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HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is entirely right to raise that issue. It continues to be a cause of grave concern, and I raise it repeatedly with our American friends. I am working with my right…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that it is the current Labour Mayor of London who blew TfL’s finances, which were left in remarkably good condition by the previous Mayor…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI think what has unquestionably been a disaster is the way in which the Scottish nationalist party has taken and used devolution as a means not to improve the lives of its…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I am so sorry. They are national but not nationalist; I see. Right.18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI respectfully refer the right hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave to the Leader of the Opposition. I do think that his policies of wanting to break up the Union are a disaster…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe are certainly working very fast to see whether we can replace the current quarantine arrangements for every category of self-isolation. Whether it will come fast enough for me,…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he is doing to campaign for Grantham and Stamford and for Lincolnshire. I can tell him that we are putting another £125 million into…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is a global pandemic and one in which the UK has, as the hon. Gentleman rightly says, been badly affected, and we mourn every life that has been lost. Of course we are…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI understand the point that my hon. Friend makes and the feeling of unfairness that he describes. What we are trying to do with the business rates holiday and all the other…18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI understand that the case is now under urgent review and a decision will be made shortly.18 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes. I am very pleased that Facebook, Twitter and Google have committed that no company should profit from or promote vaccine disinformation and that companies should respond to…18 Nov 2020HANSARDJustifying Authority for New Nuclear Power: Departmental ResponsibilityResponsibility for the justifying authority for new nuclear power transferred from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to the Department for Environment,…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course we publish all contracts, and quite right too. I would just respectfully remind the hon. Lady, as I reminded the Leader of the Opposition earlier, that it is absolutely…11 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am sure that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will have heard my hon. Friend’s words. I thank him for what he said; he is quite right to champion regional airports and the…11 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI know the whole House will want to join me in sending our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Lord Sacks, who sadly passed away on Saturday. His…11 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsWith great respect to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, he knows full well that the furlough programme has continued throughout this pandemic. It went right the way through to…11 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsUnquestionably, this pandemic has been hard on the people of this country, and unquestionably there are people who have suffered throughout the pandemic and people whose…11 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes. One of the many merits of the excellent conversation I had yesterday with President-elect Joe Biden was that we were strongly agreed on the need once again for the United…11 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman knows, I hope, that we are not only continuing with the uprating of universal credit until next year, but have invested £210 billion in jobs and…11 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes indeed. It was really impressive to see the way the Royal British Legion organised covid-secure memorials across the country. As we salute our veterans, I just want to remind…11 Nov 2020