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HANSARDEngagementsWhat is actually happening is that we are funding the NHS across the whole of the UK, including in Scotland I am proud to say, with record sums. We have ensured that nurses have…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe are protecting people on low incomes up and down the country— [ Interruption. ] Indeed we are. And we are freezing fuel duty and supporting childcare. We have brought in a huge…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman is totally right in what he says about radiologists and pathologists, but may I respectfully say to him that that must be done by means of the big powerful…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 2021HANSARDEngagementsI have answered that question many times. The answer is no, and, in any case, Labour would abolish universal credit altogether.15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsActually, what we have done with our local housing allowance is increase by £600 the amount of money available to exactly the type of person the right hon. and learned Gentleman…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsLet me ask you, Mr Speaker, since you are a man of great restraint and taste and judgment: which country has the fastest growth in the G7? Where is employment up? Where are job…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 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 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 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank my hon. Friend, who is the living embodiment of the robustness of British agriculture, and indeed of the benefits of English food—of British food, particularly the…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsIf the hon. Lady’s constituents are being told that they do not have to remove that cladding, then the answer is no. It is very, very important that this House should recognise…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 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 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 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 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 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes. My hon. Friend is a great campaigner for the people of Penrith and The Border, and I can tell him that in addition to our support for 500 school-rebuilding projects in the…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, I totally agree with my right hon. Friend. That is why we are investing in the NHS, and we want the NHS to be a better place for the dental profession. Would it not be a fine…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 2021