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HANSARDEngagementsI am sure that I speak for many Members in this House when I say that I have had direct representations as a constituency MP from women who have suffered from exactly the…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs I am sure my hon. Friend will see from studying the Government advice, we say very clearly that it is important that business should be carried on and that employers should…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I know that everybody will sympathise very much with Daniel Caplan and his family. I will do what I can to ensure that the hon. Lady is able to make representations…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. Hybrids and plug-in cars can certainly make a huge difference and are an important part of our transition to zero emission vehicles, in which this country—certainly…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is not only the kitchen sink, but every part of the kitchen. We are going to build, build, build our way forward. We are going to be supporting the building of 300,000 new…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. In Bradford alone, we have allocated £30 million to help deal with the pressures of the virus. As I said to the House just now, I think we have now put in £4.2…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, of course we are committing to sharing as much data as we have with councils so that they can get on at a local level, as they have been, with dealing with the pandemic.…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI will examine the idea of a scrappage scheme for old and highly polluting aircraft, but I can tell my hon. Friend that long before then, we are putting £3.9 billion into the…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsIn addition to the £160 billion of support that the Government have given to people and firms across the country, we have supported areas and cities in lockdown with considerable…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI know that we have done a number of growth deals in Scotland recently and that we intend to do more. The best I think I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that I will write to him…15 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for an apposite question, because the Health Secretary has committed not just to building 40 new hospitals, but to visiting Doncaster very shortly to…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend raises a very important point. As he knows, on 10 May we set out our plan for cautiously getting our economy open again, and we will be saying more later this week…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman and renew the points I made earlier and the tributes I pay to care home workers. The particular case he raises is important and troubling, so if he…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for everything he has done to champion the voluntary sector and community spirit over many years. I have followed his campaigns with interest and with…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski) behind me says from a sedentary position, “What has the right hon. Gentleman got against Poland?” We will…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have seldom met anybody who was more boosterish for the future of Wales than the Secretary of State for Wales, and that is because this Government are absolutely committed to…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. I can tell him that Lichfield has been at the centre of our cultural life since Dr Johnson and David Garrick made their famous walk and ride from Lichfield…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsFirst, it is this Conservative Government who set out laws against modern slavery. It is this Conservative Government who massively increased the living wage—not only instituted…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI think the right hon. and learned Gentleman has got the old vice of reading out the pre-prepared question without listening to the answer I have just given. I have made it…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well—or he should know very well—that the understanding of the disease has changed dramatically in the months that we have had it.…08 Jul 2020