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HANSARDInvestigatory Powers Commissioner: Annual Report 2019I have today laid before both Houses a copy of the annual report of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner 2019. The report was drafted and submitted by the Investigatory Powers…15 Dec 2020HANSARDInvestigation of Unauthorised Disclosure on 30 OctoberAt the beginning of Prime Minister’s Questions on 18 November, I updated the House on the Cabinet Office investigation into the unauthorised disclosure on 30 October of the…15 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Government of this country have done everything we can to support business and support lives and livelihoods throughout this pandemic, with now, I think, more than £260…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI hope the hon. Lady knows that we are moving away dramatically and at speed from UK Export Finance supporting fossil fuel exploration around the world, but, of course,…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI was saying, Mr Speaker, that my hon. Friend is completely right about the power of great infrastructure projects to deliver jobs, which is why we are getting on with both the…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is wonderful to get to the end of that question. I can tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman that we have already invested £1 billion in getting this country ready for…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI think it is a bit much of the Leader of the Opposition to criticise the Government for failure to come up with a policy on Brexit and to attack the putative consequences of…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am delighted to welcome the right hon. and learned Gentleman here, from his vantage point of exile in Islington, his spiritual home, and wish him all the best in his…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course. Our view, as the hon. Gentleman knows well, is that we have serious concerns about what is happening between India and Pakistan, but these are pre-eminently matters for…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI must, again, strongly disagree with what the hon. Gentleman says. Everybody on this side of the House is proud not just of the living wage but of record increases in the living…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, and just this morning I was discussing Derbyshire’s bid for a big community testing programme. We will obviously do everything we can to support them, and I thank my hon.…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI will indeed. I think everybody in the House recognises the distress that unauthorised camps and encampments can cause to local communities, and my right hon. and learned Friend…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend and congratulate him on his achievement and on his anniversary. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is looking very seriously at the…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is crucial to understand that the 10-point plan for the green industrial revolution is about jobs, jobs, jobs. This plan, whether it is retrofitting homes or making wind…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsIndeed; I was astounded to see that 42 Opposition Members wrote to the Home Secretary opposing the deportation of foreign national criminals, while the leader of the Labour party…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, you should summon him back—he seems to have vanished. While the right hon. and learned Gentleman tries to work out what his position is, we are getting on with the…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend. He is entirely right: a good deal is still there to be done, and I look forward to discussing it with Commissioner von der Leyen tonight, but I must…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI want to thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his final baffling question. Last week, as I have said, he sphinx-like avoided any pronouncement on how this country was…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a big expert in this field and a great campaigner for transport. He is right about the massive impact that these programmes can have on jobs. [Interruption.]09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI share the hon. Lady’s anxiety about the impact of differential learning on kids in our schools across the country, because there is no doubt that different groups have been…09 Dec 2020