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HANSARD European CouncilI am very happy to echo the hon. Lady’s comment. EU citizens make a valuable contribution to our society and our economy. We are the better for the contribution that they make.…11 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsLet me say first that I am sure that the thoughts of the whole House are with Charlie and his family. We recognise the significant concerns about access to this drug. On 11 March,…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Select Committee for its report, and I thank my hon. Friend for the way in which he has championed housing issues. His Act is already having an effect on homelessness…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsWe have one of the toughest regimes in relation to the export of arms across the world. The hon. Lady references the situation in Yemen. We are very clear that that cannot go on.…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend has raised an important issue. Obviously, as he will appreciate, it is important that we ensure, first, that patients get access to cost-effective innovative…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI refer the hon. Gentleman to the answers I gave earlier in relation to universal credit and the importance of this system, which is encouraging people into work—200,000 more…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend; he has been consistent in his campaigning on this issue, which I know is of great importance to his constituents. We remain committed to establishing…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady asks whether I will meet and hear direct from young people about the issues they are concerned about in relation to the environment and climate change. I do that,…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsOf course no year contains 53 weeks, so if somebody pays a 53rd rent payment in a year, it will cover some days in the subsequent year and mean that the following month has only…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate my hon. Friend on his successful campaign to get that access at Hillside station. We need to continue the programme of opening up routes for disabled people by…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsActually, what we see in terms of spending power per home is that the average spending power per home for the most deprived local authorities is over 20% higher than for the least…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsWhat I think is that Members across the House who are concerned about child poverty should take action to ensure that we help families to get more money into their pockets. It is…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI am pressing the case for the extension that I wrote to Donald Tusk about last week, which was in fact endorsed by Parliament last night. We could actually have been outside the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue, and for highlighting the fact that we are bidding to host COP26. The issue of incineration is crucial, particularly in certain local…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsFirst, the right hon. Gentleman is right to reference the 21st anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, which was indeed an important moment in Northern Irish history and…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsMay I add my congratulations to Sarah Davies on achieving this position and say how good it always is to see women in high office? The tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh in 1919 is a…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsWe have over the years asked local councils to take some difficult decisions in relation to living within our means. Why did we have to do that? We had to do that because we were…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI agree with my hon. Friend that I believe a Conservative Government will make a success of whatever the situation is in relation to Brexit. But I still believe that the best…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsNo, that is not what we are doing. What we are doing is ensuring that we have a fairer funding formula across local authorities. We are also ensuring that we are making more money…10 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI am proud to lead a Government who have seen more children in good schools, more doctors, more jobs, lower borrowing, lower unemployment and lower taxes—that is Conservatives…10 Apr 2019