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HANSARDEngagementsI note that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will not take back his criticism and his attack on NHS Test and Trace, and I regret that. I gave him the opportunity to withdraw…09 Sept 2020HANSARDMachinery of GovernmentI am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following machinery of government change. PEACE PLUS Programme I can confirm that Her Majesty’s Government’s…07 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend makes a very interesting point, and I am sure that point of view is shared by many people in this country. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Digital,…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is a rare privilege to ask a question in the House, so you would have thought, Mr Speaker, that they could have come up with something better than that. This is a global…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI heartily endorse, I am afraid, the sentiments that my right hon. and learned Friend has expressed. Anybody who has worked with HS2 over the past few years will know that it does…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. I have a great deal of sympathy with those who are so desperate as to put their children in dinghies, or even children’s paddling pools, and try to cross…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and, yes, it was incredibly exciting to go to Appledore and see the potential of that yard and see what Harland and Wolff is doing there. Also,…02 Sept 2020HANSARDPoint of OrderMay I first say what a wonderful staycation holiday I had in the right hon. Gentleman’s constituency, what a fantastic part of the world it is, and how thoroughly I commend it to…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI direct the hon. Lady to what I have said already, which is that there will always be those who argue for an infinite extension of the furlough scheme, and who want to keep…02 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.02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, and I know the whole House will want to join me in sending our condolences to the family and friends of Brett McCullough, Donald Dinnie and Christopher…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsPerhaps I could begin by congratulating the right hon. and learned Gentleman on his birthday? I say to him, on the exams and the stress that young people have been through over…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well, Ofqual made it absolutely clear time and again that in its view the system that was in place was robust. Ofqual is,…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is a Leader of the Opposition who backed remaining in the EU and now is totally silent on the subject. Now he has performed a U-turn. He backed that, and perhaps he still…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI think it would be helpful to all those who are watching to know—02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, if I may say so, I think it would be helpful to all those who are watching to know that this Opposition, and this Leader of the Opposition, said absolutely nothing to…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhat we are doing in this Government is getting our pupils back to school, in spite of all the doubts that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has tried to sow, and we are…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I am very happy to say that I listened to the protestations of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, and I think they would have been more in order, throughout the…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI take full responsibility for everything that has happened under this Government throughout my period in office. Actually, what has happened so far is that we have succeeded in…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I say to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that it is absolutely typical of him that he should frame it in that way? Of course I am very happy to meet the families and the…02 Sept 2020