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HANSARDEngagementsThroughout the pandemic we have done whatever we can to look after people throughout the country, whether those on benefits or those who have lost their jobs, sadly, because of…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThat is absolutely true. It is Conservative Governments who invest in Eastleigh; it is Conservative Governments putting £640 billion into an infrastructure revolution. I…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsIf the hon. Member had read the article I wrote this morning in The Daily Telegraph , he would have seen that the things that we have set out in the Hendy review will be of…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThat was a delightfully concise question, but the hon. Member is wrong about the difference between Erasmus and the Turing project. Unlike the Erasmus scheme, which overwhelmingly…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe last time that we put this to a vote, the right hon. and learned Gentleman voted against it, as I said before. We are increasing pay for nurses. We are massively increasing…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhat the public know is that we have increased starting pay for nurses by 12.8% over the past three years. They know that, in the past year, this Government have put another…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman voted against the document in question, which just crowns the absurdity of his point. Under this Government we have massively increased…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsNo. Of course, we will look at what the independent pay review body has to say, exceptionally, about the nursing profession, whom we particularly value, but the right hon. and…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI repeat the point that I have made: I believe that we all owe a massive debt to our nurses and, indeed, all our healthcare workers and social care workers. One of the things that…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for what he is doing to campaign for his local area on flood defences. I thank the Environment Agency for the tireless, imaginative and creative work it…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is indeed right that we owe a huge amount to our nurses—an incalculable debt—which is why I am proud that we have delivered a 12.8% increase in the starting salary…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe whole House can be proud of the UK’s vaccination programme, with more than 22.5 million people now having received their first dose across the UK. We can also be proud of the…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank my hon. Friend; I know that he supported the bid for the reinstatement of the Stoke to Leek line. That is currently being assessed by the Department for Transport as…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsAs I told the hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper) earlier on, we owe a massive debt as a society, and I do personally, to the nurses of our NHS. That is why we have asked the…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think students should choose the Turing project because it is fantastic and reaches out across the whole country. I believe, by the way, that they should reject the SNP—a…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. and learned Friend has been a great champion of the arts and culture sectors, and he is completely right about the role that they can play for young people in the…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am very happy to take up my hon. Friend’s suggestion. I am not the greatest chef myself, but I have made, and can make, from memory, a fish pie with haddock and prawns, which I…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, I am certainly very happy to discuss that with my hon. Friend, or to make sure she gets access to the relevant ministerial authority. What we are doing, in addition to the…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think that jobs fairs are an important thing, and I know that colleagues across the House do them, but I also think that the Government can be proud of our record in getting…10 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsNo, because I think that the Turing scheme is fairer and will enable students on lower incomes to have access to great courses around the world. I believe it is a highly…10 Mar 2021