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HANSARDBusiness of the HouseToday is not only Gift Aid Awareness Day; it is also Octopus Day. We will be getting our tentacles into many important issues today. If any of us suffer from polydactyly, we will…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe business for next week will include: Monday 12 October—Consideration of Lords amendments to the Agriculture Bill. Tuesday 13 October—Remaining stages of the Fisheries Bill…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Mental health is an issue taken seriously by all the parties in this House, and overall mental health funding has increased to £13.3 billion…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseAbsolutely I will thank the community groups, including Pride in Linthwaite, Holmepride, the Hade Edge village volunteers and the Honley village volunteers. This is fantastic.…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI deeply sympathise with all those affected by flooding. It is a terrible thing to happen and when raw sewage is involved it is particularly problematic for the clean-up that has…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseObviously, that is a matter for local councils, which have responsibility for pavements, but my hon. Friend is right to make herself a champion of pavement politics, because…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am more grateful for that question than the hon. Lady may realise, because the Royal Osteoporosis Society is based in my constituency, in Camerton, and it is an absolutely…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy right hon. Friend reminds me of a 1979 Conservative election sticker that said, “If Labour’s the answer, it must have been a silly question.” The lockdown measures have been…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe House has adapted. If you seek a monument, look around—look at this half-empty or quarter-empty Chamber. There is none of the excitement and pizzazz that the Chamber normally…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseNo.08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that really important question. We do have an obligation to lead by example. I will not begin to pretend that I like wearing a face mask,…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe hon. Gentleman is right to raise those issues and bring them to the attention of the House. I remind him that Transport questions will be on 22 October, which will be an…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy hon. Friend is right to raise that issue. Early education lays the foundation for lifelong learning and supports children’s social and emotional development. It has been…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI had indeed come across early-day motion 972, because my right hon. Friend had the courtesy to tell me about it, so I knew what he was proposing. I also know that he is a great…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am sorry to say that I reject the whole premise of the question. This Government have a proud record on tackling poverty. We saw the biggest ever cash increase in the national…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy hon. Friend is quite right to stand up for businesses in Ashfield. The whole country will benefit from joining the WTO agreement on Government procurement as an independent…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMr Speaker, I heard your response to a point of order yesterday, and I endorse your comments entirely. It is an obligation of Ministries to respond in accordance with the…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy right hon. Friend is so right to raise this important issue. Although over 200,000 people were treated for cancer during the peak of the pandemic and NHS England is now back at…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI did not much like the beginning of the message, about Essex and Somerset. The match was pretty much rained off and it was not a proper County Championship this year anyway, but…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Government have taken many steps, which are clear across the country. The rule of six is in place in the south-west even though cases are currently low. The 10 pm closure of…08 Oct 2020