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HANSARDEngagementsI am perplexed that the First Minister has not welcomed the deal. It is a massive deal for Scotland—it is 15 years of shipbuilding. I would have expected the First Minister to…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsFirst, I welcome the Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster to Parliament. I take this opportunity to say to the hon. Member and to them that we have invested more than £2.7 billion in…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for her question. It is important that local authorities are given additional tools and powers to ensure vibrant high streets. We are looking at introducing…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI think I saw that the Leader of the Opposition said this to The Sunday Times at the weekend: “I have inherited a gigantic mess and I’m cleaning it up.” She said: “It’s very…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI did notice that the Leader of the Opposition went to Scotland, I think, this week to announce that if she ever became Prime Minister, which is extremely unlikely, she would pull…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsThere is nothing progressive about people crossing the channel in small boats—nothing at all. We need to ensure that that stops. I agree with the hon. Gentleman on the question of…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsWe do stand at an important moment: we can have the politics of renewal under this Government, or the politics of grievance under Reform. Reform does not want to fix the problems;…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI hope the hon. Gentleman paced out the visits to all those pubs, and did not do them all in one go. UKHospitality has welcomed our small business plan, which obviously applies to…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI have the misfortune to disagree with him.03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsIf it had been the Conservatives, there would not have been the accountability, which is now in place, because they spent years and years avoiding it. The right hon. Lady’s claims…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsMay I recognise and congratulate the businesses in my hon. Friend’s constituency? We have published our small business plan, which was very well received. It includes new rules;…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsOn Sunday, we won the contract for the biggest defence deal that Norway has ever placed. That is a £10 billion investment, securing 15 years of shipbuilding in Scotland and across…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI join the Leader of the Opposition in her comments about Mr Warburton. I think the whole House would unite on such an issue. In relation to the Deputy Prime Minister, she has…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsMay I join the right hon. Gentleman in his comments about Annette Brooke, and also in his description of the horrifying situation in Gaza? It is horrifying. We are looking at a…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Lady said that the Opposition were not referring themselves to the ethics advisers. That is among the reasons they got booted out of office last year. She complains…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsOf course, the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) is not here to represent his constituency in the House that he was elected to. No, he has flown to America to badmouth and…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Member for raising this important issue, and reassure him that we do want to keep the huge expertise and knowledge of the UK Space Agency staff, including those…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI acknowledge my hon. Friend’s campaigning on this really important issue. Russia’s policy of forced deportations and indoctrination of Ukrainian children is despicable, and…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI share the right hon. Gentleman’s pride in our country’s flag. It represents our history, our heritage and our values. That is why we display it. I was the Labour leader who put…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend raises a really important issue in relation to the horrifying situation in Gaza. The Israeli Government are preventing urgently needed aid from getting in, which is…03 Sept 2025