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HANSARDEngagementsWe will certainly be legislating to expand the dormant assets scheme to include new financial assets, which would unlock an estimated £880 million. We will be considering how to…19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat we are doing is offering financial and technical support to businesses, which are responding magnificently. As we come out of the pandemic, as I said to the House earlier, we…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI have the highest respect for the media judgment of my hon. Friend. Though I understand some of his strictures about the BBC, I would also say that it is a great national…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his campaign. I believe that we should tackle microplastic pollution, and I am glad that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsNo, Mr Speaker, because I immediately said in my answer to the question that of course we have to be concerned about inflation at all times. What I said, I think on TV, was that…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising the case with me. I will organise a meeting for him with the relevant Minister as soon as possible to establish what we can do to help Grant.12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI just want to repeat: I know it is the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s objective and he is paid to try to remove me from office—I appreciate that and I accept that—but may I…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, we are certainly looking at reducing the isolation period, and we hope to bring you more about that, Mr Speaker, as fast as possible. We will certainly look at all MACA…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI can only repeat what I have said: I understand the hon. Gentleman’s feelings about the effect of this pandemic on the country, and I certainly grieve for everybody who has died…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI know that the whole House will want to join me in paying tribute to Jack Dromey. His working life was devoted to his trade union members and, in recent years, to his…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI refer to the answer I gave earlier.12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. I respect the point he is making, but I must say I disagree. I would ask him to wait and see what the inquiry says. I will be…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI appreciate the point that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is making about the event that I attended. I want to repeat that I thought it was a work event. I regret very much…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI heard the testimony of the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and I echo the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s sentiments. It was deeply moving; nobody who heard that…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is up to the right hon. and learned Gentleman to choose how he conducts himself in this place, and he is wrong— [ Interruption. ] He is wrong. I say to him that he is wrong in…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am agog. I long to come to see these extraordinary additions to the cultural heritage of Rutland. I thank my hon. Friend for drawing it to my attention, and I look forward to…12 Jan 2022HANSARDParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: UK DelegationThe hon. Member for Broadland (Jerome Mayhew) has been appointed as a full member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The hon.…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. I am sorry about the case that he raises. Health of course is a devolved matter, but I thank our NHS colleagues across the whole of the…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is right that one of the disasters of the Labour Administration was that, over 13 years, they allowed a total collapse in our nuclear power, which is one of the…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe will do everything we can to support people throughout the recovery from the pandemic, we will support disabled people and we will continue to increase our support for families…12 Jan 2022