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HANSARDEngagementsThe whole House will want to pay tribute to the police and all the emergency services for their brave response to the terrorist incident in Streatham on Sunday. That appalling…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 2020HANSARDEngagementsIf we look at what the Government are achieving and already have achieved on climate change, it is quite phenomenal. The right hon. Gentleman will know that last year was the…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 2020HANSARDEngagementsI can give my hon. Friend that assurance. With better education, better infrastructure and high technology, we will unite and level up this country and deliver, as he is doing for…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 2020HANSARDDepartment for Exiting the European Union: ClosureI am making this statement to confirm that the Department for Exiting the European Union closed on 31 January. Those of its functions which are still required have been…03 Feb 2020HANSARDUK/EU RelationsThis statement sets out the Government’s proposed approach to the negotiations with the EU about our future relationship. Further details on this and other trade negotiations will…03 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am certainly happy to look at the proposals if the hon. Lady wishes to bring them forward to the House.29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsI certainly share the right hon. Lady’s general sentiment that it is time for the whole country to come together. I think from memory that Wales voted to leave the EU, and it is…29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsI reassure hon. Friends and Members across the Chamber, of whatever persuasion they may be regarding HS2, that there will be an announcement and decision very shortly.29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsAs the hon. Gentleman knows, this Government have already instituted new measures to ensure that people of talent, and who can contribute to this economy, can come without let or…29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend has personally raised the issue with me before, and I am sure that his constituents will congratulate him on sticking up for their interests in the way that he…29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Member is right to raise the point, but the number of GPs is already going up, and as I have just told the House, we are recruiting 6,000 more.29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes. Not only that, but we can do it in such a way as to continue this country’s reduction in hydrocarbon emissions.29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am very happy to meet my hon. Friend any time.29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue, and I can tell him that we are indeed getting on with that job. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health says that he…29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe obviously have every sympathy for innocent victims of violence in Northern Ireland. We have been consistently clear about the principle that people must have sustained injuries…29 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsNothing in withdrawal from the EU stops UK students being able to pursue their hopes, their dreams around the whole of the European Union, and we will ensure that that is the case.29 Jan 2020