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HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is a champion of nuclear and I know how important it is to thousands of her constituents. We are securing home-grown energy and driving bills down by unleashing a…02 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe answer is yes, we will look at the content of the Bill. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising it. Across the House, we all have tragic experiences of suicide. Our…02 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsIf you cannot work, you must be supported and protected. The reformed welfare system that we are putting in place will be better for individuals, better for the taxpayer and…02 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsI am glad that the Leader of the Opposition has asked that, because it gives me the opportunity to say that we have already started changing the jobcentres and investing in…02 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsI pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who is a fantastic advocate for her constituents. She is right to highlight the important work by the defence sector in her constituency and, of…02 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsI do not want to be ungenerous, but I do not think I am going to be listening to the hon. Member or his party. They were the ones who put an £80 billion unfunded tax commitment…02 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsIt is right that we do both, and that we do support agriculture. The right hon. Lady says that people across the country are concerned about solar, but they are also concerned…02 Jul 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsWe have an absolute commitment to international humanitarian law, and it is extremely important that we keep to that, whether in Gaza or Sudan. It is the framework through which…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsThe right hon. Lady must have missed the record investment in our country in the last 12 months of £120 billion, the four interest rate cuts, and the fastest growth in the G7 in…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsI am happy to remind the House that we had 2.5% of GDP on defence spending under the last Labour Government, and we will have it under this Labour Government. In 14 long years,…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsI have said that we need to alleviate the threat, and that we have taken a huge step towards alleviating the threat. I have discussed that with G7 and NATO colleagues, and with…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsYes, I do agree. That is why we have begun the hard work of reversing the damage done under the previous Government. My hon. Friend is right about the dividend that has been…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsNo, it does not. It was frankly embarrassing to suggest that I should not have been at NATO or the G7, and I think the Leader of the Opposition’s Back Benchers recognise that.…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsFirst, I think it was really important that NATO was united in the way that it was last night, and I do not just mean the comments of President Trump—I mean having the whole 32…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsFirst, I congratulate my hon. Friend on her elevation—I have not seen her personally since then—which is very well deserved. My hon. Friend raised a really important point. It is…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsThis Labour Government are focused on delivering security for the British people—national security, economic security, and social security. On social security, I recognise that…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsI thank my hon. Friend for her question. I reassure her that we are having discussions with other leaders not just at NATO and the G7, but on a daily basis about the architecture…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsOn defence spend, when we set out the commitment to 2.5% by 2027-28, I set out at the same time how we would fund it. We will continue to take that approach to any spending…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s question. I have visited Blackpool many times, as he knows. I know first hand just how important it is for those young people to see money going…26 Jun 2025HANSARD G7 and NATO SummitsThey should do that, and we are urging that they do. The current arrangements are intolerable and are never going to work; we need to be really clear about that. We will continue…26 Jun 2025