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HANSARDEngagementsMay I start by commending the Together initiative for organising this coming Sunday what will hopefully be the nation’s biggest ever Thank You Day to mark the birthday of the NHS?…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsTo start with, the right hon. Gentleman probably does the spokesman in question a serious injustice, because I do not believe he would have taken this issue anything other than…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI must say I find the suggestion absolutely astonishing and shameful. There have been no discussions with the Scottish Administration about that, but I point out to my hon. Friend…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe have done a huge amount. The right hon. Gentleman is a tireless campaigner on this matter, but the House will accept that we have done a huge amount to increase support for…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do not wish to accuse the hon. Gentleman of failing to listen to what I have been saying over the past few days, but in addition to the £120 billion of support that we have put…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe will certainly invest massively in hydrogen. I cannot make any particular undertakings now about where those contracts will go, but as the hon. Gentleman knows well, I am a big…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is becoming quite a theme this morning, and quite rightly too. I am a fan of Chickenshed Theatre and I know its work. We will do everything we can to assist; the economic…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI can certainly confirm that, and I know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education has been working with the Department for Transport on that very matter.01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well, the test, track and trace operation is reaching huge numbers of people and causing them to self-isolate in ways that I do…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsLet me repeat and remind the House that, overall, the package represents a £600 billion package of investment in the UK economy. The best single thing we can do is get our economy…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe stand for rules and obligations, and think that they are the soundest basis for our international relations. The enactment and imposition of this national security law…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe victims have waited too long for these payments, and the way to unblock the progress is through the designation of a department to provide support for the victims’ payments…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady raises a very important point about the self-employed. As she knows, we have provided very considerable support as part of the overall package of £120 billion—I…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe House is speaking with pretty much one voice this afternoon. I totally share people’s sense of urgency about wanting to get our wonderful creative culture and theatrical…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI certainly do. Fraud is corrosive of public trust and wasteful of public money. It is vital that all councils learn the lessons of that report, and I thank my hon. Friend for…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on returning so fast to the fray on that issue. He is absolutely right, and the best thing I can do is write to him immediately, setting…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am afraid the right hon. and learned Gentleman is mistaken, because both pillar 1 and pillar 2 data have been shared, not just with Leicester, but with all authorities across…01 Jul 2020HANSARD National Audit OfficeI beg to move, That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that Her Majesty will appoint Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE to the Office of Chair of the National Audit…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend brilliantly sums up the approach that we want to take. We want our seaside communities and fantastic national tourist areas to feel confident about welcoming…01 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman very much for his service in the police, and for raising an important subject that I have followed for many years. The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher was…01 Jul 2020