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HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitWe support water resilience projects around the world, as part of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and had a good discussion on the issue of water resilience and…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitNow. We are just going to keep going. This is a rolling series of negotiations. We are ringing people up the whole time. COP is in full flow at the moment.03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitWhat I can tell the hon. Lady is that we continue to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels of all kinds, and we will be going for complete net zero in our power production by…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitI think what President Xi Jinping would say is that China keeps its promises. We will have to hope that that is true. I think the people of the world will want to hold all of us,…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitI thank the hon. Gentleman. He has raised this issue with me several times. I will see what I can do to oblige him. This is something that I do want to try to fix, but it is…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitMy right hon. Friend knows a great deal about this issue, and he is right to draw attention to article 6 and the carbon credit issue. That is something on which our negotiators…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitI want to thank the right hon. Gentleman, because his political record shows that he has done a huge amount of good in this area. That is the truth of the matter, and I thank him…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitVery largely.03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitFirst, on climate finance for the world, the right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point, because it is essential that the developed world supports the developing world on the path…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitYes, and that is why we still have among the lowest corporation taxes in the OECD, in spite of the measures that we have been obliged to take because of the pandemic. That is why…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitThe right hon. Lady asks me to go for the detail, but having said some kind things about her approach just now, after listening to that I think I prefer the forensic—or the…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement about the G20 summit in Rome and update the House on COP26 in Glasgow. Almost 30 years ago, the world acknowledged the…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitWhat we are doing is putting hard cash into supporting countries around the world. The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point about the SDRs. We are looking at that as well, but…03 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am sure that my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary will do his utmost, in the course of the coming decisions, to oblige my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Ruth…03 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman for the campaign that he has been running for Jagtar Singh for a long time. I say to him that the closeness of our relationship with India in no way…03 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI certainly do agree with my hon. Friend, who is an old friend of mine; I have worked closely with him on London issues for many years. I know where Labour’s instincts are. It…03 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhat we have done with universal credit is abolish the old system, which unfairly taxed people on universal credit, and help people with a £1 billion tax cut. What we on this side…03 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for his question on an issue that he knows a great deal about. This is a case of making it clear to the Iranians that there is an opportunity for them…03 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe are investing in 48 new hospitals and rebuilds. What is the hon. Lady’s job, frankly, is to vote for £36 billion of investment in the NHS, which will allow us to take our…03 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, I certainly agree with that. It was a point that I raised recently with the Labour Mayor of London. We agreed on many things—he was very much out of line with the current…03 Nov 2021