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HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, because she gave me advance notice of this question. This is really a case for a project speed, and I hope that Highways England, which is…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Lady, because she is raising a very important point. Getting kids back into school has been the most important objective that we have had over the last…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, and he is completely right that the legal position is currently very difficult because of the inflexible and rigid Dublin regulation on returns. What is…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. My hon. Friend can certainly reassure his constituents that our purpose, and the purpose of the package that carried overwhelming support in this House yesterday, is…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is an obvious fact of biology and epidemiology that, alas, this disease is transmitted by human contact or aerosol contact. One of the great advantages of NHS Test and…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point of scepticism about the medical forecasts. All I can say is that everybody should look at what has already happened in the first…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt grieves me to see football clubs—Mansfield, Norwich City and others—not able to go back in the way that they want to right now. I totally sympathise with my hon. Friend and…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman. Very simply, it is to keep doing what we have been doing, but to intensify our support for every part of the Union and—from spaceports to backing our…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe cause of education in Tiverton can have no more fervent and effective advocate than my hon. Friend, and although the first 50 schools have not yet been announced, my right…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhat I can certainly tell the hon. Gentleman is that I am not an enthusiast for encouraging the spread of gambling in this country.23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman is entirely right about the gravity of the situation, and although it is true that some firms are powering through this, many face very difficult circumstances.…23 Sept 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.23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI hesitate to reprove the right hon. and learned Gentleman for a flaw that he sometimes seems to fall into, which is not listening to my previous answer. I gave a very clear…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsAbsolutely; I congratulate Launch UK on what it is doing. As the hon. Gentleman rightly says, the project would create 250 full-time jobs, including 130 at the facility in Forres.…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsCome on: the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well—or he will have read the advice from the four chief medical officers—that there is an exceptionally small risk…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsLet us be in absolutely no doubt that the work that this Government have done to protect this country’s economy and support the jobs of 12 million people through the furlough…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThese are indeed tough times, and I have no doubt that many businesses and many employees are feeling a great deal of anxiety and uncertainty, and we will do our level best to…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI know what a passionate supporter of Mansfield Town my hon. Friend is, and I want to thank John and Carolyn Radford for all they have done for the club. The Secretary for State…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have absolutely no idea. It is totally baffling, because it is a Bill that underpins a massive transfer of powers back to Scotland from Brussels. About 70 powers and…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady simply cannot be unaware that the campaign to get the world’s leaders to sign up to a leaders’ declaration on biodiversity has been led over the past few weeks by…23 Sept 2020