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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend is completely right, and that is why we are bringing in this package.12 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI understand the point that my hon. Friend makes. The regular job support scheme will of course be available to businesses that are open but not able to trade in the way that they…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on our continuing fight against coronavirus and how we intend to fulfil our simultaneous objectives of saving lives and…12 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is very important that students should return to university in the way that they have, and I want to thank the overwhelming majority of students for the way that they have…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, I can indeed confirm to my hon. Friend that, in addition to the particular support that he mentions, we are directing another £160 billion of support for business and local…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman is entirely right, and I am sure his words will have been heard loud and clear by our friends in Brussels, but just in case they have not, of course we…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, who represents a constituency that I once fought for—he represents it well, but I do not think I fought for it very well. I know the A483/A5 connection…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe problem is, alas, that the disease continues to spread in the way that I described to the House earlier. The figures that the right hon. and learned Gentleman gives are no…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot have it both ways; he cannot call it a human error and a basic Excel error. Let me just remind the House and the right hon. and learned…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is certainly a problem that we have fixed. The computer glitch and error to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman refers has been addressed. All the 16,000 people he…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course we keep all these things under constant review, but I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman joins the Opposition in support—and approval now—of what the Government have…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI can indeed. I congratulate my hon. Friend on his new book. I assure him that not only has this country left the European Union, but on 1 January we will take back full control…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is entirely right to raise the issue of support for hospitality. In areas that face tougher restrictions we will continue to do whatever we can to provide support.…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, because it was indeed as part of our plan to fuel a green economic recovery that we put £14 million from the Getting Building fund into Peterborough to…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do not want in any way to underestimate the importance of what the right hon. Gentleman is saying. It is vital that we tackle poverty in this country. That is why this…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThat is exactly what this Government were elected to do in 2019. We were elected on a manifesto not just to build 40 more hospitals—now 48—and put 20,000 more police on our…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI share the hon. Lady’s feeling about the loss of jobs, and the potential loss of jobs, and it is wretched that we have to do this. We have already allocated £2.6 billion to the…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. We are building a new hospital at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, and there will be a major refurbishment at Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman has heard from me and heard repeatedly from the Government why we are bringing in differentiated local restrictions. I have just given the…07 Oct 2020