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HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is running a great campaign, and she is absolutely right: the Government are indeed providing funds to improve autism and learning disability services, but it is…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe are helping families up and down the country with the universal credit taper. The right hon. Gentleman asks about universal credit; we are tapering it so that working people…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat we are doing for working people is not only lifting the living wage by a record amount and helping people on universal credit with a £1,000 tax cut, but cutting national…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI have listened to the right hon. and learned Gentleman over many weeks and many years, and this guy is doomed to be a permanent spectator. We have a plan to fix the NHS and fix…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for what he and his Select Committee have been doing in this area to tighten the screw on Putin’s regime. UK companies have already shown that they…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is an avid champion for his constituents. He might have missed what I said earlier, but there are now 13,576 more police on the streets of this country as a result…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe are working with Ofgem and all the companies to ensure that we protect people at this difficult time. We are also making sure that we support people, and not just through the…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think the whole House will want to support the balance and symmetry of the Good Friday agreement. That is what really matters, and it is a great legacy for all of us. It is…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat we have done in just the last few months is put in £22 million to help people with the cost of living. I want to pay tribute to those businesses that are now trying to…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat we are doing is making things better for working people than his plans would by a mile. We are putting in more to support people with their energy costs than he would with…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe facts are, as the International Monetary Fund has said, that the UK came out of covid faster than anybody else. That is why we had the fastest growth in the G7 last year. That…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsAs I have just explained to the House, and will repeat once more, this Government and our Chancellor cut taxes on working people. The national insurance contribution went down by…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is entirely right: those are the issues on which people will be voting. As I said, they will be voting for better value, better services and lower council tax, and…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsOf course it is important to do everything we can to help families in a tough time. That is why we have massively increased the funds available to local councils to support…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsOf course, I want to renew my apologies and sympathies to all those who lost loved ones during the pandemic—people who lost loved ones in care homes. I want to remind the House of…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is no disrespect to those who have not been sanctioned when I say that all those 287 should regard it as a badge of honour. What we will do is keep up our robust and principled…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman very much. There is clearly an economic cost to the protocol. That is also now turning into a political problem, and an imbalance in sentiment about it.…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a fantastic champion for Mansfield and, indeed, the wider area. I am delighted that Mansfield was awarded £12 million as part of the towns fund. I cannot endorse…27 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsOf course sexual harassment is intolerable, and it is quite right that Members should now have a procedure whereby they can bring it to the attention of the House authorities. I…27 Apr 2022HANSARDIntelligence and Security Committee: Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism ReportThe Intelligence and Security Committee will publish its report on extreme right-wing terrorism in due course. [HCWS778]21 Apr 2022