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HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I can tell my hon. Friend that Natural England is considering an extension of the Chilterns area of outstanding natural beauty, and I am sure that it will listen to…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhat I can tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman is that all guidance was followed completely in No. 10. May I recommend that he does the same with his own Christmas party,…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for all the support that he gives to Grantham and Stamford. I can tell him that Small Business Saturday is receiving huge support from the Government. We…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am afraid that she has completely failed to look at what Sir Peter Hendy set out in his Union connectivity review. It is a fantastic agenda for change and improvement,…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman for the powerful point that he has just made. Even though 32 years have passed since that devastating tragedy, I know that the wounds remain very raw in…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsFrankly, I cannot really improve on the verdict of my friend Fabian Picardo, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar: Gibraltar is British, British, British and will remain so. By the…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the police officers in the west midlands, and I thank the hon. Lady for drawing attention to what we are doing to increase the number of police officers— [ Interruption. ]…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsIf I did not hear it, he was drowned out by his supporters. We need to work together—the Government of the UK working with the Scottish authorities—to help those people get their…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsThis morning I had meetings with— [ Interruption. ]24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. [ Interruption. ] Thank you very much. Immediately following Prime Minister’s questions,…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsNo, it is not complicated, because what we are doing is disregarding your home as part of the assets that we calculate. If you go down to £100,000, that is the beginning of where…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am going to have a third go at trying to clear this up in the befuddled mind of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, because it is important. The fact is that the Labour party…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI might ask the right hon. Gentleman what on earth he thinks he is doing, talking about party political issues when all that the people of Scotland want to hear is what on earth…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, we will continue to fund some BTECs where there is a clear need for them, but I must stress that we have to close the gap between the things that people study and the needs…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsNot only are we powering past coal towards the ending of fossil fuel reliance in our energy generation by 2024, which is absolutely stunning, and we are ahead of countries…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady for raising FareShare and I thank it for what it is doing to support people this winter, and indeed at all times. My experience is that businesses do an…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for everything she does for steel and for Scunthorpe. I can tell her that I do believe British steel has suffered, as a result of decisions taken years and…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman is completely right, which is why we are going to introduce legislation in this Parliament to ban the import of hunting trophies and to deliver the change…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am glad the hon. Gentleman asks that question, because I can tell him and the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford) that we will be including support for…24 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much for his question and I will do my utmost—he has invited everybody, and I hope that a lot of people will be going to Lincoln. I am sure that my…24 Nov 2021