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HANSARDEngagementsNo, 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 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 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 2022HANSARDOrganisation for Security and Co-operation in EuropeMy right hon. Friend the Member for Maldon (Mr Whittingdale) has been appointed as a full representative of the United Kingdom delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe are investing in education up and down the country. I am delighted that Burnley College was successful in its proposal to become an institute of technology, and that Burnley is…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his fantastic championing of Stoke-on-Trent. I also thank him for volunteering to serve as a teacher again during the pandemic—a wonderful thing to do.…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman. I want to offer my condolences to his constituent who wrote to him, and just to remind him of what I said earlier. With the greatest respect to…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 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 refer to the answer I gave earlier.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 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman from the SNP, and I repeat the point I made earlier: I do not think that he should pre-empt or anticipate the inquiry.12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI certainly will, and I join my hon. Friend in thanking the wonderful volunteers. I will do what I can to assist her in protecting that beautiful green space.12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI believe the hon. Member does a serious injustice to the efforts of local councils up and down the country to look after people coming from Afghanistan and I think he does an…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a great champion for Eastleigh. As I told the House earlier, further details of the competition to identify the new Great British Railways headquarters will be…12 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsOne of the first things that I did when I became Prime Minister was to uprate local housing allowance so that people on social rent would be able to afford where they live more…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 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes indeed, and I thank my hon. Friend for that. It is notable that the Opposition do not like to dwell on these points, but it is an astonishing fact that we have 420,000 more…12 Jan 2022HANSARDInvestigatory Powers Commissioner: Annual ReportI have today laid before both Houses a copy of the annual report of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, the right hon. Sir Brian Leveson. Overall, this report demonstrates that…06 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThat sums up all people need to know about the Labour party. It instinctively reaches for measures to lock down the UK economy and do huge damage. We are taking a balanced and…05 Jan 2022