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HANSARDEngagementsWe have not, because in addition to the £3.2 billion, we have already put in another £1.6 billion to support councils delivering frontline services, plus—from memory—another £600…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsWith great respect to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, I have outlined what we are doing to support local government, and I think this country can be very proud of the…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank my hon. Friend for the way he campaigns for business in Aylesbury. We will do what we can to flex the social distancing rules, but only as we make progress in driving…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsNo. The furlough scheme should be available for everybody.17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am concerned about the behaviour of some companies, and many colleagues in the House will have received similar representations from their constituents. I do not want to single…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have understood that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is talking about what he calls an anticipated rise rather than a rise that has actually taken place. A new concept is…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I can tell her and the House that any incident of vandalism or attack on public property will be met with the full force of the law, and…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for what he said about dexamethasone, and I am glad that he is finally paying tribute to the efforts of this country in…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsOf course they should be eligible for those, but as I have said to the right hon. Gentleman repeatedly in the Chamber, those who have no recourse to public funds do have access to…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed; it is absolutely crucial that we do that. There is a big catch-up plan that my right hon. Friend the Education Secretary is going to be announcing very shortly. It is…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI put it to the right hon. Gentleman that there is another way of looking at it. The first point is that the people of this country are heartily sick of us going on about Brexit.…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am very grateful to the hon. Lady, because we take the issue of the UK steel industry very seriously. We are doing everything we can to maintain UK steel production. Clearly it…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate my hon. Friend and the Friends of Chatterley Whitfield colliery on the ambition that he has just outlined for a heritage park. It is a proposal that he needs to…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes. My hon. Friend may not believe it, but when I was the Mayor of London we pioneered social impact bonds to tackle the most entrenched rough sleepers and to give value to…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI know that my right and learned hon. Friend has campaigned on this issue, and I remember the interest that he has taken in online harms. They are an evil. There is a real risk…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have studied my hon. Friend’s proposals with interest. He is an expert in what he speaks of and we will certainly look at all kinds of imaginative ways in which we can stimulate…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsNo, of course not. That is why we are investing massively in universal credit, employment and support allowance, and benefits across the board, to say nothing of the novel schemes…17 Jun 2020HANSARD Global BritainYes. Next year, the UK takes up the chairmanship of the G7, and we have the COP26 climate change summit. Our voice in those proceedings will be greatly magnified by our having a…16 Jun 2020HANSARD Global BritainMy right hon. Friend invites me to comment on the social distancing rules, and he is wholly right that we will continue to review those rules. I am determined to make life as easy…16 Jun 2020HANSARD Global BritainThe hon. Gentleman is entirely right; there was a scandal involving the Pergau dam, and he and I remember it vividly. It was wrong that huge sums were given in aid for a project…16 Jun 2020