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HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for campaigning for places of worship in the way that he does, and I am so deeply sorry that these restrictions have to be put in place right now. We will…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend. He is completely right about the paramount importance of keeping our schools open. Out of this crisis has come at least one potentially innovative…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I think that he is raising the 1983 miners’ strike—or the early 1980s at any rate. I would be obliged to him if he could send me further…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. That is indeed disappointing, because over 2,500 laptops and tablets and 400 routers were delivered to Leeds City Council for disadvantaged…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am not going to pretend that every aspect of NHS Test and Trace has worked in the way that I wanted to, but as I said earlier on, it has achieved some very considerable things.…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThe hon. Gentleman cannot take yes for an answer. Not only will I come to that point later, but my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will be saying more about the matter tomorrow,…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsIn answer to the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s opening question, of course we do not comment, as a UK Government, on the democratic processes of our friends and allies, and I…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthMy hon. Friend raises a very important point, and it is the crux of the debate. Alas, as leaders and as politicians, we have to look at the immediate peril we face. I do not in…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI can certainly confirm that we are going ahead with Northern Powerhouse Rail. In addition, I can tell my hon. Friend that Cheadle will receive at least £500,000 from the towns…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthI can assure my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) that his future is rosy. It is right for Members on all sides of this House to have the doubts…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthIt is absolutely right for hon. Members to consult relevant documents that may contain information to the advantage and betterment of the House.04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthMy right hon. Friend makes a very important point. He is expressing a point of view that is shared by many people, but, alas, I believe that he is wrong. The facts do not support…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThe whole House will share my sorrow and regret at the necessity of these measures, which I know is a perspective shared by my right hon. Friend—and I am happy to give way to him.04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThe hon. Gentleman is exactly right, and has encapsulated the argument that we make. My right hon. Friend the Health Secretary and I have talked repeatedly to Simon Stevens of the…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthYes. I really do not know how to exhaust my affirmative vocabulary any further—they won’t take yes for an answer, Mr Speaker. All of this comes on top, as the hon. Gentleman knows—04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am very interested in what the hon. Lady says because, as she knows, this Government are investing massively in 5,000 low-carbon buses. I would be interested to know what type…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsYou have asked for speed in my answers, Mr Speaker, and the answer to my right hon. Friend is basically yes. I reiterate that we are committed to that 2.4% and to increasing…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI hesitate to accuse the hon. Lady of not listening to what I have just said, but I want to repeat that the furlough is a UK-wide scheme that will, of course, continue to be…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do indeed believe that such a deal would be massively in the interests of our EU friends and partners, as well as anybody else, but that is of course up to them. What I can tell…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do indeed congratulate all the voluntary organisations that have stepped up, and I am proud that this Government have also helped to fund them to the tune of billions of…04 Nov 2020