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HANSARD UkraineThe hon. Lady raises a very important point. What we are seeing now, tragically, as I am sure the House knows, is people moving west out of Kyiv, with columns of traffic, and…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineYes; I thank my hon. Friend for all the work she has done on that issue. It is something that the UK Government have campaigned on for a long time and have indeed raised, very…24 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, of course my hon. Friend is right. That is why we are making record investments in the NHS and in schools and roads—as we can, thanks to the strong growth in our economy. I…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI do not think any Government could conceivably be doing more to root out corrupt Russian money, and that is what we are going to do. We can be proud of what we have already done…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe whole of Government is engaged in that campaign. To that end, we have expanded free school meals for five to seven-year-olds, which helps 1.3 million children, we have boosted…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI totally share the hon. Gentleman’s feelings about his constituents and the tragic loss in the family concerned. We must crack down more on knife crime. That is one of the…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is completely right in what he says about the Severn and the violence of the flooding in the Severn area, which I have seen for myself several times. There are…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes. As a cyclist, I share my hon. Friend’s passion on this issue. We do need to crack down on speeding, which plays a role in excessive deaths on our roads. The Department for…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for everything she does to champion steel. She is right that it is of strategic importance for our country; we must look at ways we can help the steel…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much for what he says about people in East Sussex. I know how tough it is for people who have been short of power for days on end, and it is no…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsThat was a brilliant, powerful question with which I think the whole House assented. Would it not have been more powerful if it had come from the leader of the Scottish National…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman was right to come to me then—I have always enjoyed talking to him, as I have told him many times—and he is right on the issue. We do need to stop corrupt…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI just think it is very important for the House to understand that we do not raise money from Russian oligarchs. People who give money to this— [Interruption.] We raise money from…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI can announce to the House that in the light of the increasingly threatening behaviour from Russia, and in line with our previous support, the UK will shortly be providing a…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe whole House would agree, I hope, that it is quite a thing to sanction parliamentarians, and that is what we are doing, and not only that—just in the past couple of days, we…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, I thank my hon. Friend, who is a great champion for Warrington. Warrington has secured £20 million for new zero-emission buses. I am delighted to say—this is a statistic that…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhen I was Mayor of London I always yearned to be in a position to put that through Parliament, and now I am. I am very grateful to my hon. Friend and we will ensure we give…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am only too happy—thrilled—to visit my hon. Friend in Meriden at any time.23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am always happy to meet my hon. Friend—and I congratulate him on his recent elevation—but I must say that the Environment Agency faces many challenges and does an outstanding…23 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Oral Statement on Ukraine: ClarificationFurther to my answer to the right hon. Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) during my oral statement on Ukraine, it is the position that oligarchs at the heart of Putin’s…23 Feb 2022