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HANSARDEngagementsThe only reasonable answer to that question is that I think it is highly unlikely that those letters will arrive. The right hon. Gentleman does a gross injustice to Scotland and…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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2020HANSARDEngagementsI visited Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital yesterday to see the first clinically approved vaccine being given to people in London, as it is now across the country. This is a…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am delighted to accept the thanks of the hon. Gentleman. I have to say that it is really thanks to him and the Scottish National party that we have been able to keep our…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI really must respectfully disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has set out very clear criteria for the groups, starting with…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to this injustice and what is happening with leaseholders at the moment. That is why we have put £1.6 billion into removing…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 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 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a magnificent and doughty campaigner for Wakefield. I know that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will listen very closely to his call for the national…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am proud that the UK led the way in instituting a target of net zero by 2050; of all the developed nations, we were the first. We are looking at our nationally determined…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsOn the last point, that is a matter for the Scottish Government, who have the fiscal freedom to do that. I thank health and social care workers in Scotland and across the whole…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. My hon. Friend is completely right about the importance of the new UK shared prosperity fund. It will be different from the levelling-up fund, and we are going to…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for his excellent suggestion. He is a great champion of small business. Every measure that the Government produce is judged by the effect or impact it…02 Dec 2020