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HANSARDEngagementsFirst, the right hon. Gentleman mentions the living wage. This is the party and Government who instituted the living wage and have just increased it by a massive amount. Secondly,…20 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am sure there is a legal term for imputing to me a policy that I have not yet announced, but my hon. Friend is right to be concerned about the buying up of UK technology now by…20 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsAll I can say is, no, I will not, and I think that the Secretary of State for Scotland does an admirable job.20 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsPerhaps I can just say that I continue to be very happy with the level of co-operation, in spite of what we sometimes hear in this Chamber, between the Governments of all four…20 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman is making an excellent point. If he could send me details, we will be very happy to take up the case that he describes.13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsOn the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s earlier point about not learning from other countries—nothing could be further from the truth. We are watching intently what is happening…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. He actually nabbed me behind the Speaker’s Chair after he last put it to me. I can tell him that we estimate that 1.3 million…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much, and I agree with him, but whatever the defects of the Labour Government in Wales, my experience is that we have been working very well together…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsIndeed, the message throughout the country is, of course, that you should stay at home if you can, unless the specific circumstances that we have outlined apply. But I must say…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs my right hon. Friend knows, it is this Government’s ambition to end rough sleeping by 2024. It is great to see the progress that has been made even in this very difficult…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for what he does to champion the environment and the cause of reducing CO 2 emissions. Alas, we have had to postpone the COP26 summit that was to have…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, and to encourage the take-up of electric vehicles, we are putting a further £1 billion into EV infrastructure across the country to prevent range anxiety for those who use…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsYesterday was International Nurses’ Day and I know that the whole House would want to thank the nurses, and also the care staff and key workers, for their tireless work in…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman raises a point about London buses that is quite right, and I do not want to see crowding on mass-transit public transport in our capital or anywhere else.…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe coronavirus is an appalling disease which afflicts some groups far more than others—I think the whole country understands that—in particular the elderly, and the right hon.…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsAll Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies advice is published in due course, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows. Let me be absolutely clear with the House that…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsI admire the right hon. Gentleman’s brilliant attempt to take the credit from my right hon. Friend the Chancellor for his extension of the coronavirus job retention scheme, which…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs I have said, one of the most remarkable things about this crisis has been the way that the whole country has come together to deal with it. There has been a spirit of unity and…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. I think I understood very clearly what she was saying. It is obvious from the data that coronavirus, as I said earlier, is falling disproportionately on…13 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have a picture at home of myself and William Hague aboard the Llangollen steam railway, I am proud to say. I congratulate the group on what they are doing to raise funds. I have…13 May 2020