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HANSARDEngagementsWhat 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 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 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 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue. I am very happy to congratulate Ruth Cairnie on achieving that role as chairman of Babcock. The Government have been working and…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 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 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 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 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 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 commend Conservative-led Redditch council for the work that it is doing to unlock the town and to unlock the high street. My hon. Friend tempts me to support one bid over…03 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI welcome the hon. Gentleman’s indication that he remains a progressive Conservative in his thinking on various issues. I approach the discussions in a constructive spirit,…03 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI will look very carefully at my right hon. Friend’s suggestion in relation to the Special Olympics. I am very happy to join her—I am sure everybody across the whole House will—in…03 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady knows that we are increasing the funding—£1.3 billion extra—available to schools. I am sure she will want to welcome, as I do, the fact that there are 22,500 more…03 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsAs I said in response to the hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Afzal Khan), any allegations made in relation to the Conservative party are investigated carefully by the…03 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend raises a very important point. If we look at the extent to which knife crime is gang and drug-related, many people across our society need to ask themselves what…03 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI recognise the issue that my hon. Friend has raised, and obviously the concern has been shared by our hon. and right hon. Friends and others across the House. The current system…03 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsI understand that South Wales Police has been given extra funding in relation to dealing with knife crime. It is important that we deal with this issue. The hon. Gentleman raised…03 Apr 2019