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HANSARD Research and Development FundingIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I congratulate the hon. Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) on securing this debate. I am a little disappointed that…17 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI am grateful to my right hon. Friend and successor for giving way. Will he acknowledge that the battery manufacturing innovation centre and the Faraday challenge, which…09 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationWill my right hon. Friend give way on that point?09 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationWill my right hon. Friend give way?09 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI bring it to the House’s attention that I am a vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary motor group and the chemical industry all-party parliamentary group. I am grateful to the…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing Strategy(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy if he will make a statement on the future of car manufacturing by Vauxhall at…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19The fact that the Prime Minister was able to make his statement today is principally down to the extraordinary achievement of multiple vaccines being rolled out right across the…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19But if the data surprise us on the upside, would it be possible to look again at those dates and take advantage of that?22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, especially the announcement on schools. He is right to be driven by the evidence. Last week, Professor Mark Woolhouse told the Science…22 Feb 2021HANSARDUK Space IndustryThe morning after I was appointed both the science Minister and, two years later, Business Secretary, my very first engagement was to meet all the representatives of the UK’s…04 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Update[Inaudible.]27 Jan 2021HANSARDHospitality Industry: Government SupportIt is a great pleasure to reverse roles, Mr Stringer, and to serve under your chairmanship. Nearly 10 months ago, I asked the Chancellor in an urgent question to bring in an…11 Jan 2021HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillIt was such a pleasure to see my right hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire (Mr Paterson) back contributing in the Chamber. Given the time available, I want to make just…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillSome of us had different views on Brexit, but those debates are now for the history books. Everyone in the House and the country should recognise the benefits of an agreement that…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI will not give way; I want to conclude. To capitalise on those strengths, as we come into 2021 with covid behind us and this agreement under our belts, I hope that we can take a…30 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI asked my right hon. Friend to consider restrictions on a more local level than county-wide, and I am grateful that he has done so across the country today. Infections in…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Energy White PaperI have no wish to disinter policies buried under the “Ed Stone”, but the policy of the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) was a price freeze rather than a…14 Dec 2020HANSARDFuture Relationship with the EUWe end 2020 with Britain as the first country in the world to be protecting its citizens against covid with a properly authorised vaccine. For millions of workers in the…10 Dec 2020HANSARDCoronavirus VaccineI join the Secretary of State in thanking the scientists who were involved in this major breakthrough for their brilliance and hard work, and I join my right hon. Friend the…02 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthKent is the biggest county by population in Britain and there are vast differences in the rate of covid within it. In Tunbridge Wells, we have one of the lowest incidences in the…01 Dec 2020