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HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his characteristically warm words. And actually, the biggest and most powerful and effective advocate of the United Kingdom over my time has…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe had a referendum, as I have told the House before, in 2014, and I think that the right hon. Gentleman should respect the mandate of the people. He keeps saying that he wants…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsListen, I am a great enthusiast for this project. We are looking at it, and I can tell my hon. Friend that Network Rail has received funding to carry out feasibility work on…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI will certainly look into what has happened at the centre in Batley and Spen that the hon. Lady mentions. What I can tell her, though, is that across the country we are investing…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for what he has said. He and I have campaigned on this, and I have been following his campaign for a long time. I am told that the Department for Transport…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI know that my hon. Friend speaks for colleagues up and down the country. We want to make sure that councils are able to build in the right place and sensitively to local needs.…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsOf course I understand the hon. Lady’s indignation about the case she mentions, and I know that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will be looking into it, but the record of…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for her fantastic work on this, and I know the personal circumstances that give her an understanding of that campaign. I can tell her that the National…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think the hon. Lady needs to bring this particular case to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, but I can tell the House— [ Interruption. ] I know, by the way, that many…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend and I were walking together on the seafront in Redcar—eating a lemon top, actually—when somebody raised that very point with us. I can tell him that we have ruled…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 2022HANSARDEngagementsIn case my right hon. Friend missed what else I said, we are cutting taxes for everybody who pays national insurance contributions by an average of £330 just next month. As for…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI can tell the hon. Gentleman that the reports that he has seen this morning are not correct. I can also tell him that the most important commitment that I think everybody in this…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI redirect the hon. Gentleman to what I said to my friend the leader of the SNP, the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford). The more SNP Members campaign,…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, who, among his many other distinctions, is my Member of Parliament, and I join him in thanking the entire team at the Princes Centre for everything that…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsActually, I can tell the hon. Gentleman that 91% of people are getting their passports within six weeks, and we are putting hundreds and hundreds more staff members into the…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Member and I can tell him that what we are doing right now is helping 8 million households across the country with £1,200 of support, £300 for pensioners who are…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Address to Her Majesty: Platinum JubileeI beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty to offer the heartfelt good wishes and loyal devotion of the House on the occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary…26 May 2022HANSARD Address to Her Majesty: Platinum JubileeI am sure the hon. Gentleman knows whereof he speaks. There have been times when I have been scrabbling to remember a historical date or the name of some African capital, and she…26 May 2022