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HANSARDSupport for Energy Customers: April 2023It is important that we support everybody who needs the support, and people in park homes are in a situation of which we are well aware. It is a question of working out how to get…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI was actually in Coventry last week because it is a centre for battery technology development, and my hon. Friend knows very well that Andy Street is one of the most effective…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhat we have seen is the lowest level of unemployment in this country since 1973. That is real people and real jobs, and employment is the best route out of poverty. We have seen…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsForestry is not one of the Department’s many responsibilities, but I will certainly take up my hon. Friend’s excellent point with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I have said already, schemes are in place to support people during the winter. There is £800 available that has already been announced. There is the £400 that everybody will…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI now give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Northamptonshire (Dame Andrea Leadsom).25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI do not accept that construction of what is actually happening. The House will have the ability to focus on issues on which it thinks the Government are going in the wrong…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe hon. Gentleman knows that Dispatch Box commitments have a very high standing in our political system. As Leader of the House, I was concerned that we were not using…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am certainly concerned about that. In the last couple of days I had to sign off a couple of explanatory memorandums covering law that was going to come into Northern Ireland…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe Scottish Parliament has been reluctant to give legislative consent motions to any Brexit-related legislation because of the politics of the SNP. That is a view that it has…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSupport for Energy Customers: Winter 2022-23My hon. Friend is quite right to raise this. Full details of the help available to consumers can be found on the Government’s Help for Households website, which people can get to…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSMEs: Red TapeHis Majesty’s Government are committed to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises through exemption of new regulations where possible. This exemption was recently extended…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSMEs: Red TapeWadworth is a very well-known west country brewer. I used to live not very far from a tied pub in Wadworth’s capable hands, and it is a distinguished company that serves fine…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSMEs: Red TapeI look forward to the hon. Lady’s supporting the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which is coming later today and will get rid of lots and lots of dreadful EU…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSupport for Energy Customers: April 2023The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. Everyone in this House is concerned about their constituents, the least well-off constituents, which is why such a big package of…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSupport for Energy Customers: April 2023There is a certain eccentricity in the Scottish nationalists’ boasting of the amount of oil and gas they get when they have been opposing efforts to increase the licensing round.…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsPots and kettles, Mr Speaker—that was neither short nor sweet. The greatest uncertainty of all is having socialists in office because the socialists ruin economies wherever they…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is an effective campaigner for pump hydro storage and it is important to look at that. We are looking at all possibilities for maximising renewable energy.25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend, who has made an excellent point. The ability of the House to get through its business is exceptionally good, and it is able to do so in…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThere is always a discussion to be had about whether a few days in a Committee of the whole House or upstairs in Committee provides better scrutiny. People sometimes reach…25 Oct 2022