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HANSARDBusiness 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 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 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 agree with my hon. Friend that the £3.6 billion towns fund is central to this Government’s ambition to level up the country and ensure that everyone, wherever they live, can…08 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI reiterate what my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary said in answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) when he made it clear that…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 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 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 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 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 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 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseHer Majesty’s Government are deeply concerned about the situation on the ground, including the continuing violence and reports of high numbers of civilian casualties. We call on…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Gentleman raises a very valid point: anything that we send out on paper is heavily regulated, and things that are done online are almost unregulated—not entirely, but…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend, as he so often does, puts his finger on the right issue. Shop workers have been fantastic, phenomenal and brave, because they all stayed at work at a point when we…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Government take this issue with the utmost seriousness and have been doing a great deal to help care homes, including issuing more than 100,000 tests a day to care homes…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI do indeed. I was not there at the time, but I was paying close attention to events. I have always thought that our great county is thought of by the people living within it as…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Lady is so right to bring this issue to the attention of the House. Yes, I would like to thank Ben and Ben for what they are doing, which sounds wonderful and…01 Oct 2020