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HANSARDTen-year Infrastructure StrategyI thank my hon. Friend for championing the Dorset clean energy super cluster opportunity, which was announced by her council at the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTen-year Infrastructure StrategyThe hon. Lady will know that we are waiting to receive detailed proposals from Heathrow for the development of the third runway. The Government will consider those proposals in…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Labour Government in Westminster are delivering for the people of Scotland. As a consequence of our spending review, Scotland will receive an average of £50.9 billion per…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. At the end of the current Parliament, people will be better off as a consequence of the decisions that this Labour…01 Jul 2025HANSARDBritish Coal Staff Superannuation SchemeI thank my hon. Friend for his question, and I extend the thoughts of the House to his constituents and the communities that he represents. He will know that I have always kept…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn behalf of the House, may I thank social care workers for the service they provide in all our constituencies? As a result of this Labour Government commitment’s to social…01 Jul 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyThere is a key difference: under the last Government, Wales did not get a penny, but under this Labour Government, working with the Labour Government in Wales, it has had not only…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI politely point the hon. Member to the fact that previously there were two functions in Government, and I have closed both of them and created one, so we are actually down by…19 Jun 2025HANSARDUK Infrastructure: a 10-year StrategyThe Government have today laid the “UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy” [CP 1344] which restores confidence and drives economic growth by funding at least £725 billion for…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out the failure of other Governments—both the previous Government at Westminster and the current Government in Scotland. When preparing…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI agree with my hon. Friend on our extremely ambitious plans for council houses—or social and affordable houses, as we call them now. He will know that I, too, grew up in a…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyNoting that I need to manage carefully my conflicts of interest as a Minister and a constituency MP, I would just point the hon. Lady to the announcement made the other week—I…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI am always happy to meet my hon. Friend. I can confirm that in the design and funding of NISTA, I have funded a particular team to work on the management of disputes under the…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyIt seems that I have a list of bids for place-based business case pilots, which we will take away and consider. My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight why this issue is…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI am sure that the hon. Gentleman makes a very good case, which Ministers in the Department for Transport will need to answer, but I am pleased to know that the Liberal Democrats…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the challenges that I learned on coming into government is that the last Government did not even ask what the maintenance backlog was in…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI thank the hon. Member for his question. As he will have seen from the Chancellor’s previous statements, we are increasing investment in transport—whether rail, road or…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyThe difference from the last Government is that they promised things with no money, and we are promising things with actual money. The hon. Member points to the midlands hub in…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and he will see in due course, when the industrial strategy is published, that we have been thinking across Government about the role of…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyThat was a stream of slightly incoherent questions, if I may say so. I point the hon. Gentleman to the document that we have published today, which does mention Scotland quite a…19 Jun 2025