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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"I am afraid that I cannot give way because the time will keep running down. Scrapping the limit is just the start and it has to happen in the context of wider welfare reforms that ensure that every child grows up in a home where work pays and where families …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"I share those concerns, as I know does the right hon. Member for Godalming and Ash (Sir Jeremy Hunt). We have cross-party interest in making better use of those resources. I thank the Chancellor for her comments about the infected blood contamination scheme, which is proudly delivered from my constituency …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"I would normally extend the courtesy of saying that it is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Angus and Perthshire Glens (Dave Doogan), but that speech was all a bit dreich.

I have reflected hard on this Budget, as it is the first since I left my role …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Jun 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"All our hearts and support are with the people of Ukraine, but the conflict is having a significant impact worldwide. Particularly affected are people in east Africa, where grain shortages have coincided with the most dangerous drought in 40 years, cuts to aid and covid-19. Save the Children and Oxfam …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Foreign Secretary knows that a vital way to help Ukraine is to prevent those who have stolen money from the Russian people from hiding it in our capital city, but after years of austerity, our hollowed-out enforcement agencies simply do not have the resources to go toe to toe …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Jul 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

" The Minister for Middle East and North Africa indicated earlier that the Government have yet to consider joining the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, because they are awaiting further information. Why are the Government not showing more initiative in working with the US to drive that? Our chief negotiator …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 14 Jun 2021
Israel and Palestine

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petitions 585313 and 585314, relating to Israel and Palestine.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd, and to lead this incredibly important debate on behalf of the Petitions Committee. As hon. Members will be aware, the Committee …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 14 Jun 2021
Israel and Palestine

"I thank all the contributors to this debate. It is clearly a highly complex situation and will require a range of measures, actions and compromises to resolve it. But I share the hope of my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Steve McCabe) that the Government, alongside the …..."
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Written Question

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Monday 17th May 2021

Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of the risk of parental child abduction to Japan.

Answered by Nigel Adams

Our Travel Advice for Japan covers Japanese family law and we have also published guidance specifically on child abduction to Japan on GOV.UK. These were revised in February of this year to clarify the differences in Japan's family law and consular support the FCDO is able to provide towards child abduction cases to Japan. I raised the issue of Japan's custody laws with the then Japanese Ambassador to the UK in December 2020 and we will continue to engage Japan on these issues at appropriate opportunities.

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Monday 17th May 2021

Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Japanese counterpart on cases of parental child abduction to Japan.

Answered by Nigel Adams

Our Travel Advice for Japan covers Japanese family law and we have also published guidance specifically on child abduction to Japan on GOV.UK. These were revised in February of this year to clarify the differences in Japan's family law and consular support the FCDO is able to provide towards child abduction cases to Japan. I raised the issue of Japan's custody laws with the then Japanese Ambassador to the UK in December 2020 and we will continue to engage Japan on these issues at appropriate opportunities.