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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI make no apology for continuing to resist going back into a national lockdown, with all the consequences for mental health and for people’s lives and livelihoods, in the way that…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateListening to the Scottish nationalists, one would have thought that furlough had not applied in Scotland over the last few months. It has been available throughout the UK…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes. I thank my hon. Friend, and I am very glad that Oakberry Trees is able to remain open. I am told that it provided No. 10 with a free Christmas tree five years ago; that is…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAs I have said throughout this afternoon, I make no apology for doing my utmost to keep this economy going and to keep our kids in school, as indeed we are, and for avoiding the…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI appreciate that there are many apparent inconsistencies in a package of measures that no one wants to impose on this country, and my hon. Friend is right to draw the distinction…02 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThat is an easy commitment for me to make, and I am delighted to do so. I can tell my hon. Friend that we are investing nearly £20 million through our city deal in pioneering a…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for everything he does to lobby for that. Our local delivery partner in Devon and Somerset has provided connectivity of the kind that he…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhat I can certainly confirm, as I said in my answer to the first question, is that the black hole in the finances of TfL, the bankruptcy of TfL, which, by the way, was left in…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course I will do whatever I can to help in the particular case that the right hon. Gentleman raises. I do not know whether the tricycle he mentions is eligible for a number of…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhatever the effect of the withdrawal agreement, I can certainly assure my hon. Friend that the UK’s internal market, which I think everybody on both sides of the House values, is…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI really must reject what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, because it bears no relation to the facts or the reality of what the Government are doing to support people…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe will do whatever it takes to get this country through the crisis, with or without the support of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I have explained why I do not believe…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am proud of the one nation Conservative support that we have given to the entire country: £200 billion in support for jobs and livelihoods across the whole of the country…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am very proud that this Government have already given Greater Manchester £1.1 billion in support for business, £200 million in extra un-ring-fenced funding, £50 million to…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am sorry, but I have made it absolutely clear that a part of the country going into tier 3 is in there only for 28 days; we will review it after 28 days. Areas that have gone…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI must respectfully inform the hon. Lady that the current Mayor of London had effectively bankrupted TfL before coronavirus had even hit and left a massive black hole in its…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsrose—21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I thank the people of Luton for their hard and heroic work, as I thank people across the country for what they are doing. I want to support businesses in Luton, which…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI hope I can reassure my hon. Friend by telling him that the incidence in the Vale of Aylesbury is in fact less than half the England average. The way forward for constituents in…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe simplest and most effective way for areas to get out of those restrictions is, of course, to get the R down to 1 or below, and I am very pleased to say that some areas are…21 Oct 2020