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HANSARDEngagementsI do indeed. I believe that the G7 summit in Carbis Bay will be an opportunity to not only bring the world together to tackle covid, to build back better, to champion global free…20 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe Home Office is actively working to assess the damage. As the right hon. and learned Gentleman will know from the urgent question that was held in the House only a few days…20 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsThat will depend on how long it takes to recover them. I can tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman that people are working around the clock, having been briefed on this both…20 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think, last March, the right hon. and learned Gentleman, along with many others, was actually saying that we did not need to close the borders, but as usual, Captain Hindsight…20 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe have instituted one of the toughest border regimes in the world, and it was only last March that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, along with many others in his party, was…20 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point about the need to improve flood defences, which is why we are investing £2.6 billion in 1,000 flood defences in England in the next six…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsThere are 9,000 fantastic community pharmacies across our country. They do an amazing job. What we want to ensure is that we get doses to the places where they are going to be…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am sure Members of the House will want to join me in offering our condolences to the family and friends of our former colleague Brian Binley, who died over Christmas, and who…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI certainly thank the GP vaccination centre in St Albans for what it is doing and for its wonderful work. It is thanks to primary care networks across the country that we have…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for what he says about the roll-out of vaccines. I can tell him that we will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can, and my right…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsOf course, what the right hon. and learned Gentleman fails to point out is that on 18 December, two days later, the Government were informed about the spread of the new variant,…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman’s words would be less hypocritical and absurd if it were not for the fact that the—13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am delighted to be advised by you, Mr Speaker. Let me confine my criticism to the absurdity—which I hope is acceptable, Mr Speaker—of the right hon. and learned Gentleman…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman continually advocates the break-up of the Union of the United Kingdom and going back into the European Union, even though that would be immensely…13 Jan 2021HANSARDCouncil of Europe: UK DelegationThe hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Cherilyn Mackrory) has been appointed as a substitute Member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am delighted that my hon. Friend is campaigning for a freeport. I am a passionate supporter of freeports. There will be a process, as she knows, and successful applicants will…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsAs the hon. Gentleman says, we believe that using threats of firing and rehiring is unacceptable as a negotiating tactic, and there are laws in place to ensure that contractual…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsFirst, we are introducing knife crime prevention orders, which are placing curbs and limits to deter young people from going equipped and getting involved in knife crime. We have…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe keep things under constant review and we will continue to do so, and certainly, if there is any need to toughen up restrictions, which I do not rule out, we will of course come…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI do not think anybody in this House is happy with the disgraceful images that we have seen of the food parcels that have been offered. They are appalling; they are an insult to…13 Jan 2021