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HANSARD Covid-19: Government ResponseSome months ago, the Prime Minister rolled up to Billingham in my constituency for a picture opportunity that Fujifilm scheduled for the manufacture of the Novavax vaccine…21 Oct 2021HANSARDTrade Strategy: Climate ChangeAs we have heard, human rights are too often forgotten in our trade deals. I believe that the Foreign Secretary is now courting Saudi Arabia even more, to name just one of the…21 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageWill the Minister give way?20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageYou are wrong.20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. My father worked for the Cummins engine company for 40-odd years. That was almost next door to the Cleveland Bridge &…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Miller. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Anthony Browne) on securing this extremely important…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyAs chair of the all-party parliamentary group on CCUS, I am delighted by today’s announcement that the Tees, along with our Humber colleagues, will lead the way on CCUS and…19 Oct 2021HANSARD High StreetsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Janet Daby) on securing the debate. Our high…19 Oct 2021HANSARD High StreetsPublic money does need to be well spent, and it was not exactly all public money that went to it, but that is another matter. I will not have anyone talking down my town and the…19 Oct 2021HANSARD High StreetsI will not, if the hon. Member does not mind. A town in the previous Secretary of State’s constituency, which was 270th on the list, was successful. Yet Billingham was not,…19 Oct 2021HANSARD High StreetsNo, I will not give way. Many of the people who actually make our high streets great are crying out for urgent business reform, which is something the hon. Member for Stockton…19 Oct 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyThe issues my hon. Friend raises will also result in more debt. Is he surprised to learn that debt in this country is 123% of household incomes and that there have been 27,662…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way again. He will not know this, but I spent a long part of my career in the gas industry. I remember taking a group of women…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI well remember the Thatcher Government, when interest rates went up and up and up and up. Even those on good wages were struggling, so it was even more difficult for others.…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyWill my hon. Friend give way?21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyMy hon. Friend might not know this, but I was in the gas industry for many years, as I mentioned earlier, and I was involved in a warm homes system. We went door to door,…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyThere is some good news this afternoon, because I understand that the Government have actually helped out and we have some form of agreement with CF Fertilisers—the company that…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyThe Tories are keen to talk up the importance of work, and I agree with them on the importance of work—good paid jobs must be the answer—but they also allow many firms to go to…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyMy hon. Friend talks about tax rates. He will be interested to know that a tweet has just come in from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation saying that “191 Conservative seats will see…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyMy hon. Friend talks about people applauding on their doorsteps; when I put a question to the Prime Minister when he was talking about his tax increase, he said that the…21 Sept 2021