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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 16 Jul 2019
European Union Settlement Scheme

"My Lords, why do the Government think that the EU Commission refused our original offer of continuing residence for the EU’s 3.5 to 4 million people living here in return for its agreement that our 1.2 million people could go on living there?..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 14 May 2019
Grooming Gangs

"My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, on her courage in introducing this debate and on the sensitivity in the way that she did it.

I start with the assistance the Government are giving to the victims of grooming gangs in Rotherham and elsewhere. The noble Baroness suggested …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Apr 2019
Freedom of Expression

"My Lords, I hope that I shall not ruin the career of the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, by supporting her Question and in finding the Government’s Answer disappointing. Likewise, what about the Christian preacher, Pastor Olu, who was arrested, had his Bible wrenched from him and was dumped several miles …..."
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Written Question
Common Agricultural Policy
Monday 25th March 2019

Asked by: Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any estimate of the number of people who have died in non-EEA countries since 1989 from malnutrition and related causes as a result of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, in particular the dumping of excess food on the local markets of such countries; if so, how many people they estimate to have died as a result of that policy; and if not, whether they will do so.

Answered by Lord Bates

The UK Government is a leading global donor for nutrition and our position is set out in the UK’s Global Nutrition Position Paper (attached): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652122/nutrition-paper-2017a.pdf.

The UK Government has not estimated whether any deaths can be attributed to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Prevent Strategy

"My Lords, has there been any increase in the 8.6% of tip-offs about potential terrorists to the Prevent programme and our security services that come from within our close-knit Muslim communities? What plans do the Government have to encourage greater collaboration with our Muslim friends against their radical co-religionists?..."
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Written Question
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Thursday 6th December 2018

Asked by: Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to sign the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Morocco on 10 and 11 December; and if so, what effect they have calculated signing the Compact will have on UK immigration.

Answered by Lord Bates

The UK Government is supportive of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, both as a step forward in international co-operation to tackle irregular migration and as a framework to help us deliver our commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals.

Our participation in the Global Compact will not affect our continued ability to determine and implement our own migration policy in the national interest. The Compact is a ‘non-legally binding, cooperative framework’, which reaffirms the sovereign right of States to determine their national migration policy.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 05 Dec 2018
Religious Hate Speech

"To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether section 29J of the Public Order Act 1986 remains in force, and if so, what is the basis in statute for the offence of religious hate speech...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 05 Dec 2018
Religious Hate Speech

"My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply. However, I fear that we are on our way to losing our freedom of speech in this area. I repeat a question I put a year ago, which the Government refused to answer: namely, whether a Christian who proclaims that Jesus …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 15 Nov 2018
Police: Serious and Violent Crime

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 22 Oct 2018
Sexual Offences

"My Lords, do the Government accept that if we extrapolate nationally the Jay report on Rotherham and other reports from Telford and Oxford, there appear to have been upwards of 250,000 young white girls raped in this century, very largely by Muslim men, usually several times a day for years? …..."
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