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At Business Questions on Thursday 18 July 2019, I called for an update for the House following the urgent question regarding Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe yesterday. As Nazanin said, she went to visit her parents and has ended up in an asylum.
On Wednesday 17 July 2019, I responded to the opening of a debate on the Gemma White QC report on bullying and harassment in Parliament. The report outlines the testimony collected in an extremely accessible way, but it does not make for pleasant reading.
I wholeheartedly support the campaign run by the Reading Agency to encourage all primary school children to take part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge which launched on Saturday 13 July 2019. The Challenge helps get over 700,000 children into libraries each year.
Following the debate on the Gemma White QC report into bullying and harassment in Parliament, I opened a debate on a motion regarding the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) on behalf of HM Official Opposition.
On Tuesday 9 July 2019 Parliament debated the third reading of the Northern Ireland Executive Formation Bill. The Bill was a Parliamentary measure to maintain the Government in Northern Ireland which has not had an executive since March 2017.
What chaos: a future Prime Minister refusing to support his own ambassador in the face of verbal abuse. It is disgraceful that there was a malicious leak of emails. Sir Kim Darroch was doing his job. The Secretary of State for International Trade vowed to apologise to the President’s daughter, an unelected representative. What on
I responded to a Business Statement to the Commons on Monday 8 July 2019, thanking the Leader of the House for providing more time for the debate on Northern Ireland. Important issues, including abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, were to be discussed in the debate.
Since 2010 the number of cases assisted by legal aid has dropped from 900,000 to 15,000. This is about the rule of law and access to justice. If the Leader of the House could ensure that the Government will automatically fund legal aid for the families of victims of terrorist atrocities—a subject that I raised