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HANSARD Business of the HouseThank you, Mr Speaker. The business for next week will include: Monday 5 October—Second Reading of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill. Tuesday 6…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy right hon. Friend refers to the intimate details of the Prime Minister’s correspondence, but what I can assure him of is that, before the latest series of lockdowns, which is…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe House has made the decision, quite rightly, that debates require personal participation. Debates do not run properly when people are remote and interventions are not possible.…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 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 HouseMy only worry about creating this great Lincolnshire state is that my hon. Friend may then declare UDI for Lincolnshire and become its king—a role he would carry out with enormous…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseObviously the events industry is particularly badly hit because of the difficulties in managing large gatherings. My right hon Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture,…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend is right to raise this issue. Electric vehicles are going to be tremendously important and are a central tenet of the Government’s economic agenda in supporting…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI congratulate my hon. Friend on standing up for his constituency in the way that he has. There is a £470 million fund for infrastructure, as part of the wider package of £705…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 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 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. Lady is right to raise this issue, which many Members from all parties have raised in the past. People’s access to vital services is of great importance and has been…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend refers to half-baked proposals and then King Alfred, so I cannot help but remember that King Alfred, as a baker, was not invariably successful.01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseIt is obviously important that we are able to export our food around the world. It is good news that UK beef has at last gone back into the United States, with a shipment going…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI will always try to facilitate meetings for hon. Members, if they need them, with particular Ministers. As for a debate, there is an Opposition day debate coming up, and this may…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI am appalled that fake news should come to this House and this country. I thought that it was something left to our friends across the Atlantic. There is nothing more annoying,…24 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI have entire sympathy with what the hon. Gentleman is saying. This is one of the great concerns about the effects of the pandemic. The Government are doing what they can in terms…24 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseIt is indeed an important allowance. The Government have offered pension credit since 2003, when it was introduced by our predecessor Government. Along with our increases in the…24 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe right hon. Lady is absolutely right: we should of course have a cup of coffee tomorrow to help Macmillan, which I know is trying to raise a larger amount of money than it…24 Sept 2020