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HANSARDEngagementsI know my hon. Friend is a fantastic champion of his local businesses. It was a privilege to visit Beeston and Hallam’s earlier this year with him. I remember that we discussed…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEngagementsI know this is an issue on which the hon. Gentleman has campaigned for some time, and he is right to highlight the importance of making sure that our children have access to food.…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEngagementsLast year’s integrated review set out our Indo-Pacific tilt on foreign policy. I reaffirmed this Government’s commitment to that tilt in a speech at the Lord Mayor’s dinner just…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his continued work on this case. As he said, it is something that he has raised before. He will appreciate that, while I cannot speak in detail on…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat we are doing is significantly increasing the number of caseworkers. We are on course to double it by next spring, with several hundred already in place. The right hon. Lady…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPrime MinisterI am deeply sorry to hear about Vanessa’s circumstances. I want her to know that the plan that the Chancellor announced last week will help families like hers up and down the…01 Dec 2022HANSARDPrime MinisterI am deeply sorry to hear about Vanessa’s circumstances. I want her to know that the plan that the Chancellor announced last week will help families like hers up and down the…01 Dec 2022HANSARDEngagementsLike my hon. Friend, the Government are committed to tackling violence against women and girls, and to making our streets safer. We created the safer streets fund, which funds…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe are determined to do whatever it takes to break the business model of the people smugglers, who are causing the needless loss of life of people in the channel and putting…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsI have nothing but admiration and gratitude for our nurses for all the work they do, but it is simply unreasonable and unaffordable to have a 19% pay rise. If that is what the…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right about the unacceptable deterioration in the quality of Avanti’s service. The Transport Secretary is rightly monitoring it and holding…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe are supporting almost 2 million children with free school meals. We also, last year, invested hundreds of millions of pounds in the new holiday activities and food programme,…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsNot only are we supporting in this country carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and offshore wind—all new technologies that will help us to get to net zero and will create jobs in…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is right that we spread opportunity across the country, including in Eastleigh and the south. I understand that it is for Hampshire County Council to bring forward the proposal…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsTaking advantage of our freedoms is going to drive growth, jobs and prosperity in the UK, whether in life sciences, in reducing the burdens on data for those SMEs or in the…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am sure that colleagues around the House will want to join me in congratulating England on last night, in commending Wales for inspiring millions and in wishing everyone a happy…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe did have that conversation not so many years ago—it was described as a once-in-a-generation referendum—and we discussed this last week. I think what the people of Scotland want…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe are delivering record numbers of new homes under this Government. That is what we are doing. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about toughness. He is too weak to stop…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsWe did hear that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is too weak to confirm there will be no one on the picket lines. It is the same old Labour ideas: more debt, more inflation,…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend for her dedicated work in this area. She is absolutely right to highlight the fact that, this week, the UK hosted the Preventing Sexual…30 Nov 2022