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HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate my hon. Friend on his own campaign on this issue. I think everyone understands that bullying is an appalling experience, and something that we should not tolerate…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a great champion for Dudley and for the Black Country. In addition to the £1,200 for the 8 million most vulnerable households, we are providing £400 to help…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThis morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI will tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman: actually, according to the International Monetary Fund and the OECD, in addition to the fastest growth in the G7 last year, we…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think everybody can see that I have just answered the question. Once again, the right hon. Gentleman is guilty of what m’legal friends call “ignoratio elenchi”: he has failed to…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe are helping people with the cost of living with £1,200, and on 14 July the money will be going into people’s bank accounts. Why can we do that? Because we have the fiscal…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsrose— [ Interruption. ]15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think the figures speak for themselves. The UK has record numbers of people in payroll employment. That is an astounding thing, when we consider where we were during the…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, and I want to extend my thanks also to Beverley and everybody in Cohort 4 for what they are doing. The extra support that we are giving includes £140…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe cut fuel duty for everybody across the country by record sums. The right hon. Gentleman talks about pensioners; we are giving £850 more to every pensioner across the country.…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI noticed that when one union baron was asked about this, he said, “I don’t negotiate with a Tory Government.” That is what he said, Mr Speaker. We all know how much money the…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady has asked that question repeatedly. Let me remind her that this is a Government who get on and deliver on our promises to the people—in particular, on getting Brexit…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a great champion of adopters and all those who help to give children a loving and stable home. He is quite right, we have so far focused on supporting employed…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is entirely right. We must focus ever more on mental health. That is why we are putting another £2.3 billion into supporting mental health, which includes suicide…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend certainly speaks for many in this House in wanting faster decisions on planning and the NHS, and that is what we are doing. We are pushing through, as he…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI would be only too happy to look at this. I am very sorry for the experience Mr Singh and his family have had. The hon. Lady asks who is responsible: I am responsible, and I take…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend very much for representing the niece of Dom Phillips. Like everybody in this House, we are deeply concerned about what may have happened to him.…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThere he goes again, Mr Speaker, running this country down. We have got the highest employment—the highest payroll employment— [Interruption.]15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe have got lower unemployment than France, Germany, Italy or Canada. As I have said, we have the highest number of people in payroll jobs—620,000 more—since records began. The…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI just reminded the House of what is happening in tech week in this country—the massive investment that is coming in, helped, by the way, by the 130% super deduction for business…15 Jun 2022