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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda

"Can my noble friend tell the House whether there is any truth in the extraordinary story that is currently running in the newspapers that the Democratic Administration of President Biden are negotiating with Spain to take Spanish-speaking illegal migrants from central America away from the United States.? Is that true?..."
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Written Question
Money Laundering: Russia
Thursday 29th April 2021

Asked by: Lord Robathan (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what evidence they have identified of money obtained as the proceeds of crime in Russia being laundered in the UK.

Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.

Written Question
Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal
Thursday 29th April 2021

Asked by: Lord Robathan (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have classified the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal on 4 March 2018 as a terrorist attack.

Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Extradition Arrangements: European Union Member States

"My Lords, the late, lamented European arrest warrant certainly brought benefits in cross-border justice, but there is a presumption that the rule of law is the same in all EU states, which it is not. Could my noble friend look at political interference and corruption in any extradition or asylum …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 06 Jan 2021
Antique Firearms Regulations 2020

"My Lords, my interest in this matter is sparked by the fact that, before the first lockdown in March, I was in discussions with the British Shooting Sports Council to become an officer of that organisation. It is not declared in the register because I think I have been proposed …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 06 Jan 2021
Antique Firearms Regulations 2020

"I was just going to say that all the rifles—about 100 of them—in the school armoury were pre 1939, were not used in crime as far as I am aware and were extremely accurate. They have now all been dispersed, of course. There was an occasion when the IRA tried …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2020
Covid-19: Christmas Breaches of Restrictions

"My Lords, I have a high regard for my noble friend, so I hope that she does not take this personally. If restrictions such as the ones we are seeing at the moment are still in place at Christmas, a family of six have their elderly grandmother to Christmas lunch, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jul 2020
Metropolitan Police: Racism

"My Lords, I recall the Brixton riots of 1981 and I regret to say that there was then shocking and very real racism evident and open among some—some—of the police officers there. But since then, over the last four decades, huge progress has been made and I suggest that most …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2020
Operation Midland

"My Lords, following the shocking episode of the police being misguided—shall we say?—in their actions, does Her Majesty’s Government have any position on those who used hysteria in the media or online, or indeed used parliamentary privilege, to destroy the reputations of decent public servants alive and dead who are …..."
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