborough (Neil O’Brien), for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng) and for Dudley South (Mike Wood). I note that the hon. Member for Spelthorne was somewhat hesitant, but we can work with hesitancy, and the rest of his speech was supportive, so I thank...

Refugee Family Reunion (21 Jun 2018)

Angus MacNeil: I beg to move, That this House notes that 18 to 24 June is Refugee Week; further notes that many families throughout the world have been torn apart by war and persecution; welcomes the fact that the Refugees (Family Reunion) (No.2) Bill was given its Second Reading without opposition on 16 March 2018; and calls on the Government to support the provisions of that Bill. It is a great...

Refugee Family Reunion (21 Jun 2018)

Angus MacNeil: ...jump from that frying pan into a very horrible fire. I have talked about my private Member’s Bill and what an independent Scotland would do, but I hope the Government will take these matters forward in an immigration Bill. It would be to their great credit if they did, and that could mean that my private Member’s Bill would be seen as redundant in the next few months. I know that an...

Military Action Overseas: Parliamentary Approval (17 Apr 2018)

Angus MacNeil: If it is the Executive’s idea to go to war or engage in military action, should not this House hold the Executive to account for their thoughts, ideas and policies?

Refugees (Family Reunion) (No.2) Bill (16 Mar 2018)

Angus MacNeil: ...we could be taking in, it is in our interests to do exactly this. That is especially true at a time when there are more refugees in the world than at any point since the end of the second world war. How can we comprehend their lives, stories and tragedies, and make sense collectively of all those statistics? This is hard to fathom when we start to think of numbers like 3,000. But today’s...


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