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HANSARD SanctionsI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for mentioning unexplained wealth orders, because that is another thing that this Government have done in order to have the desired effect…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsWe work with our allies around the world on names. This is an effort between allies; we co-operate and discuss the matters, and officials work on that. The idea is to continue to…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsI thank my hon. Friend for his question, and of course he is right to focus on those areas in particular, as he has a marked interest in them as regards Scotland. Where these…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsI note what the hon. Gentleman says, but it is not often that people refer to the mechanisms of the EU as speedy. If he says that they are speedier than ours, clearly that is…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsMy right hon. Friend is certainly right that it creates an immediate economic shock. That is why the effect on the interest rates and on the rouble is as we have already seen:…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsI must make some progress. Around half of Russian trade, as I have said, is denominated in dollars and sterling. We have already used the power to designate Sberbank, the largest…01 Mar 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentI have no doubt that my hon. Friend is absolutely right.07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentI do not see this as a special status. This is a Minister of the Crown who remains Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and now has the role of chief of staff at No. 10. It is a…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentThe hon. Lady is quite right to ask that question. That is a very important matter and it continues to be. I can give her that assurance.07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentEvery Department of Government, without exception, does everything it can do to support the Union of this country.07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentI can indeed, and I know my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary continues to work on it, too.07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentI would like to know what part I could play in such a role. We do have, and we will have, in our chief of staff— [ Interruption. ] I did not hear that, Madam Deputy Speaker. What…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentThank you, Mr Speaker—I was just on my last sentence. I was saying that the Government set out that there would continue to be further appointments over the coming days, with a…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentIt is always a pleasure to appear shadowing, if I may put it that way, the right hon. Lady, but she will know that the chief of staff role was created by Tony Blair in response to…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentThank you very much, Mr Speaker. Before I begin, I am glad to have this opportunity to offer my congratulations to Her Majesty the Queen on reaching the 70th anniversary of her…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentIt is very peculiar to ask me, from the Dispatch Box, to predict the future, but if I were to predict the future, it certainly would not have Labour in it.07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, as usual. One could hardly have a more qualified person to be chief of staff than my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Cambridgeshire…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentIt is not good practice to discuss staffing and human resources matters on the Floor of the House. The hon. Gentleman knows that the Government are doing what they need to do in…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentTo be fair, I think that I am responsible for answering parliamentary questions, and I think I am right in saying that the statistics have dramatically improved in the last four…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentMy right hon. Friend is quite right to raise that point. I assure him that the Prime Minister and Government’s entire focus is on delivering on the manifesto promises that…07 Feb 2022