REPRESENTATION
Representation of the People Bill Report
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Jim Allister
Traditional Unionist VoiceMP for North Antrim
What Jim said this week
STATEMENT
Statement Direction of Government
“Today, the Prime Minister has spoken with great passion about empowering local people and allowing them to make decisions that affect their own lives. On that theme, could I ask the Prime Minister what action will he take to restore United …”
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Questions
Oral questions: Northern Ireland
“Ministers from the Northern Ireland Office talk rather glibly about these matters, but the lived reality of the supply chain is very different: a full international customs border that is now inflicting damage on the import of steel; tighte…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Steel Tariffs: Northern Ireland
“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade to make a statement on steel tariffs in relation to Northern Ireland.…”
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Debate
Northern Ireland Office
“In introducing the debate, the honourable Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi), the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, lamented the failure of the Northern Ireland Executive to agree a budget; indeed, for any of the parties in …”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Asylum Accommodation
“The Minister said that the business of this Government was to secure the borders of this nation. In that context, can I therefore ask him how many of the buses travelling through the open back door into the United Kingdom from the Irish Rep…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Prisoner Early Release
“Surely the Minister must agree that sustaining and instilling confidence in victims is essential to securing and sustaining prosecutions, and therefore any indication that there could be early release of such a person is bound to undermine …”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Pathways Study: Puberty Suppression
“The Health Secretary told us that his bottom line was to protect children, but he also conceded that puberty blockers can affect adversely bone density and brain development, so why is he taking the risk? Our 11-year-olds are not guinea pig…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Steel Tariffs
“For Northern Ireland, there is both a key sovereignty question and a key economic question. Because of the iniquity of our being subject to EU law, we are already under EU tariffs when it comes to steel imports and quotas, paying 25% once w…”
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Legislation
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
“Does the honourable Member agree that, given that Transport for London now has 500 Chinese buses ordered and on the streets of London, there is a glaring opportunity for huge embarrassment to this nation if those kill switches were ever use…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Social Media Ban for Under-16s
“I greatly welcome the ban and the fact that it will apply across the United Kingdom. Is the Secretary of State satisfied that there are no cross-border loopholes such as virtual private networks with the Irish Republic that could be exploit…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Belfast: Violent Disorder
“All that the perpetrators of last night’s dreadful violence did was terrorise the innocent, inflict harm on their own communities, and distract from the awfulness of the north Belfast attack—and, indeed, distract from the many peaceful prot…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: North Belfast: Violent Attack
“We are all shocked by the sheer savagery of this attack. Indeed, the only bright spot in this orgy of violence was the brave intervention of local citizens, whose courage we salute. What I want to know, and what I know that my constituents …”
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Questions
Oral questions: Northern Ireland
“I welcome the rebuff in the Dillon judgment for the article 2 expansionist demands of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Does the Secretary of State accept that rights in Northe…”
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Legislation
Armed Forces Bill
“The amendment to bring the Greater London Authority within scope of the covenant duty focuses my mind on the fact that this Bill applies the covenant to all local authorities in all parts of the United Kingdom, except the district councils …”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Murder of Henry Nowak
“When the race card was played by his murderer, was Henry Nowak treated differently because of the colour of his skin, causing the innocent victim to be handcuffed and the murderer to be pandered to?…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Equality Act 2010: Code of Practice
“I suggest to the Minister that the very clear Supreme Court judgment and the resulting guidance render the Gender Recognition Act 2004 irrational. That Act persists with the fiction that by filling out a few forms, someone can change their …”
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Debate
Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
“It is strikingly surreal to be debating a King’s Speech from a Government who are patently on their last legs. This is the King’s Speech of a Prime Minister who is working out his notice in Downing Street. It is equally surreal that after t…”
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Debate
Debate on the Address
“Prime Minister, in my part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, we have been subjected for some years to the humiliation of being governed by laws that we do not make and cannot change. Yet you, Prime Minister, now seem to want to impos…”
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Legislation
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill (Carry-over)
“rose —…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Dunmurry Police Station Attack
“Following two car bomb attacks in one month, what my constituents want to know is what will be done to snuff out this terrorist threat before it develops further—and that must include dealing with the underfunding and the understaffing of t…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Government Procurement Strategy
“Is there an expectation that the procurement principles enunciated today will be followed through with local authorities? If so, can we expect to see an end to the scandal of bodies such as Transport for London buying Chinese buses, rather …”
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Debate
Peter Mandelson: Government Appointment
“Yesterday, the focus of many Members was to ask the Prime Minister why he never thought to ask whether Mandelson had security clearance. There was great reticence about asking that question, but today we discovered that there was no such re…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Security Vetting
“This House and the country are being asked to believe that, although the right honourable and learned Gentleman is the Prime Minister, and provoked a raging controversy while making the United Kingdom’s most critical diplomatic appointment,…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Strategic Defence Review: Funding
“As I said earlier in the week, Northern Ireland’s geographical position means that it increasingly occupies a key geo-security location, particularly in the light of the threat to our transatlantic underground cables. In that context, will …”
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Legislation
Crime and Policing Bill
“The right honourable Member makes a very valid point. Does he agree that defeating terrorism is about not just the physical defeat of terrorism but ensuring that, through its glorification, the narrative of terrorism is not allowed to radic…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: North Atlantic Submarine Activity
“Given Northern Ireland’s geographical position, it occupies a geo-security location of increasing significance, particularly with regard to transatlantic undersea cables. I am disappointed, then, that there are still only five Royal Navy pe…”
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Legislation
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
“The Minister was asked a very precise question by the honourable Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare). That question was this: outside of any monetary obligations under the treaty, will a single penny be paid to Mauritius going forward? It…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“The Prime Minister knows that his Government’s coffers have been swollen by hundreds of millions by the extra tax take, particularly VAT, on rising fuel prices. Would it therefore be unreasonable to expect a socialist Government to practise…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Northern Ireland
“As the Secretary of State talks up the Belfast agreement, he of course ignores the fact that its primary pledge of no constitutional change without consent has been trashed by the Windsor framework, in that article six of our Acts of Union,…”
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