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HANSARDEngagementsI was delighted to hear a sort of acceptance there that the hon. Gentleman is running a nationalist party, if that is what he was saying, because I am afraid I agree with that;…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend is completely right to continue to raise the case of Harry Dunn, and we sympathise deeply with his family. It is a case that we continue to raise with the…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsIt will be three years tomorrow since a chemical weapon was deployed by Russian military intelligence on the streets of Salisbury. All our thoughts remain with those affected,…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think anybody listening to this debate will have heard me say that this country—this Government—in the last five years has given £1 billion to support the people of Yemen. I can…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend, and of course we will support all civil servants. By the way, I thank them for the work that they have done up and down the country throughout the…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsIt is under this Government that we have increased aid spending to the highest proportion in the history of our country, and, yes, it is true that current straitened…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe condemn the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. We continue to call for a full independent investigation into the causes of his death, and indeed we have already sanctioned 20 people in…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe UK is part of an international coalition following the UN resolutions, which the right hon. and learned Gentleman will know well and which are very clear that the legitimate…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am sure I speak for everybody when I say how much I welcome the hon. Lady back to PMQs—it is great to see her back. I do give her that assurance, and I think the Turing scheme…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate my hon. Friend on her campaign. It was great to be in Accrington and I hope that she will be hearing even more shortly from my right hon. Friend the Chancellor…03 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes indeed. I congratulate my hon. Friend on his campaign to make his constituency the Riyadh, or possibly the Jeddah, of offshore wind. I can tell him that we are certainly…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsIf the right hon. and learned Gentleman will only wait until next week, I think he will find that we will do far more than that paltry agenda he has set out. It is quite…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsHillingdon Council, in common with most Conservative councils, has been running lower council taxes than Labour up and down the country. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI sympathise very much with the hon. Lady’s constituents and the pupils who have to put up with disruption caused by flooding. I know that the Environment Agency continues to work…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI passionately disagree with what the hon. Gentleman has just said about the spending that was going on. Even before the pandemic we were increasing funding for primary schools—up…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI don’t know about you, Mr Speaker, but the Budget is happening next week, and it is not a date that is concealed from the right hon. and learned Gentleman. He knows when it is…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe road map that we have set out will, I believe, set us on a cautious but irreversible journey to freedom. I am glad that the right hon. and learned Gentleman supports the four…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe will continue to look after people throughout this pandemic and beyond, and the best thing we can do across the whole country is to bounce our economy back as fast as we can…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe sympathies of the whole House will be with my hon. Friend’s constituents and their family and friends, and I agree very much about the importance of learning CPR. That is why…24 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThis morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.24 Feb 2021