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HANSARDEngagementsYes. We have called for that in the past and we continue to do so. I hope that this is an issue where we can have unity across the House.16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsYes, and that case, as the right hon. Gentleman will understand, is a priority for the Government. We call on the Hong Kong authorities to release immediately our British…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsYes, I do, and I know this is a concerning time for families who rely on the brilliant work of Whitby InterActive. Children with special educational needs and disabilities have…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Member for raising what is obviously a very important case, and she is right to do so. I am not across the individual details of it, but it obviously does need to…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue and being a champion on it. He is absolutely right about the appalling inheritance: one in four children in absolute poverty—that is…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsYes, I do agree with those remarks, and we are constantly making representations on this with our partners. There is an urgent need, as there has been for a long time, for more…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe continued military activity in the strait is not conducive to peace and stability. Stability in the Taiwan strait is in all of our interests. On the wider point that he…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsOn this issue of winter fuel payments, we have inherited a £22 billion black hole. [ Interruption. ] Conservative Members should be apologising, not groaning, for leaving the…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend makes a good point. The Conservative party wants to get rid of maternity pay, but keep hereditary peers. It is the same old Tories. This is an important issue that…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsWe are looking at that, because those are obviously abhorrent comments, as the right hon. Gentleman rightly says, along with other really concerning activity in the west bank and…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the question of SEND, because it is a really important issue—I think this is the fourth time in two Prime Minister’s Question Times…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI welcome Tom to the House. It is encouraging to see young people engaging in democracy. County lines is a real problem, and all of us will have experienced its effect and impact…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Member for raising that. I do believe in transferring power out of Westminster and into the hands of leaders who know their communities best. Those with…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsAlex Salmond was a monumental figure in Scottish and UK politics. He leaves a lasting legacy. I know that the deepest condolences of the whole House are with Moira, his family and…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsThat is not correct.16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI welcome my hon. Friend’s work with the new Labour police and crime commissioner. It is sad to say that in Cleveland, the number of full-time equivalent police officers fell by…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI really do not think that party political points on security and intelligence— [ Interruption . ] Throughout the last Parliament, we stood with the Government on all questions of…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsYes—we speak with one voice. The right hon. Gentleman speaks about the record of the last Government. That record was 14 years of failure. Six years of austerity, three years of…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Member for raising that very important issue and for championing the voices of women in his constituency. We are committed to ensuring that all women and babies…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for her question, because years of underfunding have left councils facing huge budget pressures— [ Interruption. ] Opposition Members yawn; they do not know…16 Oct 2024