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HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend; she is campaigning on a very important issue. Too often, we find that our armed forces fail to provide the wonderful women in our armed forces with the…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am tempted to invite the hon. Gentleman to wait and see what we do for rail funding tomorrow, but I will certainly look at what he had to say about Northwich station with keen…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much, and she has much relevant experience from her work for Save the Children in Greece. Our only credible way of fixing this is with our new plan for…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for bringing this to my attention. I will certainly make sure that we get a proper meeting with the representatives of the nuclear veterans that she…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman is a passionate campaigner in this area. One way or another—I will get back to him on the exact way—we will legislate to allow parents of children in neonatal…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is absolutely right that the River Tyne is a massive economic asset for the whole of the north-east. It has suffered from historic contamination, but we are going to…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsFirst of all, I want to thank GPs for everything they are doing, particularly during the booster roll-out. As well as recruiting as many GPs as we can, we have 10,000 more nurses…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI appreciate that ambulance crews and ambulance services are doing an amazing job, particularly at this time of year, and I thank them for what they are doing. We are supporting…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagements—but I will look at it very carefully. I am sure there is an excellent case in there somewhere.17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI will not comment on the missing £600,000 from the Scottish National party’s accounts, but what I will say, in all sincerity and heeding what you said earlier, Mr Speaker, is…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the humble crofter, as the right hon. Gentleman refers to himself, for his question. What I think we can do is pursue a cross-party approach, based on the report of the…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his campaign against local Labour government overtaxing and delivering inadequate services. The local boundary commission will look at the boundary…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I referred to the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s “Mishconduct”, because that is what he is guilty of.17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsIt is plain from listening to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that he seeks to criticise this Government while refusing to explain his own position. You have ruled on that,…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsAnd he talks about— [ Interruption. ]17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI have called for, as you know Mr Speaker, and as you have called for, a cross-party approach to this. What I think we need to do is work together on the basis of the independent…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am afraid that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is in danger of getting hoist by his own petard. He needs to wait and see what we announce tomorrow, because I think he will…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsHe should wait and see what is going to be announced tomorrow, because we will produce a fantastic integrated rail plan— [ Interruption. ] I am not going to spoil it for them—why…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for what she does to represent her hospital, and I thank the NHS staff for the amazing work that they are doing. We are supporting them, as she knows,…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI will study his proposals with care when the Opposition parties commit to stop taking funds from the unions in order to control their politics.17 Nov 2021