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HANSARDEngagementsWe of course stand shoulder to shoulder with the Government of Ashraf Ghani, and my hon. Friend is right, by the way, in what she says about women in Afghanistan. It is one of the…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI loathe bullying, but I am not taking any lessons from a party that has presided over systematic bullying and discrimination against those who stick up for the Jewish community…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend the Health Secretary has just told me—passing the ball swiftly down the line—that, yes, my hon. Friend’s A&E is certainly staying open, and I thank her for…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for the excellent co-operation that Scotland and, indeed, all the devolved Administrations have given in preparing the battle plan. Yes, really to…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI will indeed. Today I will chair the first ever Cabinet Committee on Climate Change, in recognition of this Government’s revolutionary commitments to cut to net zero by 2050—one…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is entirely right. We are of course monitoring the situation and are prepared to support individuals, businesses and the economy to maintain economic confidence,…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe are not at that stage, or anything like that stage, yet. The right hon. Gentleman knows that our police forces are well able to cope with all types of eventualities and have…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is now two years to the day since a chemical weapon was deployed by Russian military intelligence on the streets of Salisbury. All our thoughts remain with those affected and…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI can indeed. That is why we are supporting the Ashington to Blyth to Tyne rail line—the start of our £500 million investment in connecting towns whose stations were closed during…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis country, as my hon. Friend knows, leads the world in battery technology. It is a wonderful thing that Cornwall indeed boasts extensive resources of lithium, and we mean to…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsAgain, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the spirit in which he asks the question. He will have seen from my earlier answer that what we are indeed doing is advancing the day,…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend very much for raising what sounds like an appalling case, and I am sure the whole House will join me in expressing our deepest sympathies to Tom’s…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to raise the issue of stabbings and violent crime, which I agree with her are too high and must come down. That is one of the reasons why we are…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have no difficulty at all making such an undertaking, because it is very clear from the protocol that unfettered access for Northern Ireland will continue.04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am happy to study the particular case that the hon. Gentleman raises. Universal credit is available from day one— [ Interruption ] —and I stick firmly to my belief that the best…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman is raising a very important point. We are, of course, very much aware of the issues faced by the self-employed and those on zero-hours contracts. I should…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs the right hon. Gentleman knows, this Government have put record funding into the NHS and we have pledged that we will give it everything that it needs to cope with the crisis.…04 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsThese are not promises: these are what we have already done. It is thanks to Conservative action on climate change that we have reduced CO 2 output by 43% on 1990 levels since…26 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe answer to her question, in a word, is no.26 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am of course very happy indeed to look at that case and for us to do whatever we can to help with that individual case, but I must say to the hon. Lady that, in the round,…26 Feb 2020