In Parliament - Andy Slaughter

Lawfare and UK Court System

Commons debates

I see the hon. Gentleman in his place, and I commend him for his learned speech. Riverside Advisory wishes to piggyback on the Select Committee’s inquiry into fraud and the justice system...

Lawfare and UK Court System

Commons debates

I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting this important debate, and congratulate the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) on securing it and on his excellent...

Schedule 7 - Building safety charges

Building Safety Bill

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

There is not an issue before this House that causes me as much concern as the safety of residents living in high-rise blocks from the risk of fire. That has been the case since August 2016 when...

New Clause 19 - Special Measures

Building Safety Bill

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

I congratulate my hon. Friend on the work that she has done to draw wider attention to the Ballymore application, and indeed it has now been withdrawn. That is happening everywhere, however: on...

New Clause 19 - Special Measures

Building Safety Bill

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

I will speak briefly to new clauses 15 and 16, which are in my name and which relate to electrical safety. They seek to extend the requirement for five-yearly checks on electrical equipment to...

New Clause 19 - Special Measures

Building Safety Bill

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is a logical and fair man, and he will appreciate that there is an anomaly here. If a leaseholder rents out their property, as we have heard some are forced to do, they will be a...

New Clause 20 - Regulations under section 131

Building Safety Bill

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

It is happening now on a very large scale. This is what one of my major social landlords said about remedial works: “The cost of this…is in the tens of millions of pounds and has led...

Refugees: Afghanistan

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the initial 5,000 places on the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme will be allocated to people already in the UK.

Serious Fraud Office

Attorney General

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the oral Answer of 6 January 2022, Official Report, column 146, on the Criminal Justice System: Disclosure between Parties, when the independent review on...

Building Safety

Commons debates

The Secretary of State has been asked by both sides of the House about protecting social landlords and tenants from remediation costs. Will he answer that point, bearing in mind that the biggest...

Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme

Commons debates

Around 200 Afghan constituents have contacted me since August. In the main, they have either dependents stuck in Afghanistan or relatives who are at serious risk because they worked in support of...

Criminal Justice System: Disclosure between Parties

Attorney General

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. It is a pleasure to be shadowing the Solicitor General—we have missed him in Shepherd’s Bush. Last month the Court of Appeal ruled the conviction of...

Cybercrime: Middle East

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter to her of 11 November 2021 from ten hon. Members calling on the Government to...

Human Rights Legislation

Commons debates

This is the third or fourth attempt by successive Tory Governments to fillet the Human Rights Act, and it is no more coherent than the ones that were abandoned. We know that it is intended to...

Metropolitan Police: Stephen Port Murders Inquest

Commons debates

The Minister’s response to the urgent question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge), which should have been a statement from the Home Secretary, is...

Gaza: Demonstrations

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 57198 on Gaza: Demonstrations, what recent assessment her...

Israel: Palestinians

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights titled Ensuring accountability and...

Palestinians: Health Services

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the report by Medical Aid for Palestinians entitled Systematic Discrimination and Fragmentation...

Ali Hajji

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to reports of the discontinuance of dental treatment for political prisoner Ali AlHajee, on what...

Abduljalil al-Singace

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2021 to Question HL3907 and Answer of 19 November 2021 to Question 72473,...