Speeches by Obese-Jecty.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I thank my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright) for securing this timely debate. His wealth of knowledge on this topic is clear, and his voice in pursuing the most effective iteration of the legislation ha…”

“You mentioned destroying the evidence for people’s addresses after 21 days. In a constituency near mine, for example, one of the independent candidates acted as his own agent, so while I appreciate that while you get rid of his address after 21 days, that is scant consolation after he has put tens of thousands of leafl…”

“Can we only close that with legislation?”

“Picking up Dr Collignon’s point about the threshold at which police can act, I have reported a lot of abuse to the police, and I have seen huge inconsistency in the way different forces handle issues. I don’t think it is necessarily the threshold at which the police can act, but the determining of what constitutes a cr…”

“You mentioned destroying the evidence for people’s addresses after 21 days. In a constituency near mine, for example, one of the independent candidates acted as his own agent, so while I appreciate that while you get rid of his address after 21 days, that is scant consolation after he has put tens of thousands of leafl…”

“Can we only close that with legislation?”

“My question is for Professor Margetts and is with regard to your experience of social media generally. In terms of racist abuse, and to your point about high-profile people, we have seen the abuse that Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Diane Abbott all receive, but it is not just people at the higher level. I…”

“Picking up Dr Collignon’s point about the threshold at which police can act, I have reported a lot of abuse to the police, and I have seen huge inconsistency in the way different forces handle issues. I don’t think it is necessarily the threshold at which the police can act, but the determining of what constitutes a cr…”

“A quick question: to what extent do the Government support CARICOM’s 10-point plan for reparatory justice?”

“As a veteran, I welcome the move to 2.5%. It is a milestone on the right track to increasing defence spending to 3.0% and probably beyond, particularly given that defence chiefs are reported to have requested 2.65%. With increasing defence spending and suggestions that British forces may be involved in a peacekeeping m…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I thank the Petitions Committee for enabling this debate; Kim Campbell for launching the petition; the hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Tony Vaughan) for opening the debate; and the 128,000 signatories of the petition, including 225 people …”

“Opposition Members are broadly supportive of this Bill and its aims, which build on the work done by the previous Conservative Government and refined by Members of the other place. I will focus primarily on deepfakes and AI-generated images, specifically in relation to clauses 91 and 141. I commend Baroness Owen for he…”

“In my constituency of Huntingdon, I have two sites that form a key component of pre-clinical animal testing. Labcorp, where the testing takes place, and Marshall BioResources, where the beagle puppies are bred and then tested on. Almost none survive the testing process. While I do not support animal testing, I recognis…”

“Last July, Deborah Lee, the senior responsible officer for the Hinchingbrooke hospital redevelopment programme, stated that the deadline for the new hospital was 2030. In a written answer to me last year, the Minister confirmed that, even after the mitigation measures of failsafe steelwork, the lifespan of the remainin…”

“4. If he will take steps to repair Hinchingbrooke hospital before buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete reach the end of their lifespan in 2030.”

“9. How many Afghans who worked directly for British forces have been relocated to the UK under the Afghan resettlement programme.”

“No, I will not. The Bill repeals most of the Illegal Migration Act, removes the duty on the Home Secretary to make arrangements to remove persons who entered the UK illegally to their home country or a safe third country, and allows illegal migrants to obtain British citizenship—more incentives. The Illegal Migration A…”

“This Government, with this plan, will sadly not get on top of illegal immigration. The Secretary of State made much of the fact that the Bill will introduce powers that mirror counter-terror legislation “to allow law enforcement partners to disrupt, investigate and prosecute those facilitating organised immigration cri…”

“I was not suggesting that people should not have the ability to clothe themselves; my point was that this is advertised on the Government website, and is a pull factor. What does this Bill do to address that pull factor?”

“Having admitted 30,000 Afghans into the country as part of the Afghan resettlement programme, it is concerning to learn that the Ministry of Defence has no idea how many of them actually ever worked for British forces. The Government’s own figures estimate the total number of local Afghans employed by British forces du…”