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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union

"This country is on the edge of an economic precipice. We want leadership from the Government. We do not want the Secretary of State to be taking pot-shots at the Opposition at the last moment...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q15. Falklands veteran Rory McCormick met his Russian spouse six years ago. She obtained a valid article 10 EU residence card in Ireland. Now he, his two children and his wife, who is lawfully resident in the UK under the Immigration Act 2014, are being refused private tenancy in Ipswich. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q2. My constituent Lynne Sherman, who has two terminal illnesses, reapplied for her personal independence payment on 19 September, but she did not receive a home visit assessment until 6 January. She has still not received a decision on her claim. Does the Prime Minister consider it fair or sensible …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"5. If she will provide additional funding to support and protect Rohingya women living in refugee camps. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Hundreds of thousands of people have died in what has been widely regarded as ethnic cleansing. What assurances have the UK Government sought from the Myanmar Government that the Rohingya women who return will be safe, following the memorandum of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and …..."
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Written Question
Councillors: EU Nationals
Tuesday 11th September 2018

Asked by: Sandy Martin (Labour - Ipswich)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether local authority councillors who are citizens of non-UK EU countries and not UK citizens will be disqualified from office after 1 April 2019.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to the Member for Cambridge to PQ129820 on 28 March 2018.


Written Question
Councillors: EU Nationals
Tuesday 11th September 2018

Asked by: Sandy Martin (Labour - Ipswich)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether citizens of non UK EU countries that are not UK citizens will be entitled to stand as candidates in local authority elections after 1 April 2019.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to the Member for Cambridge to PQ129820 on 28 March 2018.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q2. Will the Prime Minister tell the House what actions she has taken to ensure that no further EU citizens who have been resident in this country for more than 30 years will be refused British citizenship, as the former Mayor of Ipswich was?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Following the tragic murder of a 17-year-old on Saturday in broad daylight in front of his friends, will the Prime Minister meet me and the police and crime commissioner for Suffolk to discuss how such violent crimes might be prevented in Ipswich?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Feb 2018
Overseas Electors Bill

"The 13 North American colonies south of the Great Lakes fought a bloody war of independence from the jurisdiction of this place largely on the basis of the slogan, “No taxation without representation”. That was a very good point—a fundamental constitutional point. It was wrong that they should have been …..."
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