Deputy
Conservative
House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
Declarations of interests:
2020
, 2019
, 2018
Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)
28/09/2020 - Monitoring Monitors urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately de-escalate the situation and return to the negotiating table 22/09/2020 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Azerbaijan: PACE rapporteurs welcome decision to release Tofig Yagublu to house arrest 04/09/2020 - Monitoring Azerbaijan: PACE rapporteurs express concern at sentence for opposition politician 31/07/2020 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Rapporteurs respond to reports of mass arrests of demonstrators in Azerbaijan 17/07/2020 - Monitoring Monitoring co-rapporteurs urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to show restraint
20/11/2020 | 15:21:11 Thanks very much. Congratulations to Frank, he's done a tremendous amount of work. I know I am going to have to disagree with some of it. It's surprising and it's probably the first and maybe the last time it's ever happened to say that Frank has managed to unite myself and Mr Sergey KISLYAK. I am concerned about the qualification for exceptional circumstances. I think that one of the things that we need to look at is putting a sunset clause into this so that it is applicable for the pandemic... 20/11/2020 | 11:14:00 Thank you, President SPANO, in your opening remarks you pointed out, quite correctly, that there are a number of countries that fail to execute findings of the European Court on a serial basis. You also suggested that parliaments have a role to play in this, and I accept that entirely, except that, of course that is like asking the fox to look after the chicken coop, because the countries that are not implementing your findings, are the countries that are also controlling their Parliamentary... 30/01/2020 | 19:20:49 Thank you, Mr President. I'll do my best to do justice to the remarks that have been made. I'd like to take Mr Andreas NICK's point, the very first point that he made first, because this is at the heart of the Monitoring Committee and the monitoring process. Mr Andreas NICK said that we're here to help fledgling democracies. That is precisely what we're here for. Others have mentioned, Ms Branka STAMENKOVIĆ mentioned the reluctance of France to submit itself to periodic review. That was... 30/01/2020 | 18:33:17 Thank you, Mister President. As is my custom, because all colleagues had the opportunity to read this report, I don't propose to spend more than a couple of minutes introducing it. The reason for that is not to catch everybody out but simply to be able to listen to the debate and then respond to the debate. Which I believe is what we ought to be able to do. If I may abuse my position very briefly, this effectively is my swan song, as the immediate past chairman of the monitoring committee... 30/01/2020 | 18:14:31 The Committee is against by a large majority. I put the amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. Display the result please. Amendment number 5 is rejected. Now we proceed to vote on the draft recommendation contained in document 15023. The vote is open. The vote is closed. Display the result please. The draft recommendation in document 15023 is adopted. We now come to the second of the two reports we have to consider on missing refugees and migrant children in Europe. That...
13/01/2020 | Doc. 15031 | Report The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2019) 26/06/2019 | Doc. 14922 | Report Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 14/01/2019 | Doc. 14792 Part 3 (IT) | Report The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2018) and the periodic review of the honouring of obligations by Iceland and Italy Periodic review: Italy 08/01/2019 | Doc. 14792 Part 2 (IS) | Report The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2018) and the periodic review of the honouring of obligations by Iceland and Italy Periodic review: Iceland 07/01/2019 | Doc. 14792 Part 1 | Report The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2018) and the periodic review of the honouring of obligations by Iceland and Italy
30/04/2021 | Doc. 15209 | Written declaration Magnitsky case: Switzerland should not release suspect funds prematurely 15/02/2021 | Doc. 15063 | Written declaration The members of national delegations signing this declaration regret the approval, by the Assembly, of the credentials submitted by the Russian Federation 07/01/2021 | Doc. 15209 | Written declaration Magnitsky case: Switzerland should not release suspect funds prematurely 06/01/2021 | Doc. 15206 | Motion for a resolution Polarisation of the political environment as a hidden danger of the displacement of the population 06/01/2021 | Doc. 15207 | Motion for a resolution Gradual cultural erasure and other threats to culture
30/01/2020 | Doc. 15031, vote on the draft text for resolution The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2019) 29/01/2020 | Doc. 15024, vote on the draft text for resolution Complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations 29/01/2020 | Doc. 15050, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15021, vote on the draft text for resolution Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15021, vote on the draft text for recommendation Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe