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HANSARDEngagementsI can certainly confirm that we will do everything we can, and I know that the settled will of most people in this House is to get our schoolchildren back on 8 March, if we…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI can certainly confirm that we are going to develop the eastern leg as well as the whole of the HS2. The hon. Gentleman will be hearing a lot more about what we are going to do…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I thank Brighton and Hove City Council for co-operating with Eastbourne Borough Council in getting this done. There must be co-operation. No one in this country…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I have made it absolutely clear to our EU friends and partners that we want to make our relationship work, but it is also absolutely essential that there should be…10 Feb 2021HANSARDMinisterial and Other Maternity Allowances BillThe Government have today introduced the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill in order to make provision for Ministers and Opposition office holders to be able to take…04 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend, and she is absolutely right to campaign for punishments that fit the crime; we are therefore bringing forward exactly those changes in…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot have it both ways. He simultaneously says that he wants the borders to be kept open for freight reasons or to allow businesses to carry…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsIn respect of the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s last answer, may I advise him to consult YouTube, where he will find an answer? The right hon. and learned Gentleman raises a…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. We will continue to monitor all the evidence about the efficacy of vitamin D and the treatment that he mentions. I am well aware of it;…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for what she does to champion this very, very important cause. It is Children’s Mental Health Week this week, and partly in recognition of the…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe think it is very important that the protocol should not place unnecessary barriers—or barriers of any kind—down the Irish sea. As I said to a colleague earlier, I think it was…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. Of all the challenges now facing the country, the single most important is remedying the damage to children’s education. Yes, of course, we have to clear up the…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think what the people of Scotland want to see is the whole country pulling together and working to develop the vaccine, as that fantastic plant in Scotland is doing. One of the…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI can think of few things more important than to see the roll-out of the vaccination programme across this country, to encourage the wonderful companies who are doing great work…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising this excellent club. I am happy to join him in paying tribute to the work of Paul Gough and Patrick Harley, and everybody at Priory Park boxing…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI do not think anybody wants to take any lectures on speed of roll-out or delivery of programmes from the Scottish nationalist party, but I want the hon. Lady to know that the…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsAs I said earlier on, we are absolutely clear that leaseholders should not have to worry about the costs of fixing historical safety defects that they did not cause. But I…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point about online fraud, which is becoming an increasing concern of the Government. People across the country must be vigilant. As he…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI pass on my sympathies to all those affected by the outbreak of covid that the hon. Gentleman describes. The most important thing we can do is continue to roll out the…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend raises an extremely important point about PTSD in the NHS, and NHS staff, who do an amazing job treating us all. I will certainly look at the particular…03 Feb 2021