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HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I will study the plan he proposes with care, although I should tell him that a massive infrastructure programme is already under way, as the…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have deep sympathy for Ickford in my hon. Friend’s constituency and the flooding it has suffered; I know Ickford. It is very important that local authorities follow the rules in…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is dead right. What we are going to do is use the new freedoms we have after leaving the common agricultural policy to support farmers to beautify the landscape to…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course I agree that the UK should be playing a leading role in eradicating covid-19 around the world. That is why one of the wonderful features of the Oxford AstraZeneca…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed; I can give that guarantee. Our position on fish has not changed. We will only be able to make progress if the EU accepts the reality that we must be able to control…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. How typical of Labour politicians locally to oppose what they call for nationally. I am proud that we are going ahead with a brand new state-of-the-art hospital to be…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady will recognise, at a time when the private sector—when the UK economy—has been so badly hit, and when private sector workers have seen falls in their income, that it…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsGood morning, Mr Speaker. I hope very much that our connection works today. This is my last day of virtual meetings with ministerial colleagues and others before I come out of…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Member is right to call attention to the difficulties many people are facing because of the EWS1 form, and I sympathise very much with them. Mortgage companies should…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have high regard for my hon. Friend, and he is right to call attention to the dangers and damage that lockdowns can do. Of course, they have to be weighed against the damage to…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course we are not going to extend the transition period, but we want to make practical arrangements to help businesses in Northern Ireland. We have agreed, for instance, a…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI believe that the Ministers of this Government are working hard and overall doing an outstanding job in delivering the people’s priorities, and that is what we will continue to…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsActually, to answer the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s question directly, 99.5% of the 32 billion items of personal protective equipment that this country secured conformed…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is this party and this Government who have given key workers and public sector workers above-inflation pay rises this year, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows,…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsIn so far as there are any conflicts of interest, they will be evident from the publication of all the details of all the contracts. Again, the right hon. and learned Gentleman…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. That is why we have allocated an additional £560 million this year for essential maintenance and upgrades in the school estate, on top of more than £1.4 billion. In…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, listening to Opposition Members talking about the 0.7% commitment, you would think that they invented it. It was a Conservative Government who instituted it, and this…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI would be happy to look at that specific grant again, but I have to say that if the right hon. Gentleman looks at what we have done so far with supporting universal credit and…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, I do agree with that, and that is why we have frozen ministerial salaries this year, as indeed they have been frozen by successive Conservative Governments since 2010. I know…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is completely right about the need to support local business, particularly in the hospitality sector. He should know that, in addition to the £3,000 grant for…25 Nov 2020