Questions
Oral questions: Northern Ireland
“6. What discussions he has had with representatives of the logistics industry on the cost of trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.…”
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Sammy Wilson
Democratic Unionist PartyMP for East Antrim
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Steel Tariffs: Northern Ireland
“The Minister may have met representatives of the industry, but the question is: has he even listened to their concerns? They still say that the problems caused by his imposition of tariffs will abide with the industry. He said that he is re…”
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Debate
Northern Ireland Office
“Does the honourable Member accept that the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council has also said that, if spending allocations to the Executive were based on need, the Executive would be entitled to receive between £1 billion and £3.5 billion extra…”
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Debate
Cabinet Office
“Does the honourable Member accept that there is a certain irony when the same people who are concerned about climate change and temperatures rising have campaigned for air conditioning to be taken out of buildings because of its energy cons…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Asylum Accommodation
“People have a right to be angry that the Government have sought to impose hundreds of asylum seekers on their communities without consultation. The Minister has talked today about the deterrent factor. When we spend billions accommodating p…”
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Legislation
Armed Forces Bill
“The honourable Member is making a very important point. Judicial review is not an answer for the many people who are damaged or suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and so on, because they do not have the capacity to do it, which i…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Belfast: Violent Disorder
“The Minister is right that those who engaged in the violence last night should face the full weight of the law, because legally, morally and politically they were wrong. However, if the law is going to apply to those who protested, it shoul…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Digital Safety: Children
“Regardless of what has provoked this change of heart, we can all welcome the Government now recognising the harms caused to children and families by social media. The evidence is very clear. I believe that most children will support the leg…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Lebanon: Israel Defence Forces Operations
“I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Hezbollah has made south Lebanon into an armed camp and a massive arms dump in which it stores rockets and drones that have been used to attack Israeli towns and …”
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Questions
Oral questions: Northern Ireland
“Northern Ireland has skills, technology and infrastructure to contribute to the defence industry across the United Kingdom, but the Sinn Féin Economy Minister does not want defence jobs. Will the Minister assure us that the attitude of Sinn…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Murder of Henry Nowak
“Our sympathies go out to the family, who must have been horrified by what they saw on the police footage. How have we reached a stage in this country where, when the police go to an incident, they arrest a dying man because they are afraid …”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Processed Russian Oil Products: Sanctions
“No matter how the Minister tries to confuse the issue by talking about the situation up until now and the new arrangements, which are meant to tighten up sanctions today, the fact remains that we are now granting permits for Russian oil to …”
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Legislation
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill (Carry-over)
“Would the honourable Member accept that when the process exonerates the soldiers and the veterans at the end, the whole point of the process and taking them to the court in the first place is to give the daily headlines in the paper to allo…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Dunmurry Police Station Attack
“Let me say on behalf of my party that we condemn the bombing at the weekend and we thank the police for their actions, which ensured that there were not the casualties that we would otherwise be lamenting here today. It is significant that …”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Security Vetting
“The Prime Minister has told us that the Cabinet Secretary gave him bad advice, Peter Mandelson lied to him and the Foreign Office did not tell him anything. He is really in danger of being known as the mushroom Prime Minister: he is kept in…”
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Legislation
Crime and Policing Bill
“Despite the current legislation, in Northern Ireland, not only individuals but Sinn Féin Government Ministers engage in acts and make speeches on an almost monthly basis that not only glorify but encourage terrorism, praise those who took p…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: North Atlantic Submarine Activity
“A recent Policy Exchange document entitled, “Closing the Back Door” highlighted that, as a result of the Irish Government freeloading on the UK and NATO, they were increasingly reliant on the UK for security, particularly regarding air defe…”
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Legislation
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
“I doubt whether many people across the nation are watching the Parliament channel at the moment to see this statement. The Minister started off saying that this space is critical to our national security, allows us to project the full array…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Southport Inquiry
“When I heard the news this morning and the catalogue of failures and missed opportunities were read out—including the focus and attention there was on this murder, yet he was allowed to get away—my heart went out to the families of those th…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“Given the threat that the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies in Lebanon present to world peace—in the middle east and beyond—does the Prime Minister not accept that action against the regime was inevitable, in order to cut back its mi…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Northern Ireland
“As a result of the Government’s mismanagement of the economy, the spring statement forecast that economic growth and wage growth would go down and that we would have increased inflation, all of which will hit Northern Ireland more severely …”
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Legislation
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
“Will the Minister accept that if these changes go through and people save less for their future, we will have pensioner poverty? That is the impact of these measures.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Hatzola Ambulance Attack
“We should not be surprised by the attacks that happened in Golders Green last night because after all, we have been promoting this antisemitism in various ways across the United Kingdom—whether it is the sectarianism of politics that we hav…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“The Government may not want to be drawn into a war with Iran, but Iran has declared war on us by attacking our bases, trying to kill our civilians, attacking our economy, and even engaging in acts of terror in our country. We have found thi…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Heating Oil Support
“I suppose it was inevitable that the Minister would take the opportunity to bang the drum for his disastrous net zero policy, which has been responsible for giving people in the United Kingdom the highest electricity prices in the whole of …”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Strait of Hormuz
“The Minister has insisted that he does not want to get drawn into a wider war, but with the targeting of our civilians and bases and our economy being strangled, how much wider could the war get? Does he not recognise that Iran has been abl…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Spring Forecast
“The Chancellor raised a laugh at the start of her statement when she said she was following the right policies for this country—policies that have resulted in lower economic growth, higher unemployment, people staggering under an increased …”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“We should welcome the actions of America and Israel in trying to destroy a regime that, as the Prime Minister described, has exported terror all over the world, but why the weak-kneed response from the Government that we are limiting our ba…”
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Legislation
Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill
“Does the honourable and learned Member accept that the situation is even worse than that? If goods that are subsidised or get state aid in GB have a tenuous connection with markets in Northern Ireland, the EU can again limit the amount of s…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Northern Ireland
“Yesterday I met two apprentices who were engaged in firms delivering defence contracts in Northern Ireland and were enthusiastic about the skills and their prospects, but Northern Ireland benefits minimally from defence contracts across the…”
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