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HANSARDEngagementsThe 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 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 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 2020HANSARDEngagementsI beseech the right hon. Gentleman just to think that he may be mistaken. The UK Government are absolutely dedicated to supporting people of all incomes across the country. That…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 thank my hon. Friend very much for that question. I congratulate him on what he is doing to support the wonderful new eco and green energy park, and I look forward to joining…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 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 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 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 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman might first pay tribute to the work of this Government in protecting 11 million jobs throughout this crisis. He might draw attention to the…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCabinet CommitteesToday I am publishing an updated Cabinet Committee list. I have placed a copy of the new list in the Libraries of both Houses. [HCWS317]29 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI hesitate to accuse the right hon. and learned Gentleman of obscurantism. He is misleading on the key point. The number of people with covid in this country is, of course, an…24 Jun 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.24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsOn the contrary. I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has been stunned by the success of the test and trace operation. Contrary to his prognostications of gloom, it…24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsInadvertently misleading—24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman is inadvertently giving a false impression of what Test and Trace is doing. The 33,000 cases in the country is, of course, an estimate. NHS…24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsEverybody understands—we have seen it already, across the country—that when there are local outbreaks, for instance in Weston-super-Mare or in GP surgeries in north London, there…24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI wonder whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman can name a single country in the world that has a functional contract tracing app—there isn’t one. What we have—and what, I…24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am afraid that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is completely wrong, because no country in the world has a working contact tracing app. I have always been clear—we have…24 Jun 2020