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HANSARDEngagementsIt is perfectly true that I am grateful for the ability to speak my mind, which I never really lost, but what I am focusing on is continuing the government of the country. As I…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. and learned Gentleman is completely wrong. I have been listening very carefully, and all the commitments I have heard are very clear. Whoever is elected will…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am proud of the investment this country attracts from around the world. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about people from offshore investing in the UK, and I am…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI feel a real twinge that this may be virtually the last time that I will have the opportunity to answer a question from the right hon. Gentleman— whether it is because he is…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat is actually happening in this country is that we are using the fiscal firepower that we have built up to cut taxes for working people and cut taxes for those on low…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is thanks to the massive exertions of this Government in levelling up, with the £650 billion investment in infrastructure, that we have a new railway station in Cheadle. I know…13 Jul 2022HANSARDWest Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals Trust: New Acute HospitalI am delighted that there will be a new hospital scheme in this area. I am told the local hospital trust has considered a full range of options and that it considers that new…13 Jul 2022HANSARDWest Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals Trust: New Acute HospitalI can tell my hon. Friend that I will ensure he gets a meeting with the relevant Minister to discuss his proposals.13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsAs I understand it, the people of the SNP are currently deciding what to do with the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford). Heaven forfend that they should…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI know from my own experience of running the city the anguish that that particular tragedy caused and the deep feeling that surrounds it, and I thank my hon. Friend for raising…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank you for your guidance, Mr Speaker. I think we can safely say how much we sympathise with the victim and her family. Knife crime is a scourge, and I believe there are many…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his campaign. Our thoughts are of course with the friends and family of Pitchfork’s victims, Lynda and Dawn. The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsAs I continually advise the members of the Scottish National party—or nationalist party, I should say—they should look at what is happening to educational standards in Scotland,…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is possibly fair to say that I am responsible for building more river crossings and bridges than anybody else in this House, including the Suggitts Lane crossing, which I…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsOf course the Labour Government in Wales is responsible for schools, but what we have been doing is not only increasing the living wage by £1,000 and providing the £37…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman talks about staffing levels: the NHS now has a record number of people working in it, with 10,900 more nurses this year than there were last year and 6,000 more…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsAs I mentioned earlier, we are engaged in a massive programme of improvements and building and rebuilding in our NHS estate. With great respect to my hon. Friend, he is going to…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsMay I say to the hon. Gentleman that after three years of listening to this delirium of monotony from the Scottish nationalists, I really think they need to change the record?…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI know the problem of which my hon. Friend speaks very well. There is no single solution to tackling surface water flooding, but she is absolutely right in wanting to put more…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for what he is doing to campaign for tougher sentences and against knife crime in Milton Keynes. As a result of what the Conservatives have done, adults who…06 Jul 2022