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HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Lady has referred to the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) and the abuse that she has received, which I and all Members of this House, I know, believe is…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsOn this side of the House, we are proud to be on our second female Prime Minister. [ Interruption. ]02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsI would say that we have looked at this issue and we continue to look at it. On the subject of using inflammatory language, it is incumbent on Members in all parts of the House to…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We want to make the UK the safest place in the world to go online for our children, but also for all members of our society. Our online harms…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsFirst, we did not sit idly by. The Government’s efforts, co-ordinated by the Transport Secretary, to ensure that the holidaymakers and travellers who were caught overseas could be…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. Members on the Labour Front Bench are pointing to my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May). Well, I would like to take this opportunity to…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman is at risk of sounding like he is all mouth and no trousers, because he had the chance to vote for a general election and he turned it down; he had the…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend gets straight to the crux of the matter. We must leave by the end of October, come what may. We are committed to doing that. The most effective way of doing it that…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsI will certainly pass on the hon. Lady’s specific request to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. She is right to raise the quality of housing.…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady’s concerns are shared right across the House, so it is something that will be of interest and importance to everyone here today. The national planning policy…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsIt sounds like a tantalising proposal. I am sure that the Health Secretary will look at it very carefully indeed. We have made it clear that we back the NHS with the biggest cash…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsI feel for anyone in the Thomas Cook scenario—people stranded abroad or people who lost their jobs. I have set out why the Government do not systematically bail out or step in to…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. and learned Friend. I was not quite sure what the question there was, but the position of the Government is that advisers advise and Ministers decide. It is…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Government have been very clear: we will respect the law— [ Interruption. ] We will respect the law, but we are not going to extend beyond 31 October. I would ask all hon.…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsWe are concerned about what we are seeing on the streets of Hong Kong. We of course condemn any violence by protesters, but the vast majority are seeking to exercise their right…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I would go one further and tout the words of Martin Luther King, who said that we—I think on all sides of the House—should believe in a society…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsOf course we share the concerns of anyone in the position of the hon. Lady’s constituent. That is why the head of the NHS, Sir Simon Stevens, and the Health Secretary have said…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsIt is absolutely crucial that we make this country the best place to invest for technology and innovation, and that is part of the vision of global Britain. So I pay tribute to…02 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsI can give my right hon. Friend that reassurance. I do understand, and we have always managed to stay on civil, cordial, even amiable terms throughout all the challenges of…02 Oct 2019HANSARD Hong KongMy hon. Friend is right. I put on the record that I have had conversations about BNO passport holders and I know that the Home Secretary is apprised of their situation. We have…26 Sept 2019