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HANSARDThe Enterprise Act 2002 (Specification of Additional Section 58 Consideration) Order 2020I am grateful to colleagues for listening so intently and for their presence. I hope they will see fit to support the order. My hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester raises an…08 Jul 2020HANSARD De La Rue: GatesheadI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. The VMIC project had already been awarded and was already happening. All I did was bring it forward by 12 months so we can have it ready…25 Jun 2020HANSARD De La Rue: GatesheadThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to say that we need real support. There are three chapters to this challenge of covid. Chapter one was wrapping our arms around the economy and…25 Jun 2020HANSARD De La Rue: GatesheadI am grateful to the hon. Lady. She is absolutely right. We need to make sure that those traditional jobs are maintained, but also see where we can reskill and upskill into some…25 Jun 2020HANSARD De La Rue: GatesheadIt is customary to congratulate an hon. Member on securing a debate, but I think “congratulate” is the wrong word in this case, so I am going to commend the hon. Member for…25 Jun 2020HANSARDRural Areas and Market Towns: Support for BusinessesOur thoughts are indeed with our colleague who was murdered, Jo Cox, and also with the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Amy Callaghan); we wish her a safe return to this…16 Jun 2020HANSARDManufacturing Sector: Covid-19The hon. Member mentions the aerospace sector, into which the Government have put around £6.5 billion between the Bank of England corporate finance scheme and UK Export Finance,…16 Jun 2020HANSARDManufacturing Sector: Covid-19We are committed to ongoing engagement with industry to ensure that our manufacturers have the support that they need. That includes a roundtable that I am holding tomorrow for…16 Jun 2020HANSARDRural Areas and Market Towns: Support for BusinessesI know better than most, with Shipston-on-Stour, Alcester and Bidford—very important market towns—in my constituency, that it is more important than ever at this time to support…16 Jun 2020HANSARD Caravan Industry: Hull and East RidingI congratulate the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (Emma Hardy) on securing this evening’s debate, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull…15 Jun 2020HANSARD Caravan Industry: Hull and East RidingThe Chancellor has already announced the plans for the furlough scheme to come to an end in October, but we have designed all our interventions to wrap our arms around the economy…15 Jun 2020HANSARD Caravan Industry: Hull and East RidingI would be delighted to meet them. I am happy to arrange it as soon as possible. After the debate, I will ask my officials to reach out to the hon. Gentleman to make sure that we…15 Jun 2020HANSARD Caravan Industry: Hull and East RidingThe hon. Lady repeats powerfully the point that she made in her excellent speech, but the furlough scheme is only one of the interventions that we are making across the economy.…15 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)If the hon. Gentleman will give me a couple more minutes, I will come back to him. The facility is capable of testing large engines and, crucially, the next generation of UltraFan…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I hope that, as I make some headway, he will see some of the action that we have already taken to help the industry. I have…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I will try to make headway, without abusing your patience, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have given way before, so now let me try to make some headway with my speech. We will do all we can…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I thank my hon. Friend for his question, and, again, he anticipates my speech. We are looking at all of this, as I hope he will recognise from some of the things I will be saying…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)It is exactly the opposite of what the hon. Gentleman says, and I hope that when he listens to the words that I am about to deliver he will recognise the support we are putting…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I hope that as I make some headway in my speech he will recognise what we are doing. I can tell him, because he asked about…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I thank my hon. Friend for her question. I was going to come to small modular reactors later on. Supporting that programme will mean that Rolls-Royce will have another product…10 Jun 2020