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HANSARD Business of the HouseI congratulate my hon. Friend on the success of the restaurant in his constituency. I completely appreciate the position of parents who have been caring and making decisions for…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI am pleased to hear that the hon. Gentleman has great demand for debates. I am always happy to point colleagues in his direction when they have good ideas for debates, and I…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI do not know the specifics of the letter that has been placed in the Library, nor what it says, but I am sure that the Ministers concerned will have heard the hon. Gentleman’s…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI am not going to stray too far into the comments made by the two candidates to be the next leader of the Conservative party and Prime Minister, but my understanding is that both…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseClearly I am not privy to the specific case that the hon. Lady has raised. However, I urge her to beat a path to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who has departmental…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the hon. Lady for all her work on this very important issue, not least as the chair of the APPG for adoption and permanence. I believe that she may have put in for a…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Gentleman raises an extremely important matter and he has my personal commitment to do just that.04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI know that the hon. Gentleman, rightly, persistently raises—as he has done at more than one business questions since I have been the Leader of the House—the issue of religious…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) for his usual cheery contribution to our proceedings, but he was playing the same old tunes, as he does week…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the hon. Lady for her questions. I shall come to them in a moment, but let me start by saying that I have some bad news. Unfortunately, I have had to cancel the holiday…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseOn the hon. Lady’s last specific question, I have no doubt that her comments will have been heard and I will certainly follow up to ensure that an appropriate letter is written to…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI am not so sure about a debate, but perhaps we should resurrect the bus trip and go to visit all 69 of those locations, have a good meal and see just how good those places are—I…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseThe business for the week commencing 8 July will include: Monday 8 July—Consideration of a business of the House motion, followed by all stages of the Northern Ireland (Executive…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Lady raises an extremely important issue, and there is no question but that the events around the Windrush situation were deeply, deeply unsatisfactory. For that,…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI begin by echoing the thoughtful comments of my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) about the Under-Secretary of State for Digital,…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseIt is slightly surprising that the hon. Gentleman should continue to push on the issue of our commitment to the north in terms of expenditure, because the Mayor of Greater…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Lady raises a specific issue relating to one of her constituents and ESA entitlement. If she would like to write to me on the matter, I would be pleased to look into it…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI think that that may lend itself particularly to an Adjournment debate. If the hon. Gentleman would like to drop me a line, I will make sure that I am supportive of any such…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI will not use the same language as the hon. Gentleman, but having served in the Treasury until quite recently and been fairly intimately involved in two Budget cycles, the idea…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI both join my hon. Friend in congratulating Rugby local authority on the measures it has taken in respect of the urban meadows policy and congratulate him on his hard work…04 Jul 2019