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HANSARD AfghanistanI have been very generous with interventions—I think you will agree, Mr Speaker—and I have made my position clear. Taken together, we are committing almost half a billion pounds…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI have given way, I think you will agree, Mr Speaker, quite a lot this morning. Thanks to your generosity and that of the House, there is now ample time for debate until later…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and that is why the UK has chaired the UN Security Council, and asked with our French friends to put a motion together to get the world to…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI am very grateful to the right hon. Lady, because I think that she has asked a question that has formed in many people’s minds about the 5,000. Yes, indeed, the 5,000 extra in…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanLike many of us, I have been lobbied extensively about the excellent work done by Mr Pen Farthing. I am well aware of his cause and all the wonderful things that he has done for…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanThe hon. Lady is entirely right that we will not be sending people back to Afghanistan; nor, by the way, will we allow people to come from Afghanistan to this country in an…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI was telling the House that we are making sure that we bring back the 35 brilliant Chevening scholars so that they can come and study in our great universities. We are deploying…18 Aug 2021HANSARDIntelligence and Security Committee’s GCHQ Procurement Report: Government ResponseOn 19 November 2020, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) published its report entitled “GCHQ Accommodation Procurement: A Case Study”. The procurement of…22 Jul 2021HANSARDMachinery of Government Change: Vaccine TaskforceI am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following machinery of Government change. With effect from 1 August 2021, the vaccine taskforce will become a…22 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a fantastic advocate for the people of Hastings and Rye, and she has made the case to me before for the improvement to transport that she recommends. I know that…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsNothing I can say from this Dispatch Box—or this virtual Dispatch Box, I should say—and nothing I can do can make up for the loss and suffering that people have endured throughout…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsLet us look at the position as it was at the end of last year, and as we come to the end of this parliamentary term let us be absolutely clear that it is thanks to the vaccine…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. This is my first opportunity publicly to congratulate him on becoming leader of the Democratic Unionist party. I look forward to working…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhat we want to do is level up across the whole of the UK by increasing access to high-wage, high-skilled jobs and by getting people off benefits and into work. That really is the…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsThat is spot on—my hon. Friend is completely right. The question for those who attack the current policy is: if not now, when? We looked at the data this morning with the chief…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady very much and I thank the fire service for its outstanding response to the fire at Asmall Primary School. I am sorry for the disruption that children are…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsI do not think that I have heard such total cobblers in all my life, except possibly from the Leader of the Opposition. That is not what the Bill does. On the contrary, it gives…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a massively effective advocate for the people of North Devon. She has made these points to me before, and I know that she is right. As she knows, we have put…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman is quite wrong, because everybody who is self-isolating is entitled, in addition to the equivalent of the living wage at statutory sick pay, to help, in extreme…21 Jul 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am always delighted to meet my hon. Friend. I listened to him and learned from him about bovine TB and badgers. We think that the badger cull has led to a reduction in the…21 Jul 2021