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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI commend my hon. Friend for his inventiveness. Our ports lie at the heart of our prosperity, and I am delighted that the Humber freeport is imminently going live, alongside the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDGender Equality: Fiscal PoliciesOur fiscal policies support the Government’s ambition of creating a fairer and more equal society, and women are among those who will benefit the most. For example, women are…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Jason McCartney) for his invitation, and I look forward to being in Darlington at the Treasury’s northern hub this week. I am…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthI hope I can reassure my hon. Friend. The spending review confirmed that local road maintenance funding will be held at 2021-22 levels, which include the £500 million potholes…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthMy hon. Friend raises an important point. The centrality of good local transport connectivity to regional growth cannot be overstated, which is why we have provided £96 billion…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthThe Budget provided the largest ever block grant settlement for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as part of the Barnett consequentials, of which we are very proud. On the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthLevelling up is the core mission of this Government. At the autumn Budget we announced the first awards from the £4.8 billion levelling-up fund, together with £5.7 billion for…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthThe hon. Lady raises a really important point: the western gateway is a phenomenally important part of our wider UK growth package. I engaged closely with it last year when I was…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthThe right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point about the importance of oil and gas to the UK economy and, of course, in particular to Scotland’s economy. My colleagues on the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDRegional GrowthSkills are at the heart of our wider work on levelling up, which is why £3.8 billion has been allocated throughout the course of this Parliament to make sure we get the right…07 Dec 2021HANSARDGender Equality: Fiscal PoliciesThe Government have always considered this issue, which goes back over the past decade, very carefully. For the purposes of intergenerational fairness and the wider sustainability…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady raises an important point. Of course, we delivered a record settlement for the Department of Health and Social Care at the recent spending review. That budget will…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsTransport sits at the heart of the spending review that has just concluded, and of course we have the £96 billion integrated rail plan. I am very happy to look at the scheme to…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe worked at speed to secure the PPE needed to protect our frontline workers, and we supplied over 58,000 different healthcare settings. We now have a four-month stockpile of all…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance UpdateThe Government will bring forward regulations that will increase most tax credits rates, and thresholds, and will increase the child benefit and guardian’s allowance rates in line…25 Nov 2021HANSARDYoung People: High-skilled JobsThrough our plan for jobs, nearly 95,000 young people so far have started a kickstart job; we have extended that scheme to March 2022. More than 100,000 apprentices, of whom 75%…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe Government stand fully behind our youth budget. From the National Citizen Service to youth hubs, our wider work is clear. We are fully committed to ensuring that young people…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsYes, I will. It is always a pleasure to give way to the hon. Gentleman.02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI absolutely will, because there is sometimes said to be ambiguity about levelling up. It is clear to me that it is about life chances through life, from cradle to grave. It is…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThis Government remain fully committed to great care, free at the point of need, which of course is the founding principle of the health service. We remain fully committed to…02 Nov 2021