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HANSARDEngagementsIt was great to visit my hon. Friend in his constituency the other week to see the delights of Cornwall. I wish everyone a happy St Piran’s day for next week. Cornwall has been…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe Business and Trade Secretary set out her position explicitly and clearly in the House last week. Since then, and despite some of the claims made by the party opposite, the…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his excellent and continued campaigning on health provision for his constituents. On his specific point, integrated care boards have the power to…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsAt a time of great instability around the world, with the war in Ukraine and in the Red sea, my hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that AUKUS is a game-changing defence and…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI welcome the hon. Gentleman’s support for the freeport. We are taking advantage of our Brexit opportunities to deliver two freeports in Scotland to attract jobs and investment in…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsAs ever, my hon. Friend is a fantastic champion for Stoke-on-Trent, and he is right: over the next several years, his area will receive 10 times as much as it currently does to…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend raises an important issue, and he is right to say that the local community should always have their voice heard. It is important that councils bring forward…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsIt would clearly be inappropriate for me to comment on an investigation before it has been completed. Our focus remains working closely with the Post Office to ensure that it…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for championing his constituents on this matter. As he knows, last year the Education Secretary rightly rejected Peterborough City Council’s…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsAs the hon. Lady will know, standing charges are a matter for the independent regulator, Ofgem, which is currently looking at all those things as part of a consultation. More…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the work he does representing his constituents. He is right about the pressures that are faced, particularly in rural areas, which is why the…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI am acutely aware of the strength of feeling on this issue, and the suffering of all those impacted by this dreadful scandal. We have consistently acknowledged that justice…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend raises an important point, and he is right to champion his constituents in this way. When Labour runs things, it does just run them badly. He can be assured that we…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsWe are delivering on what we said, which is 30 hours of free childcare a week for working parents of children from when they are nine months old until they start school. That is…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsThat is no way to talk about the Welsh farming community.28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsOn Monday we launched a consultation on the largest ever roll-out of new bathing water sites: 27 potential new bathing waters in England, including an extra one on the River Teme…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsAs I outlined previously, it is not right to call for an immediate ceasefire that would collapse instantly into more fighting and not do anything to get more aid into Gaza to…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsAs my hon. Friend will know, GP leases are commercial agreements between landlords and tenants, but he is right that everything that can be done should be done to ensure that GP…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI was pleased to be in Wales just last week, and these are the facts on the ground: the Labour-run Welsh NHS is performing the worst in the United Kingdom; small Welsh businesses,…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI join my hon. Friend in his passion for AI. Like him, I am proud of our record at the forefront of the AI revolution, having created one of the world’s first AI safety…28 Feb 2024