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HANSARDLeaving the EU: No DealSome of the expenditure being undertaken by Departments will be required in any case for our post-EU future, whether we leave with a deal or no deal, but I have made no bones…29 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: No DealMy hon. Friend demonstrates ingenuity and she is absolutely right: the nuclear sector deal is very important.29 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: No DealObviously, we are disappointed by Hitachi’s decision to suspend work on the Wylfa project, but we have not given up hope. It retains the site and we hope that the work we are…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy principal responsibility is to ensure economic stability and the continued prosperity of the British people. At this juncture, the best way to achieve that objective is to…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the work that is going on in Cheltenham to build on the magnetic effect of GCHQ and to attract innovative cyber-based firms to the area. In autumn Budget 2018, I…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are absolutely determined to avoid no deal, but the way to avoid no deal is to deliver a deal. As the Prime Minister has said from this Dispatch Box many times, the choice is…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf the right hon. Gentleman believes what he has just told the House, he should get off his backside and get the Leader of the Opposition off his backside, and they should get…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have a cross-Whitehall committee that regularly discusses impacts of a no-deal exit and makes preparations for them. The issues that the hon. Lady is raising have been and will…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI agree with my hon. Friend on this. Forecasting has had a bit of a bad rap in this House over the past couple of years, but this report was interesting, because it showed that…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsJazz is alive and well in Runnymede. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will give me the precise address of the Runnymede Jazz Club later. The measures we announced in the Budget to…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsA consultation is under way that I believe ends on 13 February. Once it is complete, the Government will consider it.29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am pleased to say that I recently had an opportunity to talk to Tom Enders and his successor Guillaume Faury, the incoming chief executive of Airbus, and to assure them of the…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf we want to have well-funded public services and a generous welfare support system in this country, we also have to ensure that we have a solid business base creating the jobs…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am familiar with the project in question and a discussion is going on between the company and the Treasury. Those discussions are of course commercially sensitive and…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government have made a commitment to maintain the real-terms value of the defence budget at 2% of our GDP, increasing defence spending in real terms in every year. We have no…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsParliament speaks for itself, and Parliament clearly has the opportunity to speak on this issue. I will continue to work with the Prime Minister to try to ensure that the deal…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI or one of my colleagues will be very happy to meet Sir James Dyson should he request such a meeting. We regularly meet industrial leaders, and we will continue to do so.29 Jan 2019HANSARDLowest Paid: EarningsMy hon. Friend is right and we are proud of that record. From 2015, 1.7 million of the lowest paid will be taken out of tax entirely and a typical basic rate taxpayer is £1,205…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsEarlier in this session, I said that, if we want to have well-funded public services and a well-funded welfare support system, we must ensure that we have a sound economy. Part of…29 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is not what the Government propose or have proposed, but we must recognise that retail is changing and that the nature of our high streets has to change. The future high…29 Jan 2019