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HANSARDEngagementsWe are putting £2 billion into the kickstart programme for 18 to 24-year-olds and investing massively in the restart programme for those who have been longer out of work. I can…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe House will have understood from my opening apology how difficult, how complex and how fraught these issues are, but we are committed to introducing legislation in this Session…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsIt says here that I must not express a preference on the location of freeports, and I will not, but my hon. Friend makes an outstanding case, as ever. Together with our Welsh…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman is completely wrong, and he should look at the Bill when it comes forward, because we want to protect the green belt. We want to protect our wonderful…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much, and she is totally right. It is part of our levelling up. We are absolutely determined to do that as fast as we possibly can, and I thank her for…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsFirst, the right hon. Gentleman is totally wrong in what he says about the fisheries. In fact, there are massive opportunities for fisheries in the whole of the UK as we take back…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI share the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s horror at the outbreak of antisemitic incidents. The Government have conveyed that message loud and clear to those who are…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsActually, I think what would be helpful—I have set out the position on amber list countries very clearly at least twice; wouldn’t it be great to hear the right hon. and learned…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI can tell the House that there has been a 95% reduction in travel of any kind to and from this country, and that is exactly what we would expect in the circumstances of this…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think that, after more than a year of this, the right hon. and learned Gentleman will understand that what the public would like to see is some effort to back up what the…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe have one of the strongest border regimes anywhere in the world. There are currently 43 countries on the red list. Everybody should know that if they travel to an amber list…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI certainly think that that is one of the issues that we must face, but perhaps it would be of benefit to the House if I update it on where we are, because we have looked at the…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI can understand the feelings of frustration that the people of Havering may have about a current Mayor of London who does not understand the needs of outer London and is not…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI in no way underestimate the suffering of the victims of Grenfell or of those whose buildings—whose homes—have been prejudiced by the spectre of unsafe materials. That is why we…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsLast week, an inquest found Francis Quinn, Father Hugh Mullan, Noel Phillips, Joan Connolly, Daniel Teggart, Joseph Murphy, Edward Doherty, John Laverty, Joseph Corr and John…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am delighted to see the shots of the right hon. Gentleman’s croft, by the way—the humble representative of the crofting community. I do not think that he does justice to…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think the whole House acknowledges our collective debt to the nurses of the NHS, and I certainly acknowledge my own huge personal debt. That is why, of all the professions in…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank my hon. Friend for his point, and he knows a great deal about the subject. We have worked very hard with the Welsh Government throughout the pandemic, supporting them…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes is the answer, but the Labour party junked it in— [ Interruption. ] This is something that, for decades, politicians have failed to address: in 1999, Labour failed to address…19 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, and I thank my hon. Friend, who is a great advocate for the people of Cheadle. As part of our plan to move from jabs, jabs, jabs to jobs, jobs, jobs, I am delighted to say…19 May 2021