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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Nov 2025
G20 and Ukraine

"The Prime Minister has done a pretty good job of getting close to President Trump. Can he convince the tyrant bear that to reward him with land he has already taken would be bad enough, but it would be utterly egregious and appalling to allow him—the ruthless bear—to take land …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Nov 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Many thousands of our brave troops served in Northern Ireland, and many gave their lives for peace and for our country. Does the Secretary of State agree that they deserve a permanent memorial, not for some of them to be prosecuted?..."
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Written Question
Catholicism: Anniversaries
Tuesday 21st October 2025

Asked by: Edward Leigh (Conservative - Gainsborough)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to mark the 200th anniversary of Catholic emancipation.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The 200th anniversary of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 will take place in 2029.

The Act removed many of the legal barriers to participation in public life for Roman Catholics and was an important milestone in the development of religious freedom in the UK.

While the Government currently has no specific plans to mark the anniversary, the Government engages with the Catholic Church along with a wide range of other Churches at national, regional and local level, and remains committed to valuing the contribution which Christians make to society.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q10. Even if an illegal migrant is stopped on a French beach, he will simply come back the next day as no one is ever arrested. Will the Deputy Prime Minister ensure that we remove all pull factors for illegal migration by using his new Bill of Rights so that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
Papers Relating to the Home Secretary

"On what occasions during the previous Labour Government did the Government release legal advice they were given? In particular, did Tony Blair release the advice given to him on the Iraq war?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Oct 2022
Departure of Previous Home Secretary

"Can the Minister assure us that the resignation was entirely due to a technical breach of the rules and that there was no policy disagreement between the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary? Many of us had great confidence in the former Home Secretary’s determination to ensure that we meet …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Sep 2022
Health and Social Care Update

"It is not the fault of successive Conservative Secretaries of State that every time they come forward with a plan, the queues just get longer, the NHS asks for more resources, and more people have to be imported from abroad. The fault is with the system: the last example of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 09 Sep 2022
Tributes to Her Late Majesty The Queen

"I am sure that I speak for other colleagues when I say that when a debate has been going on for four hours, one feels more and more inadequate about what one is going to say and how one can do true justice to this magnificent tapestry.

When Mr Speaker …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"On behalf of the House, may I thank the Prime Minister—[Interruption.] On behalf of the House, may I thank the Prime Minister for his three-year record of service? On behalf of some of the most vulnerable people in the country, can I thank him for his insistence …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government

"The motion before us on the Order Paper is about confidence in Her Majesty’s Government. Since we face this cost of living crisis, war in Europe and all the other challenges, I was rather hoping when I arrived here that we might have a serious debate about how to deal …..."
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