Human Rights Abuses and Corruption: UK Sanctions

The right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and I are tango pa...

I declare an interest as one of only three Members of this House to be sanctioned by both China a...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and...

I intend to speak only briefly. One of the great privileges of sitting in on a debate such as thi...

I completely agree that we should have a foreign agents registration Bill. My understanding is th...

My hon. Friend is an expert in matters of procedure. He is also an expert in matters Magnitsky. I...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and...

The UK’s role as a leader in the protection of human rights is something to be proud of. We are l...

Will the hon. Lady add another country, Nigeria, to her list? It is nothing to do with religion i...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, and I know my friend the hon. Member for Strangford...

First, I thank all hon. and right hon. Members for their magnificent and significant contribution...

Does the hon. Gentleman recognise the phrase “seamless garment”? It refers to Jesus’s robe when i...

I certainly would, and I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s analogy of the seamless garment. I belie...

We now come to the Front Bench contributions.

1.50 pm

I, too, begin by thanking the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan...

The summer Adjournment debate will start at around 2.15 pm, so any Members wishing to take part i...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) and the right hon. Member for Chingf...

Another problematic issue with the UK lagging behind others is that sometimes people move their a...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend’s point, which emphasises the point that I made about acti...

I welcome the Minister to his new role—Rehman Chishti.

2.6 pm

This is my first appearance at the Dispatch Box; I do not know whether it will be my last. First,...

That is all very general, but may I ask the Minister about one specific case, which has been rais...

The hon. Gentleman knows, having been a parliamentarian here for many, many years, that as a Mini...

The Minister should bear in mind that he has managed to do that only because we have basically ad...

Let us look at what we have done in comparison with partners around the world, as the hon. Gentle...

That’s not true!

The hon. Gentleman says that that is not true. I am very happy to have that conversation with him...

I asked the Minister a very specific question. Canada has sanctioned Alexander Lebedev, so will h...

I can ask my officials to look at that specific point and come back to the hon. Gentleman on it.<...

Before I call Sir Iain Duncan Smith, I want to tell everyone that there will be a six-minute limi...

I start by thanking Redress, which has been hugely influential and important. Without its data, w...