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HANSARDCovid-19I certainly wish to pay tribute to everybody involved in the education sector: teachers, parents, pupils, and everybody who has made a heroic effort to cope with this pandemic. I…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, indeed. I will commit to better and fuller information if that is necessary, although of course as my right hon. Friend knows, it is a general principle of these restrictions…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, I will. I have said that I want to have maximum transparency, and I want to see an accelerated roll-out of vaccination in care homes. So far, I believe that 10% of care home…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19The hon. Gentleman makes an eloquent point about the way in which many people in the Rhondda will naturally fall into the high qualifying groups that have already been identified…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I thank my hon. Friend, and I know that our right hon. Friend the Chancellor is going to consider all measures necessary to allow the hospitality sector to bounce back just as…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I thank my hon. Friend, and repeat what I have said several times. I cannot believe that it will be until the end of March that the House has to wait before having a new vote and…06 Jan 2021HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillThat is absolutely right, and the voice of Brixham should be heard up and down the country, because that point is entirely correct and might be registered with advantage by the…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillThe right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well that this is a zero-tariff, zero-quota deal. He says that he would have negotiated a different and better deal. Perhaps…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillAha!30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillRubbish!30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillWell, vote against it then!30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillIn a moment. At the heart of the Bill is, as we have discussed in this Chamber many times, Mr Speaker, one of the biggest free trade agreements in the world: a comprehensive…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI have already given way quite a few times to the right hon. Gentleman. There is no jurisdiction for the European Court of Justice.30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI can assure the hon. Gentleman that the entire UK will share in the programme of investment in our fishing industry. To get ourselves ready across the whole UK for the colossal…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI have answered the point from Opposition Members quite a lot. I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall).30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillMr Speaker, I think that plenty of Members want to speak. I have already taken plenty of interventions and points of order. I am going to make some progress. Just as we have…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI am afraid that yes, he is. Not only will we take back control by becoming an independent coastal state from 1 January, but in five and a half years’ time, we will be able to…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillWith great respect to the right hon. Gentleman, I feel I must correct him. Not only will we take back control of our waters; we will increase Scottish fishermen’s share of all the…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillIt was not quite clear from that intervention which way the Labour party is going to go on this—whether the hon. Gentleman is going to go with the leader of the Labour party and…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI give way with pleasure to the hon. Gentleman, who has been up and down many times.30 Dec 2020