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HANSARDEngagementsIt is 10 out of 10, because we believe in this Government in adhering to the principles of the ministerial code. By the way, and this is an important point, because there are a…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI remind the House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman struggled to define what a woman is. If he cannot make up his mind on that point, heaven help us. This Government are…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsLabour’s plan, always and everywhere, is to raise taxes on business. I remember the right hon. and learned Gentleman campaigning in 2019 on the biggest taxes for business that…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI must respectfully disagree with the implication for the civil service that working from home is everywhere as productive as being in the office. I simply do not accept that. I…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I thank my hon. Friend very much for his campaign, and he is completely right. That is why we have a SEND review, and we will ensure that SEND children and young…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsrose—18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, who is a massive champion for his constituency of North West Durham. I am delighted that he has been a supporter of County Durham’s city of culture…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe intend fully to deliver the dementia moonshot, but never forget that Labour was the party that voted against £13 billion a year extra for the NHS.18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsThere is a lot of pressure on me to dish out yet another hospital from this Dispatch Box. But I can tell my hon. Friend that we are reviewing all applications for the next eight…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI do not know the answer to the hon. Member’s question, but as soon as we can get some information about that, I will make sure that the House is properly informed.18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsNothing could be more transparent from this exchange than Labour’s lust to raise taxes on business. We do not relish it. We do not want to do it. Of course we do not want to do…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI would be grateful if the right hon. and learned Gentleman could send me the details of that sad case. The NHS does cover the costs of those who are on dialysis. By the way, the…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a fantastic campaigner for her constituency, as I discovered just the other day. We are recruiting more police officers: 300 more in Lancashire and 13,576 more…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman needs to understand. To get back to the crucial point, we have been through covid, and we are facing a spike in global energy prices which has been…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am told that driving licences are now being issued faster than they were. I am also told that there are no delays in successful online driving licence applications and that…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI can tell the right hon. Gentleman that I do recognise the challenges that farmers are facing with the cost of their inputs in fuel and fertiliser. That is why we are working so…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI accept that of course there are economic pressures on our country now caused by the factors that we have mentioned, but that is why we have already increased the minimum wage by…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsLocal residents could have no more powerful voice than that of my hon. Friend. The House will have heard him loud and clear. I know that the Department for Levelling Up, Housing…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI will tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman what has happened in the past month. We have got 300,000 more people off welfare and into work, on our Way to Work programme. It…18 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI support the Chancellor’s work in lifting the living wage by a record amount, in making sure that people on universal credit pay £1,000 less in tax, in putting another £22…18 May 2022