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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q6. Five years ago, the Government belatedly launched a review into the security risk posed by handing thousands of mainly wealthy Russian and Chinese nationals so-called golden visas so that they could live in Britain. They also promised to publish the results of that review. Why have they not?..."
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Written Question
Northern Ireland Office: Quarantine
Monday 1st November 2021

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many of his Department's ministers have been exempted from quarantine in a hotel after returning to the UK from a covid-19 red list country to which they have travelled for the purposes of conducting official business.

Answered by Conor Burns

No Northern Ireland Office ministers have been exempted from quarantine in a hotel after returning to the UK from a covid-19 red list country to which they have travelled for the purposes of conducting official business.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Oct 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q3. I am sure that the whole House will want to send my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition their best wishes. Also, it is good to see a few more Conservative MPs heeding the Health Secretary’s plea to wear a mask. Given that we have had far, …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland political parties) order 2018

"The figure is actually £435,000, not £425,000. Will my hon. Friend also note that the official Government consultation took place in January before this unprecedented donation came to light?..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland political parties) order 2018

"Why not backdate it then?..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland political parties) order 2018

"It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. As some Members may know, I have spent a lot of the past few months working on trying to expose dark money in British politics, and the role it may have played in the past and may be …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland political parties) order 2018

"My main concern in all of this is to try to uncover the dark money that played a role in the referendum campaign. If the hon. Gentleman has any evidence that he would like to send me in that respect, I would be grateful to receive it. If he wants …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland political parties) order 2018

"The hon. Gentleman is not even a member of the Committee, so I will make progress if he does not mind. Naomi Long, the leader of the Alliance party in Northern Ireland and the politician who secured this change to the law, with the support at the time of all …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland political parties) order 2018

"My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I hope the Minister will explain why the Government have changed their mind when she responds to the debate.

If the Government will not change their mind again, to their original position, and backdate transparency to 2014, I invite the Minister to publish …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland political parties) order 2018

"The simple answer is to backdate this measure to 2014. The Minister would be able to do whatever she likes then and we would have full transparency, which she claims she wants.

Will the Minister also explain why she is ignoring the representations of the Electoral Commission, of civil society …..."
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