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HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastThat sounds like an excellent idea. I hope that the £400 million brownfield fund, which is part of our housing fund, could be of help. I know that Mayor Andy Street has spoken to…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastAnyone in the circumstances described by the hon. Lady would surely be eligible for support through universal credit, which can provide, depending on the circumstances, somewhere…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments. I would distinguish between two things. The borrowing that we are carrying out this year, which is, as he knows, at a…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for welcoming the £900 million in Barnett funding for Northern Ireland. He will be pleased to know that we have had productive…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his thoughtful and powerful contribution. I respect what he has to say on aid. He is right about the language that was used. He will know the…25 Nov 2020HANSARDNotification of Contingent LiabilityThe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England decided at its meeting ending on 4 November to ask for an expansion in the maximum limit of purchases that may be…11 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesLast year, we had the infrastructure financing review, which contemplated these specific questions. We will issue a response alongside the national infrastructure strategy, which…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesMy hon. Friend has long been a fantastic champion and advocate for this sector, and he is right to be so. I agree with him about the importance of making sure that our listings…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesI would point the hon. Gentleman to the phase 2 consultation that is currently outstanding of our future regulatory framework review. The key purpose of that review is to ensure…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesMy hon. Friend has focused on that issue for as long as I have been in this House—and rightly so. He will know that we passed the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 the…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesWhat the financial services sector needs is a vision for the future that will ensure we remain the most competitive place to do financial services in the world, and the…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesI point the hon. Gentleman to our Budget in March, where we set out a sense of the capital plans for the next few years. What he will see there are plans to spend over £600…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesThe hon. Lady will have heard my previous answer about our plans to take forward initiatives on access to cash, and protecting it. The outstanding consultation will conclude…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesMy hon. Friend is right about the importance of Leeds to our financial services ecosystem in the UK, and about the importance of that industry to jobs in his local economy. We are…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesMy hon. Friend the Economic Secretary is absolutely abreast of the issue and has been for a while, which is why we have a strategy for protecting access to cash. We announced an…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesAs my hon. Friend knows well from his own private sector experience, we absolutely need to attract private capital alongside public capital to deliver on all our ambitions. That…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesWithout commenting on specific projects, I think my hon. Friend is right to highlight some of the areas of interest to the Government. On carbon capture and storage, he will that…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesThe hon. Lady will know the importance of offshore wind in her area, and she will have welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcements for that sector, including the increase in the…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesMaybe I can help clear this up for the hon. Gentleman. There are a set of decisions that we can make unilaterally. There are others that we cannot, because the nature of the…09 Nov 2020HANSARDFuture of Financial ServicesI pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s campaigning on this important issue. She asks the right question to make sure the money is going where we want it to go. I can give her the…09 Nov 2020