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HANSARDAUKUSThe Five Eyes partnership is also of huge importance. We share intelligence on a very, very free basis with our Five Eyes friends, but cyber, AI and so on will now be progressed…16 Sept 2021HANSARDAUKUSYes. I will indeed be seeing Mohamed bin Zayed very shortly—in fact, just after I leave the House today. I think I am right in saying—my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary…16 Sept 2021HANSARDAUKUSIt is. I am sure that that will be on the agenda.16 Sept 2021HANSARDAUKUSWhat this does is allow the three countries that share very close perspectives on human rights, the rule of law, free trade and international shipping to come together and, above…16 Sept 2021HANSARDAUKUSYes, of course, although I remind the House that the carrier strike group is out there expressing British influence—hard power and soft power—8,000 miles away, which is something…16 Sept 2021HANSARDAUKUSI think most commonsensical people will welcome the arrival of jobs across the whole of the United Kingdom, particularly in Scotland. By the way, the Type 26 frigate programme,…16 Sept 2021HANSARDAUKUSMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. AUKUS is a big, big leap forward in terms of trust—agreeing to share nuclear propulsion systems is a giant step—but what this means now is that…16 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsFirst, I want to say how sad I am to hear about the hon. Gentleman’s constituent Lynda. I think her experiences have been shared by literally millions of people in this country…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsI know that the whole House will want to join me in congratulating Emma Raducanu, Joe Salisbury, Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid on their victories in the US Open. They have made the…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for her kind words. On her substantive point, she is entirely right to raise the issues investigated by Baroness Cumberlege. We have given the report…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am sure that my hon. Friend speaks for millions and millions of people up and down this country who abhor the fur trade and do not want to wear fur. Obviously, we have banned…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am sorry that we have not yet found time to discuss this matter properly, person to person. The Government are very much interested in what my hon. Friend says about geothermal…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank my hon. Friend for raising this matter; I know he has campaigned on that issue. The review is going ahead and we will look at what to do once it has been completed,…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind invitation. I look forward to taking it up. What we need is a suitable payload to send into space, and I think the hon. Gentleman would do…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right in what he says about the importance of buying British and eating British. Our food is the best in the world. He is also right to address…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady raises an important point. When the Government came into office, a key part of the extra £14 billion that we put into education was for investment in special…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman. I agree with him that it is very important that the institutions of Northern Ireland should be robust and should continue, but I also think that a…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am very grateful for the vigilance of my hon. Friend about the matter of ID cards. I can tell him that we have absolutely no plans to bring them in, but I will watch the…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsIt is absolutely ridiculous that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should attack the Government over salaries for nurses when we have put them up by 3% on top of the 12.8% rise…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend the Business Secretary is working with GKN to do whatever we can, but I believe that the future of the UK automotive sector is incredibly bright. That is…15 Sept 2021