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HANSARDEngagementsI hesitate to accuse the right hon. Gentleman of failing to listen to my last answer, but it is clear that the UK Internal Market Bill is massively devolutionary, with 70 powers…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs the hon. Lady knows, we already have in place the job retention scheme and the bonus of £1,000 for employers keeping on furloughed workers. She also knows about the £2 billion…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course, and I thank my hon. Friend very much for his question because it allows me to point out that there is massive opportunity to build back better on brownfield sites. That…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes indeed. I thank the local authorities and people of Luton, who are obviously working very hard to ensure that they contain the epidemic, as are other local authorities around…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I well remember Bethany and her question, and I know how difficult this problem is for many people. I can certainly commit to him to…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman very much for his question. As he knows, we have removed VAT from all PPE, including VAT on face masks that, as everybody knows, can protect from…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, and I am proud that we have fulfilled our manifesto promise. We are levelling up school funding across the country so that every primary school pupil receives at least £4,000…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThat is wonderful advice, which I will take to heart. I look forward to joining my hon. Friend for a game of Poohsticks in the Hundred Acre Wood. Would it not be a wonderful thing…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI was proud as Mayor of London to change the London plan to ensure that we went for Parker Morris plus 10% for our space standards. We will ensure that we not only build back…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for the extreme tact with which she expressed her question. She makes a very important point, because I am afraid that there are significant…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe have already given the East Riding of Yorkshire more than £21 million to deal with the pressures of coronavirus. We have supported 90% of caravan manufacturers, whom the hon.…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do indeed agree with that. It would be a fantastic thing to hear the Labour party stand up to their friends in the unions and issue the same instruction—that would be a…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsNo, and I think that is a pretty lamentable way of looking at it—it is a lamentable question. If the right hon. Gentleman thought there was genuinely something in the ISC report…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend, and I can absolutely give her that guarantee. In the current circumstances, now is the time to double down on levelling up and that is what we are…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThat is why the Foreign Secretary, only this week, condemned the treatment of the Uyghurs. That is why this Government, for the first time, have brought in targeted sanctions…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThere is no other Government in the world who take more robust steps to protect our democracy, to protect our critical national infrastructure and to protect our intellectual…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House I shall have further such meetings later today.22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course, I would be very happy to look at whatever the hon. Lady’s group produces.22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsIndeed I can. We are funding 178 projects throughout England through our £180 million coastal communities fund, and Truro will receive at least £500,000 from the towns fund this…22 Jul 2020HANSARDIntelligence and Security Committee: Publication of the Russia ReportThe Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) has today laid before Parliament a report on Russia, examining the Russian threat to the UK and the UK’s response. I…21 Jul 2020