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HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThe hon. Member is what we call a blocker. That is not in the nature of this Government. We will get on and deliver.29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. In working on the plan for change’s priority of 1.5 million new homes, the Deputy Prime Minister has already identified that as a great…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThe right hon. Member is confused. I am enormously proud of my region of Bristol and the south-west, not least because of our heritage and the potential that we have to offer the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyWe always get a bit grumpy as we get older, don’t we, Madam Deputy Speaker? But I agree with the right hon. Gentleman: we should go back to our childhoods and sing the song of…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyToday we have announced that the Office for Investment, which partners with foreign direct investment into the UK, will be given a line of sight to opportunities across the…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityThe OBR was very clear, as Members will see in its publications in the House of Commons Library, that the spending plans announced by the previous Government were—to quote the…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He reminds me that the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) asked me about broader reform to ensure that…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI am not sure I agree with the premise of the question. We do not seek to undermine Scotland, but to enable it, as an important part of the United Kingdom. That is why we have put…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI am pleased to announce to the House today the Government’s commitment to build, baby, build. We will deliver that for this country. My hon. Friend is right to point out the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyAs has been rehearsed repeatedly on the Floor of the House, the Chancellor had to make difficult decisions to get a grip on the public finances, given the state in which the hon.…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyMy hon. Friend knows that I have long been an advocate and campaigner for climate justice and our net zero plans, but I am clear that by working with partners and investors to…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyMy hon. Friend is exactly right. We need businesses to invest, train and employ, and to sell their goods and services. The Government’s partnership working with Rolls-Royce is a…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyFrom the nature of his question, I am not sure the hon. Gentleman enjoyed the statement today. Look, there are lots of examples today, both in this statement and in the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI thank my hon. Friend and all my hon. Friends from the Teesside region, who have campaigned hard for investment in their area. I visited the plant in question when I was Chair of…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThe Environment Secretary, working with the regulator Ofwat, has agreed the largest investment in the water industry on record, with more than £100 billion over the years ahead to…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyWe share the hon. Member’s ambition for the Northern Ireland economy and the people of Northern Ireland. We continue to work with them to unleash that potential. In respect of our…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyPithy, Madam Deputy Speaker! Yes, I completely endorse my hon. Friend’s question. He knows very well that in the technology space there are huge opportunities for investment in…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThese partnerships with the national wealth fund are crucial to ensure that local entrepreneurs, businesses and investors have access to the services provided by the Government.…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyJust to reassure the hon. Gentleman, I will point to three things he may wish to look at: in its long-term forecast, the OBR forecasted growth increasing in this country, unlike…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and his campaigning on behalf of his constituents. As I am sure he will have seen, the Government recently announced hundreds of…29 Jan 2025