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HANSARDSue Gray ReportMr Speaker, I am trying to set out the context, not to mitigate or to absolve myself in any way. The exemption under which those staff were present in Downing Street includes…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsThere is no surprise about Labour’s lust to put up taxes; there is nothing original about that thought. Labour Members get off on it; they absolutely love to confiscate other…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Government have acted, and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor continues to act. This is the Government who not only put in the living wage—it was a Conservative…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I want to begin by echoing what you have just said about the reports of the fatal shooting in a Texan primary school. Our thoughts are with all those affected by this…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsThere is nothing original about a Labour plan to tax business. Labour wants to tax business the whole time. Every day, the party wants to put up taxes on business. What we are…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman very much, but I can tell him, actually, that what we are doing is massively increasing the speed with which the Passport Office…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsLet me say very plainly: does anybody seriously think for a second that the Labour party would have done that when eight of the shadow Front Bench, including the shadow Foreign…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a fantastic champion for his constituents and for Addenbrooke’s. We are very proud of our NHS, which is why we are putting in record investment. I hope that the…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI can tell the right hon. Gentleman that, much as I appreciate his advice, he will have a further opportunity, which I am sure he will take with his customary length, to debate…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman very much, and I direct him to the report. I think it would be to his advantage to look through it and then I think we should return to it after…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsHear, hear, Mr Speaker—up the Vale! I thank my hon. Friend for his campaign, and I think he is entirely right. We have adopted the measures that he proposes in the Bill so that…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, I can. I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is absolutely right that Labour’s instinct everywhere and always is to put up tax, with all its— [ Interruption. ] Well, Labour…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman loves running this country down. [Interruption.] How many times did he come to this place and say that the United Kingdom had the highest…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsFirst of all, what we are doing is making sure that after a huge pandemic we are funding our vital public services, which we can because of the steps that we took. What we are…25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportI really do not think the Government can be blamed for the delay that the hon. Member complains of. It took a long time for the Met to do its work, which was exhaustive, and I do…25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportI have apologised and, as I said, I am deeply contrite about what happened. I take responsibility. We have already made a huge amount of change in No. 10, and it is my judgment…25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportWe were dealing with an unprecedented pandemic, and we did not have any immediate tools to control it, short of a vaccine, without asking people to restrict their behaviour. I am…25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportI would be very happy to look at those details if the hon. Lady will send them to me.25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportIs the hon. Gentleman referring to the vaccine programme, the securing of PPE, or the fact that we came out of covid faster than any other European country?25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportTo repeat what I said both earlier and to the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern), when I have identified the custodians, cleaners and staff in question, I will of…25 May 2022