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HANSARDUK Biological Security Strategy 2023The Government are today publishing the 2023 Biological Security Strategy. The strategy sets out the Government’s ambition to ensure that by 2030 the UK is resilient to a spectrum…12 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsWe want to ensure that all children are safe and have access to an excellent education. Of course, local authorities must seek to identify children missing in their area and…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsThis Government will take whatever action is necessary both to clear the backlog and to stop the boats. Actually, as the hon. Member may have heard from my right hon. Friend the…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate my hon. Friend on raising what I am sure Members on both sides of this House will agree is a heartbreaking case, and I know that all our thoughts will be with…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman about the devastating impact of this terrible disease. We have significantly increased investment in mental health. I am, of…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI completely agree with my hon. Friend. The furlough scheme helped to protect about 14.6 million jobs during that terrible covid crisis. But what do we discover? Labour is taking…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI would actually argue that choral music is possibly one of our greatest contributions to global culture. I really do join my hon. Friend in congratulating Johns’ Boys Male Chorus…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsIn my Department, the Cabinet Office, I am working very closely with my right hon. Friend the Paymaster General. We are taking extensive steps to ensure that we crack down on…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsActually, before covid struck, the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers had narrowed in both primary and secondary schools under the Government. Since covid…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI offer my strongest support to my hon. Friend’s campaign; he is absolutely right to raise it. I question the extent of my powers to intervene on a bar closure in his…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsOf course, we will engage with local communities, but I find it rather odd that the Labour party has been saying for the past few months that it wants to build more housing and…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI assure my hon. Friend that the United Kingdom and His Majesty’s Government remain steadfast in their support for Gibraltar. We are working side by side with the Government of…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsWe actually introduced a bigger windfall tax than the Labour party was proposing. Thanks to that 75% windfall tax, last winter, we paid half of people’s energy bills. The hon.…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is in Washington at the invitation of President Biden. They will be discussing co-operation on a range of…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsIt will not surprise my hon. Friend to hear that I absolutely agree with him. Driving up literacy rates is central to our plan to grow the economy, so I am delighted at those…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsAs I am sure my hon. Friend knows, levelling-up partnerships are committed to work hand in hand with 20 places across England in most need of that levelling up. They are backed by…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI welcome the much shorter question from the right hon. Lady. Let me remind her of a few facts about the covid inquiry. We set it up, we have provided it with more than 55,000…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsWe will provide the inquiry with each and every document related to covid, including all internal discussions in any form, as requested, while, crucially, protecting what is…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsIf we want to talk about relationships between different people, I do not think that we need to search the right hon. Lady’s WhatsApp messages to know that there is no…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsOn the specifics of the right hon. Lady’s question, that is not the case: we continue to keep the policy under review. I am very proud of this Government’s record on funding and…07 Jun 2023