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HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyThat is a critical point. My hon. Friend understands about Stellantis as well, because he refers to the successful plant in Luton. What we want to see is a successful renewed…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyThe hon. Lady is right. We are considering many ways to stimulate the demand to drive this critical agenda. It was a big step for the Prime Minister to announce that we would try…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI am very pleased that my hon. Friend has raised that question. I had an excellent visit a few months ago, as he remembers, to his constituency and Culham. I spoke to many…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI think the hon. Gentleman is quite right. There are two issues here: there is a local issue, and I can only imagine the uncertainty under which the excellent workers in his…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyThe hon. Gentleman raises two issues. First, I think the Brexit deal is a success. Given the fact that we had two general elections in that period and five years in which we spoke…01 Mar 2021HANSARDAdvance Research and Invention AgencyThe UK has a proud history of scientific excellence and invention. Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and, later, Alan Turing pioneered early predecessors of the computer. Thomas…22 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very pleased to be responding to my right hon. Friend. I very much enjoyed working with her in the Department and I am pleased that she is taking such an interest in our…09 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is absolutely right: we have to look after the interests of our whisky exporters. It is a key interest. I have spoken to Karen Betts I think twice in my first month…09 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very pleased to announce that I and my ministerial colleagues have stated again and again that fire and rehire is completely unacceptable. I was in regular contact with…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessesI fully appreciate—this is our key message as a Government—that jobs and employment are a No. 1 priority. That is exactly why my right hon. Friend the Chancellor extended the…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessesThroughout this crisis, as I am sure my hon. Friend is aware, the Government have stood by businesses, as she mentioned, and worked tirelessly to protect people’s jobs and…09 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsDare I say it, that was an excellent question, which goes to the heart of what this whole period has taught us. The fact that we managed to procure, develop and distribute so many…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessesI am absolutely mindful of the immense pressures our businesses right across the UK are suffering under at the moment. I am in regular contact with my right hon. Friend the…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessesAs my hon. Friend knows, in January the Chancellor announced an additional £500 million in grant funding to local authorities for the additional restrictions; this discretionary…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessesWhat I do agree with is the fact that we have extended an unprecedented range of support and measures. I am in regular contact with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor; he has…09 Feb 2021HANSARDUK Research and DevelopmentThank you very much, Mr Speaker. We announced at the spending review an investment of £14.6 billion in R&D for 2021-22. This will no doubt cement our status as a science…09 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am absolutely aware of that issue. It is almost inevitable that we will be asked by the CCC to include those contributions in our budgets. As COP26 hosts, we will obviously want…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessesAs my hon. Friend knows, we speak all the time not only to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the sector; indeed, ministerial colleagues spoke to the…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessesIt is well known that we spent over £280 billion on an unprecedented package of support for businesses, including the job retention scheme, support grants and Government-backed…09 Feb 2021HANSARDUK Research and DevelopmentThe hon. Lady seems to be living in a parallel universe. If we look at the vaccine roll-out—we have seen 12.3 million, or nearly 12.3 million, people vaccinated as of this…09 Feb 2021