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HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising an issue that is obviously of real concern to businesses in her constituency. We expect landlords to meet their obligations to make buildings…12 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsThis is a really important issue, as the right hon. Gentleman rightly points out. I have long supported it and will continue to support it, and I will share details with him just…12 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady’s constituents are right to be frustrated about the empty, unfunded promises that were left behind by the Conservatives—a point made by her and by my hon. Friend the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsShe really needs to look into how these licences are granted. I appreciate that the Conservatives’ reset seems to be having no policies apart from cutting pensions, and having no…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsI know the whole House will be appalled by the death of a young boy in Sheffield on Monday. Our hearts go out to his family and his loved ones. Knife crime blights our communities…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman raises a very important issue. The most important issue on the ceasefire is obviously that it is sustained and that we see it through the phases, and that…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsI shall come to that very issue, but I notice that the Leader of the Opposition did not say that she was briefed about the Chagos issue. This is important. When she became Leader…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe Leader of the Opposition does not even want to know what is going on; otherwise she would have asked for the relevant briefings. She knows the position on Rosebank. She knows…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsAs the Leader of the Opposition knows, AstraZeneca’s was a commercial decision. She must understand that. All she does is come here every week carping from the sidelines, talking…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsAgain, the Leader of the Opposition clearly has not been briefed, or does not want to be briefed. GB Energy will be a publicly owned energy company that will drive the move to…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe NHS is the lifeblood of our country, and that is why we invested £25 billion at the Budget—a record amount—and are making it fit for the future through our plan for change.…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsWe set up the independent review, and I know the right hon. Gentleman welcomes that, and it was the right thing to do. I do not know the details of Andrea’s case, but if he…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Member talks about panic. The only panic is for people who know that his policy would be to charge them for using the NHS. What he should say to the people of…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. and learned Friend for raising that point. We know that the Leader of the Opposition lobbied personally to remove annual limits on student and work visas.…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this really important issue. It is obviously a question of jobs, but it is also a question of identity and a sense of place. Of course…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Member for raising this issue in that way, and I pass on to Agnes and Jim how impactful what he has said is, and how important it is that he continues to raise…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsFor far too long, crimes such as shoplifting have been written off as “low level.” That is wrong; such crimes are devastating. The Conservative party left us with rising crime and…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsAgain, we have obviously set up the independent review into exactly what happened in those cases, which was the right thing to do. We will look at individual circumstances, so if…05 Feb 2025HANSARDVisit to ScotlandThe hon. Member asks about visiting Scotland. As he knows, my first visit, within days of becoming Prime Minister, was to Scotland, where I met the First Minister. I have also…05 Feb 2025HANSARDVisit to ScotlandI remember when that rhetoric used to come from SNP Members sitting down there—05 Feb 2025