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HANSARDEconomic Growth: ScotlandOf course, when we make changes to taxes, even when that it is difficult, that results in additional funding for the hon. Member and his colleagues to spend. I am sure he is…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEconomic Growth: ScotlandI thank the hon. Member for his tour of the scenic A9 and for telling us the importance of that road to Scotland. I am sure that I support what would have been his question. The…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEconomic Growth: ScotlandScotch whisky is a proud British brand and export, and this Government will always support the industry. I have checked with Ministers from the Department for Environment, Food…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEconomic Growth: ScotlandOn my recent visit to Scotland I heard just that. The people of Scotland deserve the same approach that the people of England are getting from this Government, who have stability…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEconomic Growth: ScotlandEconomic growth is the No. 1 mission of this Government. Scotland will play an important role. At the autumn Budget we announced that the Scottish Government will be provided with…04 Mar 2025HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyI thank the hon. Member for his question. My No. 1 ask is that he has another go at making better jokes in future. To answer the substance of his question, I agree with him that…04 Mar 2025HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyI agree entirely that mental health services are in desperate need of investment and support across the country. The evidence is very clear that there are, for example, too many…04 Mar 2025HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. [Interruption.] Conservative Members are chuntering, but that is their legacy. Not once in 17 years was a zero-based review done, not once did…04 Mar 2025HANSARDAffordable Housing: SupplyI am afraid that I have no idea what the answer is, but if the right hon. Gentleman writes to me, I shall make sure that he gets an answer.04 Mar 2025HANSARDAffordable Housing: SupplyMy hon. Friend knows that we are doing everything possible in this place to streamline and improve planning legislation and planning processes. We are providing clear signals to…04 Mar 2025HANSARDAffordable Housing: SupplyAt Budget, the Government announced major steps towards delivering a once-in-a-generation increase in social housing, including a £500 million boost to the affordable homes…04 Mar 2025HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyThe Government are committed to spending taxpayers’ money efficiently. At the autumn Budget, we launched the Office for Value for Money to realise benefits from every pound of…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRegional Growth: EnglandI find it odd that Members on the Conservative Benches do not welcome an additional £7 billion of investment into our economy; it is rather a testament to their poor performance…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRegional Growth: EnglandI can commit to working with DFT colleagues on projects such as that and others around the country as we make decisions in the upcoming spending review. I would make an…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRegional Growth: EnglandI visited Airbus in Newport last week to look at some of the advanced technologies we have in this space. I was told about the important connections between Newport and the hon.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRegional Growth: EnglandAs the House has already heard today from my hon. Friend the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, we have made permanent decisions to give businesses in the retail, hospitality…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRegional Growth: EnglandI thank my hon. Friend for his questions; I will do my best to answer them. I can confirm that Treasury officials routinely engage with local and regional officials across the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEconomic Growth: New Transport InfrastructureThe hon. Member will know that the Government have entered negotiations with our counterparts in the European Commission to improve trade between the UK and the European Union. I…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEconomic Growth: New Transport InfrastructureI am sorry to hear that the right hon. Gentleman failed to persuade his party, when in government for 14 years, to open that line. I can reassure him that this Government take…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEconomic Growth: New Transport InfrastructureI thank my hon. Friend, who is a strong champion for his constituency, for raising this rail project. In relation to such projects, the case that he has made will be an important…04 Mar 2025