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HANSARDUkraineThe hon. Gentleman is completely right. It is an underestimated point in our favour that I do not believe, in the end, that Russia wants the kind of isolation that would ensue. Of…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineMy right hon. Friend is completely right that we have the potential—the potential—to do very serious economic damage to Russia. What we have to make sure of, as everybody said on…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his very important point. I think actually we are making a huge amount of progress. I want to thank my right hon. Friends the Foreign…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineOf course we will do what we can to provide economic support in the event of a disaster, but the most important thing we can do now is to try to prevent that disaster from…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineIf we look at what is happening, the conversation I had last night was with European partners comprising the vast bulk of defence spending in the west; we work very closely with…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineI thank the hon. Gentleman for his thoughtful argument. As I have said, we already have Magnitsky sanctions in place on the Russian regime, sanctions in response to the seizure of…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineYes. The National Cyber Security Centre is indeed offering help to Ukraine for precisely that purpose. Russian cyber-attacks, as the House knows, can be extremely damaging and we…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineI thank the right hon. Gentleman. By the way, I think that much of the work he did on renewables when he was in office was prescient and valuable for this country, and it has put…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineMy right hon. Friend is completely right. That is why we brought in measures to protect our national security and our critical national infrastructure, and to ensure that we are…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineMy hon. Friend is making a valuable point, because we have seen only recently how refugees from Belarus have been used as tools of political warfare. We have to be conscious of…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineYes, the UK has been at this for a long time now. It was an important signal, which I hope my hon. Friend will take back to his constituents, that we stuck up for Ukrainian rights…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineThe hon. Lady is completely right. In addition to the unexplained wealth orders and the crackdown on tax evasion, we want a register of beneficial interests. I can tell her that…25 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraineMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. The crisis around Ukraine will be replayed across the whole map of eastern Europe if we fail now, and if we do not stand up to Putin. She…25 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe right hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point. The data I have is that we are up to 94.7% of NHS staff who have been vaccinated. That is a great improvement, but we…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for that excellent summary of what I was trying to say in response to the hon. Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting). It would have been a great thing—a…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am proud of all the work that we have done together with the authorities in Northern Ireland to ensure that we look after business, such as the furlough scheme and all the loans…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI must just repeat that that is not what I said in my statement, but I do think this is the right, balanced and proportionate approach. I notice that measures are also being…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend is completely right to draw attention to those who are living with conditions that make them particularly vulnerable. That is why it is so important that, among all…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman very much and direct him to exactly what I said earlier, which I am sure he listened to.19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYou bet.19 Jan 2022