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HANSARDDiscussions with the Welsh Government: Ministerial ResponsibilityCabinet Office Ministers regularly engage with the Welsh Government and all the devolved Administrations as part of the Government’s continued collaborative working arrangements.…08 Jul 2021HANSARDCCTV Cameras: Ministerial OfficesThe placement of security cameras in Departments is a matter for each individual Department.08 Jul 2021HANSARDLevelling-Up AgendaMy right hon Friend is absolutely right. He is a brilliant advocate for south-east London and for business. I look forward to working with him to ensure that there is improved…08 Jul 2021HANSARDLevelling-Up AgendaI absolutely will. There is nothing left behind about Clacton and Frinton and the communities that my hon. Friend so ably represents, and I look forward to visiting them. I…08 Jul 2021HANSARDLevelling-Up AgendaI am delighted beyond words that the hon. Lady believes that we should procure more, buy more and invest more in Britain. All that is now possible as a result of our departure…08 Jul 2021HANSARDLevelling-Up AgendaMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to mention Ben Houchen, the Gareth Southgate of local government. It is appropriate that, as the Treasury and the Department for International…08 Jul 2021HANSARDLevelling-Up AgendaAs a distinguished former Equalities Minister and former Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, my right hon. Friend is absolutely right: more must be done as part of…08 Jul 2021HANSARDLevelling-Up AgendaLevelling up is at the heart of the Government’s covid recovery agenda, and I am in daily contact with Cabinet colleagues. Through the levelling up fund, we have already committed…08 Jul 2021HANSARDUnion in Scotland: Public Opinion PollingA bottomless Unionist slush fund sounds like a great thing, but unfortunately it does not exist. I am afraid that I refer the hon. Gentleman again to the judgment. The contract…08 Jul 2021HANSARDUnion in Scotland: Public Opinion PollingThe hon. Gentleman refers to a case that was brought to the first-tier tribunal by the hon. Member for Edinburgh East (Tommy Sheppard). We are reviewing how we can comply with the…08 Jul 2021HANSARDUnion in Scotland: Public Opinion PollingThe hon. Lady refers to my right hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper). He is a former Chief Whip, and, as a member of that broederbond, I know that there can…08 Jul 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are only following what the Labour party does. It was the Labour party that introduced the requirement for voter ID in Northern Ireland, as the Minister for the Constitution…08 Jul 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. We do not currently have plans to do that, but she makes a fair point. As everyone knows, for the remaining hereditary peerages in the…08 Jul 2021HANSARDCivil Service: Jobs Outside LondonI absolutely will. It is horrific that so much public money has been misused by the former Labour administration in Durham County Council and that the people of that county have…08 Jul 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy Department, along with the Leader of the House, has been reviewing the English votes for English laws procedure. The procedure has been suspended since April 2020 and, having…08 Jul 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would reassure them by saying that all Government business is transacted through civil service colleagues, and that in order to ensure that a single penny of taxpayers’ money is…08 Jul 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend chairs the Committee brilliantly, but there are rules—the Osmotherly rules. They stress that serving civil servants act only in accordance with the wishes of…08 Jul 2021HANSARDCCTV Cameras: Ministerial OfficesThe hon. Gentleman raises an important and serious issue. The permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office and the head of the Government Security Group are looking at precisely this…08 Jul 2021HANSARDUnion in Scotland: Public Opinion PollingI hesitate to correct the hon. Gentleman, but Lady Justice O’Farrell did not find that I had operated with any form of bias—apparent, actual or otherwise. That is a misreading of…08 Jul 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI do not think that they would, necessarily. There are people who might seek to do that, but one of the things that Parliament can do—and one of the reasons that my hon. Friend’s…06 Jul 2021