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HANSARDEngagementsThis is a tragic case, and the hon. Lady is right to raise it. We have allocated £36 million to improve safeguarding and decision making in cases like this, including through the…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsThat was rude. In response to my hon. Friend, the short answer is yes and yes.05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend is certainly right that we are going to be reducing the involvement of Huawei below the 35% market cap, but he is also right in his general vision, which is…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do not think anybody listening to my speech on Monday could have mistaken it for having anything but the most passionate internationalist, globalist, open, outward-looking…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe are putting record investment in the NHS—£33.9 billion—and a total of £12 billion is now going into mental healthcare. That is a record sum.05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, we will of course do nothing either to endanger our critical national security infra- structure or to prejudice co-operation with Five Eyes partners, as my right hon. Friend…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe have instituted NHS visas in order to attract talent from around the world, but I remind the hon. Lady, who I think speaks for a Welsh seat, that that is a devolved matter for…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsI agree passionately with my hon. Friend and congratulate him on all he has done to campaign for the redevelopment of Queen’s Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, and of…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt was this Government and my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary who legalised medicinal cannabis, and I undertake that he will certainly be happy to meet the hon. Member’s…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis Government are showing world leadership in tackling climate change, and we are going to have a fantastic summit at Glasgow and I look forward to it very much. The right hon.…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes indeed, and that is why—thanks partly to my hon. Friend’s urgings and his campaign—we have given the combined mayoral authority in Bolton £300 million under the transforming…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Government are passionate about buses. I assure my hon. Friend that we will massively improve our bus network, in the Rother Valley above all, and I thank him for his lobbying.05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a distinguished lawyer and she is right to stick up for the immense value of our legal system. We must protect judicial review. It is a vital part of our system,…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsAbsolutely, and that is why we are putting £48 billion into improving our railways as part of the infrastructure revolution. We should never forget that that lot over there would…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsI think the whole House will understand that the people of this country will think it right to send back foreign national offenders.05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, and I thank my hon. Friend and his family for everything that they do to encourage ex-offenders into work. I will indeed take up that suggestion with my right hon. Friend the…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsThat is exactly why this Government are investing a record £14 billion more in education, raising funding for primary schools to £4,000 per head and £5,000 per head for every…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman for the point he raises. We do need to improve our bus services across the whole country and that is why we are investing another £250 million…05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. That is why we have given another £165 million to extend the troubled families programme this year.05 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsI think it is very odd that the right hon. Gentleman should denounce this country’s wish to have trade deals around the world when, as I understand it, their proposal is to try to…05 Feb 2020