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HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I know that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has done everything he can to help businesses throughout this pandemic, and that is why he has…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 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 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe are putting £100 million into supporting the fishing industry in Scotland and across the whole of the UK. It is the policy of the Scottish nationalist party not only to break…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 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 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 must disagree very profoundly with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said. He knows very well that within 24 hours of getting the advice on 18 December about…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 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 2021HANSARDEngagementsNot only have we uprated universal credit by £1,000, but, as I have said, we have increased the local housing allowance, the living wage and many, many other benefits. We will…13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsOf course I am familiar with the superb workforce in Shropshire to which my hon. Friend refers. There is a competition currently going on, and negotiations are going on with the…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 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 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am sure the right hon. Lady, for whom I have a keen regard, would not wish to accuse the Chancellor of wilful misrepresentation, Mr Speaker. All the cash that we have announced,…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19We have increased the support for those who are self-isolating and, obviously, have increased the penalties for those who fail to do so when they are asked to by Test and Trace.…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I think that my hon. Friend perfectly captures the mood of the country about the vaccine roll-out. That is what we all want to see. We want to see a great national effort now, and…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19They have not been excluded, and we continue to support people across the country. Furlough will indeed be continued further, as the hon. Gentleman knows. He should just bear in…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for his words about the vaccine taskforce. It was, as I say, satirised by the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I really must ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw what he has just said. I did not at any stage say that schools were not safe—that is absolutely not what I said. In all fairness,…06 Jan 2021