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HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsMy hon. Friend raises a really important point. For example, the first place I wanted to visit this morning was a further education college—the New City college in Hackney—because…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI will hold the right hon. Member to that promise. On working with those sectors, he is absolutely right. As we move forward, first, to complete the negotiations for a detailed…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI would certainly expect to see that collaborative approach.17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsAbsolutely. Indeed, by the time of the next UK-EU summit, we hope to have concluded negotiations on the linking of our emissions trading systems, on the food and drink agreement,…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsFor one year, the figure is £570 million, which is a 30% discount—better than the Conservative party ever achieved—and 10 months in, we will have a full review of both…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. When I spoke this morning, I had in my mind someone who wants to do some basketball coaching, or perhaps an engineer on an apprenticeship who…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI have a bit of bad news for the hon. Gentleman: it is a Labour win, I am afraid. On his second point, if he wants to discuss the customs union, a good starting point might be the…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI will disappoint the hon. Gentleman on his last point, because we will not be going back to freedom of movement. However, on his first question, I was talking to the Scottish…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsIt is always good to hear from my hon. Friend, and indeed from Robert. As I indicated, we will look to have agreed the youth experience scheme by the time of the next UK-EU summit…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI spoke to both the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland only this morning to discuss the arrangements around Erasmus+ and the other announcements I have…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI can update the hon. Gentleman and will write to him on the three specific countries he has mentioned, but I also say that the announcement I have made today on Erasmus+ clearly…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right, whether in terms of information or, indeed, hybrid warfare. In opposition, I visited Estonia, and other parts of eastern Europe, and I…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsMy hon. Friend raises a really important point. I think this is clearly good news and a good deal for our university sector, which is why both Universities UK and the Russell…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI may have been putting it a bit high when I said that I was playing basketball, but I did contribute in my own way. On my hon. Friend’s second point, obviously the Erasmus+…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsAbsolutely. As always, the hon. Gentleman has made a sensible, well-informed contribution, and I am grateful for his kind words and his personal congratulation, which is deeply…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsMy hon. Friend is quite right. Tens of thousands more people, many of them young people, will benefit from the accession to Erasmus+, although I seriously think, on the basis of…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI thank my hon. Friend for the work that she does in the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly, and I am grateful for the work that is done by that group more broadly. Clearly,…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsWe are aiming to conclude negotiations on the youth experience scheme by the next summit—which I see in the context of the 13 youth mobility schemes that already exist, many of…17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsIt is time to deliver concrete results, and that is exactly what I am doing.17 Dec 2025HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsWe would expect the price to be £810 million. With the discount, it is £570 million. However, the right hon. Gentleman completely misunderstands the situation, because a…17 Dec 2025