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HANSARDEngagementsYes, of course. We have 6,000 more doctors, 1,200 more GPs than this time last year and 11,800 more nurses, but we must make sure that areas with sensitive new development have…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI do not doubt the right hon. Gentleman’s talents as a conversationalist, but I think there are other subjects in the national conversation right now, including what we are doing…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is completely right. We encourage the use of suitable brownfield land, and our policy is brownfield first, everywhere and always.15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am really grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising Mr Fitton’s case. I have a great deal of sympathy with him. I will make sure that the hon. Gentleman gets a meeting with the…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am very interested to hear what the hon. Lady says, and I will look at the evidence that she has. These are very sensitive and difficult issues, particularly with regard to…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 is completely right that, currently, the Bill only applies to England. But, in a loving and sharing way, we are going to work with the devolved…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 2022HANSARDEngagementsA couple of quick points about Mr Corbyn—the right hon. Member for Islington North. First, the right hon. and learned Gentleman tried repeatedly to get him elected as Prime…15 Jun 2022HANSARDParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Appointment to UK DelegationLord Wharton of Yarm has been appointed as a substitute member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in place of Baroness Foster…13 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThis week is Carer’s Week, and I am sure the whole House will want to join me in thanking the millions of carers across the UK for all they do to support their loved ones. We have…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady very much for her question, and I can assure her that in a long political career so far—but barely begun—I have of course picked up political opponents all…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for his question. He raises an issue on which the UK has campaigned for a long time, and no country is more committed than we are to bringing war…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsEverybody knows that when the pandemic hit, it was an entirely novel virus for which the whole world was unprepared. Nobody at that stage knew how to test for it and nobody knew…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am afraid that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is simply wrong. He is wrong about what we are doing. Of course, we have got to clear the covid backlogs. Everybody…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is entirely right that, after the pandemic, people are now coming forward to get their cancer tests. We have actively encouraged that, and that is the right thing for people to…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThis line of criticism is satirical coming from Labour, attacking our hospital building programme when the Labour Government were the authors of the PFI scheme that bankrupted so…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI have to tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman that I just think this line of attack is not working— [ Interruption. ] It is not working because they refused to approve— […08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsNot only have we raised standards in the NHS, and not only are we reducing waiting times for those who have had to wait the longest, but more fundamentally, we are doing what the…08 Jun 2022