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HANSARDWelsh AffairsThe hon. Gentleman makes a good point. That is precisely why we have to take considerable care with the measures that we are taking, because if we do not, then the already quite…03 Mar 2022HANSARDWelsh AffairsI do not think I will. That initiative, provided courtesy of the UK Government, unleashed private sector funding at the same time. My hon. Friend put his finger on what devolution…03 Mar 2022HANSARDVeterans Commissioner for WalesThe Minister for Defence People and Veterans and I are pleased to inform the House that the Government have appointed Colonel James Phillips as the first ever Veterans…01 Mar 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesThe Chancellor announced a £9.1 billion energy bills rebate last week. This includes a £200 energy bill discount for households across the UK, including Wales, as well as an…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesI certainly can. In answering that question, it is also worth reflecting on the fact that the Labour solution around VAT—an interesting recognition of a Brexit dividend—would not…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesNo. The hon. Lady seems to have forgotten that there has been something called a pandemic in the last two years, and that has had a significant effect on the global economy. She…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesThe hon. Lady has constituents, as we all do, who are of course concerned about the cost of living challenges ahead, but I hope I can reassure her by naming, as I have already…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCrown Estate: DevolutionMy right hon. Friend is right; I met the Crown Estate last week and had exactly that conversation. I have to say that it was an exciting, interesting, innovative conversation…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCrown Estate: DevolutionAbsolutely not. I made it clear earlier that where I take my advice from and listen the most intently is the views of port authorities, councils, investors, employees and the…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCrown Estate: DevolutionShock, horror—the hon. Gentleman raises that petition. Of course, it represents a tiny, tiny, tiny proportion of the population of Wales, even assuming that everybody who signed…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCrown Estate: DevolutionI think I caught the majority of the hon. Gentleman’s question. Yes, we have undertaken significant analysis of the potential, but the potential is massively enhanced by this…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesWhat I hope I could pass on to the hon. Lady’s constituent is that deploying the usual Labour response to pretty well every problem in the world, which is to find somebody and tax…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCrown Estate: DevolutionNo.09 Feb 2022HANSARDCrown Estate: DevolutionI have spoken on this subject recently to port authorities, investors, councils, employees and, most importantly, the public. Not a single person—not one—has suggested to me that…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesMy right hon. Friend makes an important point. The Treasury was explicit in what the Barnett consequentials were for the Welsh Government, and I agree with him. I do not…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesThe hon. Lady raises an important point about fraud. All I can tell her is that the Treasury is a world leader in tracking down, eliminating and reducing the risk of fraud, and I…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesI certainly will. There is a contrast worth highlighting, as the Government’s solutions to these problems are to provide direct and positive interventions for families across…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCrown Estate: DevolutionThere is no public appetite at all in Wales to devolve the Crown Estate, which would serve merely to fragment the market and delay the further development of key projects.09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesI am grateful—I think—for the hon. Lady’s question, but she seems to overlook the numerous examples that I have already given, and I have an even longer list of ways in which the…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInflation: Households and BusinessesAbsolutely. I refer to my earlier answer. That is critical, because we probably have a higher proportion of people in Wales in that position than almost anywhere else in the UK.…09 Feb 2022