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HANSARDEngagementsI utterly share the hon. Gentleman’s frustration about the way in which the EU, particularly the EU Commission, temporarily seemed to use the protocol in such a way as to impose a…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 2021HANSARDEngagementsBritish citizenship is a wonderful thing, and it is fantastic that so many EU nationals have taken up the opportunity to become British in the course of the last few years. I am…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 will study the very interesting proposals that my hon. Friend makes, but in the meantime I will raise them particularly with the Environment Agency, which does a fantastic job…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe are determined that no leaseholder should have to pay for the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects that they did not cause and are no fault of their own. That is why, in…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 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 2021HANSARDEngagementsCaptain Sir Tom Moore—or Captain Tom, as we all came to know him—dedicated his life to serving his country and others. His was a long life lived well, whether during his time…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThis is the right hon. and learned Gentleman who only recently said that quarantine measures are “a blunt instrument” and whose shadow Transport Secretary said that quarantine…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend, who is a long-standing and redoubtable campaigner for law and order and for the police. I also congratulate the PCC, Matthew Scott, on what he is…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThis Government are proud of not only setting up the national living wage, but making sure we had record-breaking increases both last year and this year. That is the most…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsActually, SAGE did not recommend a complete ban and says that a travel ban should not be relied upon to stop the importation of new variants, but we do have one of the toughest…03 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend is entirely right in what he asks for, and I will supply, I hope, exactly that. He will recall how last year we set out a series of dates by which we hoped to do…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsOf course it follows that all teachers in JCVI groups 1 to 9 will be vaccinated as a matter of priority. I pay tribute, by the way, to the huge efforts that parents are making…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsAs I said just now, I do fully understand the frustration and impatience of families across the country who are educating their kids at home. I know how difficult it is. I know…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI repeat what I have said before: we will continue to look after the people of this country throughout this pandemic, and it is a feature of the strength of the UK Treasury that…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI know the stress that people are under—not just school pupils, whom my hon. Friend is right to raise, but particularly NHS workers—during this current wave of the pandemic. It…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, who is a fantastic campaigner for his constituents. I can tell him that we are indeed looking at expanding the free school programme—wave 14 of free…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am conscious that, as the hon. Gentleman says, there have been difficult cases with self-employed people who have not qualified for some of the support that we have offered. I…27 Jan 2021