Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP

In Parliament

Sir Iain’s speeches, debate interventions and questions in the House of Commons.

In Parliament
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith speaking in the House of Commons, 15 Oct 2020
Sir Iain Duncan Smith opposes the imposition of London-wide Tier 2 restrictions

Sir Iain Duncan Smith opposes the imposition of London-wide Tier 2 restrictions and calls for restrictions to be implemented on a borough by borough basis.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith speaking in a Westminster Hall debate, 12 Oct 2020
Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls for action on China’s treatment of its Uyghur population

Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls for Magnitsky sanctions against Chinese officials implicated in evidence from Xinjiang to send a signal that the free world will not tolerate China’s treatment of its Uyghur population.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP speaking in the House of Commons, 12 Oct 2020
Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls for more widespread access to antivirals remdesivir and ivermectin

Following the Prime Minister's statement on new covd-19 measures, Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls on the Government to give GPs more access to the antivirals remdesivir and ivermectin to reduce the likelihood of people needing to go into hospital.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith leads debate on China’s labour programme in Tibet
Sir Iain Duncan Smith leads debate on China’s labour programme in Tibet

Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP leads a on China’s rapid expansion of the labour programme in Tibet and calls for Magnitsky sanctions including travel bans and asset freezes against individual Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in Tibet and Xinjiang.
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Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP speaking in the House of Commons, 21 Sep 2020
Sir Iain Duncan Smith backs the Internal Market Bill

Sir Iain Duncan Smith backs the Bill which enables the free flow of goods and trade within the UK which is a critical part of the UK constitutional settlement and urges the EU to negotiate in good faith and get the deal done.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP speaking in the House of Commons
Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls for loan charge deadline extension

Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls for a six-month extension of the loan charge deadline as HMRC is not capable of processing all the loan charge representations at the moment.
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Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP speaking in the House of Commons, 8 Sep 2020
Sir Iain Duncan Smith urges Government to dispute EU interpretation on state aid rules

Following the Government statement on the UK’s commitment to its legal obligations under the Northern Ireland protocol, Sir Iain Duncan Smith highlights a clause in the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 in which the Government reserved the right to make clarifications and urges the Government to dispute the EU interpretation that state aid rules would be extended to Great Britain.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP speaking in the House of Commons
Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls on the Government to make human rights in China a priority

Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls on the Government to make China, Hong Kong and human rights a priority. He says “The freedom of people and the imposition of dictatorial regimes should always be our number one cry. We should speak out when others are not able to have the freedoms that we take for granted.”
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Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
Sir Iain Duncan Smith leads calls for Magnitsky sanctions against Hong Kong officials

Sir Iain Duncan Smith leads a group of Parliamentarians from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) in writing to the Foreign Secretary calling for Magnitsky sanctions against officials in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region responsible for the erosion of democracy and curtailment of freedoms and rights in Hong Kong.