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HANSARDEngagementsThe 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 2022HANSARDEngagementsI want to be clear. What I want to say, and I say it again, is that I regret the way the appointment happened. I was clear with the House about what I knew at the time, but I want…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI notice that crime has spiked since the previous Mayor of London, and it is the Labour party that voted against stop and search and against increased funding for the police. As…06 Jul 2022HANSARDPrime MinisterWe have got lower unemployment than France, Germany, Italy or Canada. As I have said, we have the highest number of people in payroll jobs—620,000 more—since records began. The…06 Jul 2022HANSARDPrime MinisterWe have got lower unemployment than France, Germany, Italy or Canada. As I have said, we have the highest number of people in payroll jobs—620,000 more—since records began. The…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am not going to trivialise what happened. [ Interruption. ] Yes, Mr Speaker, because very serious complaints have been raised against the right hon. Member for Tamworth and they…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsLook, the right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about— [ Interruption. ] He should hear what his lot say about him. He talks about integrity; he wanted to install the right hon.…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 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much for what he is doing to host young Ukrainians. I thank everybody in this House who is looking after Ukrainians—a lot of people are doing that. I…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think that the whole House will have observed the brilliant performance on the radio this morning by the new Chancellor of the Exchequer—that is no disrespect to the former…06 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement about the NATO, G7 and Commonwealth summits, held in Madrid, Schloss Elmau and Kigali respectively. In the space of seven…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsI thank my right hon. Friend particularly for his point about grain exports. As he knows, the work is being led by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The UK is doing a huge…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsThe right hon. Gentleman should look more carefully at what the G7 produced in terms of the plan to cap prices for oil and gas and particularly to try to stop Putin profiteering,…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsThe right hon. Gentleman is completely right: the Turks are absolutely indispensable to solving this. They are doing their very best and I thank President Erdoğan for all the…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsMy right hon. Friend has campaigned on this issue for years. I think we will have to spend more. Logically, Mr Speaker, if you protract the commitments that we are making under…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsAs the hon. Gentleman knows, the UK led the way in Europe in supplying weaponry to Ukraine, and the next generation light anti-tank weapons were of great importance. When it comes…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsIt is a straightforward prediction based on what we are currently committed to spending under the AUKUS and future combat air system programmes. They are gigantic commitments,…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsFirst, may I thank my hon. Friend very much for everything he did as envoy for freedom of religion or belief? It is at least partly thanks to his energy and efforts that we have a…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsThe hon. Gentleman is right that we have to keep tightening the noose the whole time. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill will help. It will give us new powers to…04 Jul 2022