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HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf the hon. Gentleman sent a proposal to my office about what we could do on a visit to the University of Huddersfield, I would be very keen to take a look. We support our…07 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman feels that we have not been investing as much as we should. What we have done in Port Talbot is the biggest investment that Government…07 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very happy to expand on what I said last time I was at the Dispatch Box on this topic. I repeat that our engagement with Canada on trade issues has been extensive across…07 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI recommend to the hon. Lady the report produced by my Department on 31 January about the benefits of Brexit. It explains exactly what is happening with the UK economy. Claiming…07 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman will remember that we had the Northern Ireland investment summit, at which we talked about bringing more investment into Northern Ireland. He will know that…07 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady raises a significant issue around ensuring that disabled people are able to access employment and are paid properly. We have no plans to introduce mandatory…07 Mar 2024HANSARDWorld Trade Organisation Ministerial ConferenceLast week, I attended the World Trade Organisation’s 13th ministerial conference MC13—in Abu Dhabi with the Minister of State for Trade Policy, my right hon. Friend, the Member…05 Mar 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThat is one of the reasons why we have been making personnel changes in this area. It goes back to the point I was making in the statement: Post Office needs an effective chair.…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThe hon. Lady asks multiple questions. The first is about a letter written by Nick Read, Post Office’s chief executive, to the Justice Secretary. What I can say is that UKGI and…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThe hon. Lady is right to raise that matter. We are aware of the problem. We are working with the advisory board to see how we can fix it and ensure that people get proper…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesI thank the hon. Lady for her tireless work campaigning to save Clapham post office; I know she has had many meetings with the postal affairs Minister. We should be able both to…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThe hon. Gentleman will know that Stormont is now up and running, and that we will be having conversations with devolved Governments on the best way to resolve this. We do not…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThat is absolutely the right thing to do. I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, because it gives me another opportunity to restate that the very idea that compensation…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThe hon. Gentleman is right: it cannot go on. I want to see everyone get their money as quickly as possible. By the end of this year, everybody should have received it. That is…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesFirst, I have not said that thousands of people knew that Henry Staunton was being sacked; I said that there are thousands of people who work in the Department, and it could have…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThe fact is that when we took the legislation through the House in December, the Opposition Benches were empty. Opposition Members are the ones who decided to take a more keen…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesI know exactly the sort of people my hon. Friend is talking about, and it is really awful to hear about everything they have been through. I have a constituent who has talked to…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesI completely reject the right hon. Gentleman’s assertions. This is the political point scoring that I talked about earlier, which we just need to stop. Rather than focusing on the…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesNo, no, and no. It is a shame that the right hon. Lady stands up in the Chamber and says that the Government acted only when we were forced to do so, because she knows that we…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThere will be no payments to Henry Staunton.19 Feb 2024