Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [Lords]

The amendment seeks to probe the Government’s thinking on whether digital attacks on cultural pro...

The question is slightly harder to answer than it might initially appear. On operations, foreign ...

It is certainly within the power of the Ministry of Defence to answer the question in terms of it...

There you go.

I will give the hon. Gentleman five out of 10 on that basis. The Minister for the Armed Forces wr...

I appreciate that these are probing amendments, because if the hon. Gentleman were to press them ...

I do not think that is a question for me to answer. It is one for the Minister to answer in her r...

I am very sympathetic to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan). H...

And modesty.

Modesty is not a word I have ever heard of. It may be, to refer to the Dealing in Cultural Object...

I apologise for missing the start of my right hon. and learned Friend’s speech—

That was the best bit.

My right hon. and learned Friend does himself an injustice: repetition can be a good thing, if he...

My hon. Friend anticipates me: that was the fourth point I was going to make in due course. The d...

My right hon. and learned Friend is dealing with his fourth point, but I wonder whether one of hi...

I am sure that my hon. Friend will have plenty of opportunity in the next two or three hours to m...

Let me begin by repeating what I said on Second Reading. Both the SNP and the Scottish Government...

I have tried to allow the hon. Gentleman some latitude, but, as he knows, we are dealing with ame...

I will be very brief indeed, Mr Deputy Speaker.

We know that there has been systematic loot...

I declare that I am president of the British Antique Dealers’ Association and that I have also be...

Does the hon. Lady take any comfort from the Government’s impact assessment of the Bill, which en...

Of course we all hope that is the case, but that is why we all in this House, jointly I believe, ...

My hon. Friend refers to the 2003 Act. She and I will recall that the genesis of the Act was the ...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for giving us the benefit of his experience, which I hop...

It is a pleasure to take part in the later proceedings of this important Bill. I am co-chair of t...

I was puzzled by the reference to the British Red Cross in a letter from the Minister, so I check...

I do not often disagree with my right hon. and learned Friend, but the British Red Cross has a gr...

Does it follow from what my hon. Friend is saying that he does not know whether any convictions u...

What I do know either way is that no antiquities dealer has come forward about being unjustly con...

On the point about the uncertainties, perhaps the Minister could clarify whether the legislation ...

I am happy to facilitate the Minister’s being able to respond to that question.

On 18 Janua...

I am grateful to all those who have contributed to this good debate on Report. I propose to respo...

The Minister’s point is confusing. She says that the examples she gave do not provide reason to s...

But my point is that this issue already exists in the art market—the Bill does not alter that at ...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

Today is an important milestone in...

I commend the Minister on navigating us through to this stage. She has now become an internationa...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention. I am sure that the Prime Minister was paying clo...

I echo all the thanks given by the Minister. I also note our achievement in saving A-level art hi...

I thought, listening to all these paeans of praise, that I had wandered into the BAFTAs, but they...

A treasure.

I know I am a treasure, but the Minister is so kind.

I will make three quick points, if I m...

As president of the British Antique Dealers Association, I know, as I have said previously, that ...