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HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is completely right. This has been a colossal team effort. It has been led by the NHS, with GPs very often doing the lion’s share of the work, but they have been…14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. We will look at what Sir Peter has to say. He has come up with some very interesting interim proposals, particularly about improving connectivity along the…14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI share my hon. Friend’s indignation about litter. I think that it is one of the things on which the whole of the country and, I hope, the whole of the House are united. That is…14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe best thing the SNP can do, as I have said, for the rights of the child in Scotland is to improve their shameful record on education and to tackle the issues that matter to the…14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsThis is complete nonsense. The Government of the United Kingdom ratified the UN convention on the rights of the child 30 years ago. We all supported it. This is nothing to do with…14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhile the right hon. and learned Gentleman was prosecuting MPs, I was cutting crime in London by 23% and cutting the murder rate by 50%. He asks about lobbying on behalf of…14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsIf the right hon. and learned Gentleman has any such information, he should of course make it available to Mr Boardman; that is the point of his review. It is an independent…14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsIt was rather a good point!14 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI know colleagues across the House will wish to join me in paying tribute to our dear friend and colleague, Dame Cheryl Gillan, who sadly died last week. MP for Chesham and…14 Apr 2021HANSARDHis Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghI beg to move, That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty expressing the deepest sympathies of this House on the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of…12 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsNot only was this the first Government to create a Veterans Minister specifically with a charge of looking after veterans, and not only have we invested in them, but we have taken…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank Leicestershire County Council for the way it is conducting itself and for delivering value for money. That is what the elections that are coming up in May are all…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsOf course. The right hon. Gentleman represents a party that is so devoid of imagination that they cannot come up with any workable solutions to help the people of Scotland improve…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI knew it would not be long—there they are! There are a couple of reasons. First of all, senior members of the hon. Member’s party said that it was a “once in a generation” event…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much for raising this important question and for championing research into motor neurone disease, and I thank him also for raising the excellent work…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI want to say to the hon. Gentleman that I know that the whole House shares my sympathies and my sorrow for his loss, and we sympathise also with his entire family. I know that…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady for raising the case. My deepest sympathies are with Danielle and her family. I will make sure that the relevant Health Minister meets her to discuss the…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI hope very much that the Football Association will have listened carefully to what my hon. Friend has said and that they will do what they can. I look forward to 17 May, when…24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes.24 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThat is exactly why we put in temporary and technical measures to allow free trade to continue across the whole of the UK. It is very important for those who object to the…24 Mar 2021