Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 May 2022
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"T2. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities...."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 May 2022
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"The House of Commons Library confirms that the majority of my Delyn constituency is in the worst 30% for connectivity in the UK, with more than 10% of my constituents still receiving less than 10 megabits per second broadband speeds. It is not a devolved matter and should be delivered …..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 1st March 2022
Asked by:
Rob Roberts (Independent - Delyn)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with international sporting bodies to help ensure that no major events take place in Russia following that country's invasion of Ukraine.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
- Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government strongly condemns Russia’s recent actions. Russia must not be allowed to exploit major sporting and cultural events on the world stage to seek to legitimise its illegal invasion of Ukraine.
The international sporting community has a pivotal role to play in standing up to the illegitimacy of the Russian Government's actions. Our absolute objective is to ensure that international sporting events do not take place in Russia, and that Russian teams cannot compete internationally. The Government has been vocal on this issue and helped to ensure that sporting bodies, in this country and globally, have taken swift action.
In particular, my Rt Hon Friend, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and I convened a forum of national governing bodies on 28 February to support them in their response to this unprovoked attack, and strongly encourage engagement with their International Federations. The Government is also engaging with international ministerial counterparts this week to help build a collective approach on these issues. This dialogue and has already resulted in numerous sports bodies moving events away from Russia, and being clear that Russian and Belarussian athletes cannot participate internationally.
We applaud and strongly support the sports who have already taken many steps to respond to our calls for what is right.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Jan 2022
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"2. What recent steps her Department has taken to help strengthen the Union. ..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Jan 2022
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"Over the past 18 months, my inbox has been full of people who are frustrated and confused by the differences between the England and Wales covid rules, my constituency being close to the border. As part of the devolution settlement, under the Wales Acts, there is provision for devolution to …..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Mar 2021
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"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Siobhan Baillie) on securing this debate and taking the unusual step of seemingly unifying the entire House on this issue.
Throughout the pandemic, we have seen how social media can be a force for good. It has kept families and friends …..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Feb 2021
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" What steps his Department is taking to tackle anti-vaccination content online. ..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Feb 2021
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"My sister is bravely battling cancer for the second time, so I was excited to tell everyone who has supported her on social media last night that she would be receiving her vaccine on Saturday. Within minutes, some very special individual was spouting anti-vax nonsense on that post. In six …..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Dec 2020
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" What steps his Department is taking to roll out gigabit broadband. ..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Dec 2020
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"Mrs Sharp, who lives in Delyn in my constituency, has just had a quote for £131,638 to install full-fibre broadband for her and her 18 neighbours. That works out at about £7,000 per property. When I queried this with Openreach, it said, “Well, she lives in a rural community. Perhaps …..."Rob Roberts - View Speech
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