Lord Londesborough: ...this year than we will spend on the Department for Education’s entire budget. We are still waiting for per-pupil funding to return to 2010 levels, in real terms—a pledge, incidentally, that Rishi Sunak made several years ago as Chancellor. We now have 9 million adults in England who have low basic literacy and numeracy skills. That is a huge productivity blocker in itself. At the other...
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Rishi Sunak: This morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have other such meetings later today.
Rishi Sunak: Searches by my Office have not identified such correspondence. If the hon. Member would like to provide a copy, my Office will arrange for a reply to be sent.
Lord Collins of Highbury: ...development. To their credit, David Cameron and George Osborne sustained that commitment, keeping Britain on the path to 0.7% that Labour had set this country on. However, under the direction of Rishi Sunak, this Government retreated from Britain’s commitments, cutting our development target from 0.7% to 0.5%, and stripped billions from vital aid programmes in that process. I have...
Gareth Davies: ...ag offer amrywiol nad ydynt yn addas ar gyfer gwasanaeth iechyd yn yr unfed ganrif ar hugain. Ar ôl yr uwchgynhadledd ar ddiogelwch deallusrwydd artiffisial, a gadeiriwyd gan ein Prif Weinidog, Rishi Sunak, mae'n bwysig ein bod yn cydnabod peryglon posibl deallusrwydd artiffisial a phwysigrwydd cyfrifoldeb y llywodraeth i liniaru effeithiau niweidiol deallusrwydd artiffisial. Mae'r...
Rishi Sunak: I know the thoughts of the whole House will be with the families and friends of the four teenagers who died in a car accident in north Wales. I am sure we will touch on it later, but let me just say that we welcome the agreement reached overnight for a humanitarian pause in Gaza. This is something that we have pushed for consistently and is a crucial step towards ending the nightmare for the...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot: ...friend was joining your Lordships’ House, I had a bitter-sweet reaction: I was overjoyed that he was joining our House, but I was then fed up with the endless WhatsApps from people asking why Rishi Sunak had not asked me to join his Government. Normally, this House sits out the heady 24 hours of a reshuffle. My noble friend is joining an absolutely first-class Front Bench. I said to my...
Ross Greer: ...the face of Israel’s equally outrageous and equally blatant war crimes, we get silence, equivocation or worse. Keir Starmer defended the criminal act of cutting off water and power to Gaza, and Rishi Sunak told Netanyahu, “we want you to win.” We know what the Israeli Government thinks victory looks like—it is telling us: the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent civilians and...
Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...state. AI is a tool that the CCP will share with other authoritarian states, enabling them to impose iron-fist control of their citizens. I particularly applaud the initiative that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has taken in trying to get a global response to this, but this use of AI will doubtless aid and abet spying with Chinese characteristics, even here in the heart of our democracy. I...
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Jenny Rathbone: ...bobl yn mynd yn gaeth iddynt. Roedd yr holl arian a wariwyd ar helpu pobl i roi'r gorau i ysmygu yn arian a wariwyd yn dda, am mai ysmygu yw prif achos marwolaeth gynnar o hyd, ond bydd bwriadau da Rishi Sunak i godi'r oedran cyfreithiol i unrhyw un brynu sigaréts fel na fydd unrhyw berson ifanc sy'n 14 oed ar hyn o bryd byth yn gallu prynu sigarét yn gyfreithlon yn bilsen chwerwfelys os...
Rishi Sunak: At the start of the year, I made halving inflation my No.1 priority. Today, we have delivered on that commitment. There remains more to do, but this is a strong step forward. Also this morning, the Supreme Court gave a judgment on the Rwanda plan. It confirmed that the principle of removing asylum seekers to a safe third country is lawful. There are further elements that it wants additional...
Rishi Sunak: I am sure that my hon. Friend will be delighted that the west midlands now tops regional rankings for foreign direct investment. The Government are investing significantly in the region, including through hundreds of millions of pounds of levelling-up fund and towns fund investments, and introducing a new pilot scheme to help businesses in the region become more energy efficient.
Rishi Sunak: I share my hon. Friend’s disappointment with the Labour-run council in Kirklees. Just this week we saw a Labour councillor suspended for antisemitism. As he said, it has also closed Dewsbury sports centre and is proposing to increase car parking charges, punishing local businesses and shoppers in the run-up to Christmas. Clearly, the council is no longer fit for purpose. Local residents...
Baroness Featherstone: ...media, and ensure that they deal with all news media even-handedly.” I am sure that your Lordships remember when Suella Braverman—now the ex-Home Secretary and author of a love letter today to Rishi Sunak—went to Rwanda to showboat her care for refugees coming to this country. She excluded the Guardian, the Mirror, the i, the Independent and the BBC, albeit in the end BBC...
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Lord Warner: ...plan and passing new legislation to curb smoking. The new anti-smoking Bill is well intended but will take years to have much impact, and the backlog has increased to over 8 million people since Rishi Sunak first promised to cut it. The workforce plan arrived in June, a decade too late, NHS doctors have not stopped strikes and the King’s Fund has pointed out that the workforce plan has...
Baroness Verma: ...ensure that they are part and parcel of our discussions, so that no child is at a disadvantage in being able to aspire to their full potential. The important thing for me, like the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and many people who have come from the Indian subcontinent, is that this country has given us an opportunity because of education and how social mobility enables us to enjoy this...
Gareth Davies: Wrth gwrs, yr hyn rydym wedi'i weld dros y 24 awr ddiwethaf yn Araith gyntaf y Brenin gan Brif Weinidog Ceidwadol y DU, Rishi Sunak, yw arweinyddiaeth feiddgar wrth fynd i'r afael â rhai o'r problemau mwyaf sy'n wynebu'r DU gyfan yn 2023. A'r cyfan y gall Keir Starmer, y Blaid Lafur yng Nghymru a Phlaid Cymru ei wneud yw parhau i feirniadu o'r cyrion tra bo'r Ceidwadwyr yn cyflawni ac yn...
