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HANSARDEngagementsI have already said that I regret very much that the right hon. Member for Tamworth continued to hold office after the complaint was made against him in the Foreign Office. It was…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThat individual, the right hon. Member for Tamworth (Christopher Pincher), no longer has the Conservative Whip. He no longer has a job. As soon as I was made aware of the…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhen times are tough and when the country faces pressures on the economy and pressures on budgets, and when we have the biggest war in Europe for 80 years, that is exactly the…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe difference between— [ Interruption. ]06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe difference between this Government and that Opposition is that we have a plan and they do not, and we are getting on with it. They want to focus on this type of issue; we are…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsClearly, if there were circumstances in which I felt it was impossible for the Government to go on and discharge the mandate that we have been given, or if I felt, for instance,…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsActually, whenever I look around the United Kingdom—I had a great talk with Mark Drakeford the other day, as well as talking to Nicola Sturgeon—I see the bonds of our Union being…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a great champion for Meon Valley, and I will ensure that she has a meeting with the Minister for levelling up at the earliest opportunity.06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the passion with which he advocates for investment in BritishVolt. I share his enthusiasm, and I want to thank my hon. Friend the Member for…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend is completely right. There are 25 million tonnes of wheat that are basically being held hostage by Putin. That is the equivalent to the annual consumption of…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsActually, if the hon. Gentleman looks at what we have promised and what we have delivered, we said we would get 20,000 police out on the streets, and we already have 13,500 more;…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThere is a very simple reason why they want me out, and that is because they know that otherwise we will get on with delivering our mandate and win another general election. That…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend very much for the point he has made again, but I just could not disagree with him more. Look at what the Government are doing today. We are cutting…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman very much for the very valuable point he has raised, and we will make sure that families are able to cross over from one scheme to another, to simplify…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsToday is a big day— [Interruption] — as we implement the biggest tax cut for a decade, increasing national insurance thresholds to make tax lower and the tax burden easier. These…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much for all the work that he has done and continues to do for veterans. The Bill will give veterans the certainty that they deserve. We are fulfilling…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsActually, I was just jotting down some notes about the right hon. Gentleman’s question, which I thought was excellent when he was talking about the economy, because that is the…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI noticed that the right hon. Gentleman’s remark that the Labour party had given up on returning to the European Union was not greeted with rapture by the Opposition. That was…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat I can tell the hon. Gentleman is this. Rather than talking about fantasy infrastructure, I can tell him about real infrastructure. We are helping to unite and level up the…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much. He has campaigned on this issue for some time, and I will ensure that he has a meeting with the relevant Minister to discuss the development in…06 Jul 2022