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HANSARDEngagementsQuite right—Conservative councils fix four times more potholes, recycle twice as much, and charge less.20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsAll I can say is that I am delighted that the hon. Lady is a reader of The Daily Telegraph . What she needs to do is keep going to the end of the article. That is my advice to her.20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsIf the right hon. and learned Gentleman wants to join the Conservative party and come and listen to the meetings of the Conservative party, he is welcome to do it, but, as I say,…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsSorry, Mr Speaker, but I do not know what the question is, because the hon. Gentleman has withdrawn it. The answer is that we are going to get on with the job, and it would be…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI was slightly taken aback for the Government to be criticised over the policy that we have devised to end the deaths at sea in the channel as a result of cruel criminal gangs. I…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. He is a great champion for rural Cumbria and for bus services. He is right that Cumbria got another £1.5 million for buses. We want to put more into…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsOn my own fixed penalty notice, I have been transparent with the House—and will be—and I have apologised. On the rest of it, I really think, as I have said before, that the House…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend has raised this issue before and I know how infuriating it is for his constituents. That is why the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has…20 Apr 2022HANSARDKettering General Hospital RedevelopmentYes; my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary has told me that he has met those individuals before and he is happy to meet them again.20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsSorry, Mr Speaker. When are the Scottish people going to hear an ounce of sense from the Scottish nationalist—20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhen are the Scottish people going to hear—20 Apr 2022HANSARDKettering General Hospital RedevelopmentIt is well known that the rules of this House demand that we tell the truth in this House, and that is what we all try to do.20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend very much for campaigning on this issue, which I know attracts support across the House. I will certainly take personal charge of the matter and make…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend very much, and I think everybody will want to urge the Russian state to treat his constituent humanely and compassionately, because in my view,…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is a part of the solution. It is something that, as I said just now, was advocated in 2004 by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett, a Blairite Home Secretary. It is now…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am sad to say that I think a lot of people made money out of covid in a way that perhaps they should not have done. We deplore that and we are trying to recoup as much as we…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI know why they want me gone. It is because we are going to get on and show that this Conservative Government are going to deliver for the British people—fixing our cost of living…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a fantastic champion for Watford. I know, because I have been to see him several times, that he has been campaigning to get this hospital in Watford ever since…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsI understand the feelings of the hon. Lady’s constituents and I continue to express my apologies for the FPN that I received, but the Government will get on with tackling the…20 Apr 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. and learned Friend makes an incredibly important point. The savagery that the Russians are unleashing on Ukraine knows no limits and is clearly authorised from the…20 Apr 2022