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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"2. What steps his Department is taking to help to achieve sustainable development goal 2.2 on ending all forms of malnutrition. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Last year, I travelled with Results UK to Zambia, where 40% of under-fives are stunted. That has an astonishing lifelong impact on their social and economic development. Will the Minister go into a little more detail about next year’s summit and about how we will show our commitment to really …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 May 2019
National Security Council Leak

"There are a few troubling aspects of this affair, to put it mildly. As we have seen—most people would, I think, agree about this—there have been a number of leaks from the Cabinet as a whole, particularly in the past two years, yet inquiries into those leaks either do not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Apr 2019
Voter ID Pilots

"Madam Deputy Speaker,

“How will we check people’s ID? We will be using a two-level check to verify the person attending is who we have on our membership list. Named Photo ID: This is for branch officers to see photographic ID which has a name that matches the name on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T4. My right hon. Friend will be aware of the arbitrary 15-year rule that prevents Britons abroad from voting in UK elections. Will she recommit the Government to supporting the private Member’s Bill of our hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire (Glyn Davies), when it comes back to the House …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Minister join me in welcoming moves to roll over the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement—the GPA—and in welcoming the access that that would give to UK companies competing abroad and the opening up of our own markets to foreign competitors?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"I have just come from speaking at the launch of a draft EU-UK free trade agreement. It lays out 300 pages of what such an agreement would look like and invites the Government and businesses to engage, but it depends on our being outside a customs union with the EU. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jan 2019
Leaving the European Union

"May I return to issues concerning the World Trade Organisation? One of the things that will need to be sorted out in connection with the question of a no-deal Brexit is what will happen in relation to some of the “most favoured nation” clauses. If the Prime Minister were to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jan 2019
Leaving the EU

"The Prime Minister will have read the comments from leading European Commission officials at the very highest levels about the withdrawal agreement since it was finalised. Sabine Weyand, Michel Barnier’s deputy, has said:

“This requires the Customs Union as the basis for the future relationship”.

She has also said:

“They …..."
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Written Question
British Nationals Abroad: Voting Rights
Wednesday 19th December 2018

Asked by: Greg Hands (Conservative - Chelsea and Fulham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

What plans he has to change the time limit on the entitlement of UK citizens living overseas to register to vote in UK parliamentary elections.

Answered by Chloe Smith

British citizens living abroad retain strong links with the United Kingdom, no matter how far they have travelled.
The Government is supporting my Hon friend the Member for Montgomeryshire’s Private Member’s Bill on Overseas Electors which delivers our manifesto commitment to introducing votes for life.