The Member spoke to the heritage Minister about Piece Hall, a heritage site. The cultural development fund allows communities to retain important public buildings with heritage value, repurpose them, and breathe life into local communities.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest, providing enhanced protection. It also provides financial support through Historic England's £95 million high streets heritage action zones programme.

As I have said, we have a number of initiatives under way. Arts Council funding is supporting the Music Venue Trust in relation to owning freeholds of properties and we have our supporting grassroots music fund, which has been topped up recently because of some of the issues cited by the hon Lady. We want to try to help music venues through these difficult times, because we believe they are so valuable, not only to the talent pipeline, but in giving communities access to local music and performing opportunities. We hope that these venues will continue long into the future.

Very simply, I read that report and accepted all its findings. We do not usually take it further, but I will certainly be happy to take a look at the case she has raised.

Our antisocial behaviour plan envisages strengthening various antisocial behaviour powers. As of next April, every police force in the country will have funding for antisocial behaviour hotspot patrols. Every force will have that funding from next April, and the situation described sounds like the ideal use for those ASB hotspot patrols.

This is ultimately a matter for the train operators, but they have taken the view that their staff can be better redeployed across the station concourse platform and barrier, accessing 100% of passengers, rather than the 10% nationally who purchase their tickets from a ticket office. Effectively, this is the railway catching up with the change in passenger behaviour and demand. I very much hope that in Halifax there will be a better service as a result. Some train operators are looking to turn currently unstaffed stations into staffed stations by redeploying, and I again give the commitment from the train operators that no currently staffed station will become unstaffed as a result of these changes.

The shadow Minister will know that in the police funding settlement for this year, 2023-24, there is around about £500 million extra—in fact, it is slightly over £500 million—for police forces up and down the country. That has enabled us to deliver a record number of officers ever. There are 149,572 officers—about 3,500 more than there were under the last Labour Government. In West Yorkshire, which the shadow Minister asked about, neighbourhood crime is down by 30% since 2019 and overall crime—excluding fraud and computer misuse, which came into the figures only recently—is down by 52% since 2010. I am still waiting for the shadow Home Secretary to apologise for being a member of a Government who presided over crime levels that are double those we have today.

I disagree with the hon. Lady's characterisation that the Government have been too slow to act on Russian state threats. Following the invasion of Ukraine last year, the UK introduced trade sanctions in relation to internet and online media services, preventing designated entities from using platforms to connect with UK audiences online. The Government designated TV-Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya on 4 May 2023, choking off the Russian Federation's ability to disseminate misinformation across the internet through its state-sponsored RT and Sputnik brands.

The Supreme Allied Commander Europe recently issued his regional plans, which extend to 3,000 pages of detailed proposals for the defence of Europe. From that will stem a donation conference at which all the member states will present their contributions to the plans. Within that, we will develop the new force model that will contribute to the new force structure of NATO. Once we have got through that period of the next few months, we will be able to tell the House exactly what we have put forward, how ready it is, and whether it meets the ask of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

I appreciate the hon. Lady's raising that case. I encourage her—I am sure she has already—to check whether her constituent would be eligible for housing benefit in her constituency. That is not necessarily linked to pension credit, although it automatically passports. We are doing other things to support pensioners in those situations—the pensioner cost of living payment was received by 8 million pensioner households over the winter, and will be repeated this year.

The hon. Lady knows very well that the Government have already sanctioned many individuals inside the Iranian regime and have taken action on individuals who may have had access around Europe and indeed into the United Kingdom.

My right hon. Friend's concerns are noted. My right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary will set out more details about the Government's response to today's High Court judgment on Rwanda.

We are investing £4 billion in schools, a 7% per pupil increase. Our Department helps schools manage costs through resource management tools and energy deals support to reduce non-teaching expenses.

I do not know the detailed contents of either individual's diary. The Government have acted on sanctions against Putin-linked elites without fear, extending to more than 1,000 individuals and entities.

I have repeated many times the reason why we have checks and visas. I appreciate the political difference between the Government and the hon. Gentleman's party, but we are not members of the EU; we do not have open borders. I acknowledge that he has a fundamentally different point of view when it comes to open borders and not having checks on those who come to our country but, in this case, security checks are vital.

Our guidance is about keeping both staff and pupils safe. At the beginning of January, 585 teachers responded to the call for volunteers, but we expect the full number to be significantly higher.

We are soon to launch the developing countries trading scheme, which will help developing countries to get better access to the UK market. We have also just launched British International Investment, which will help developing countries with their climate change adaptation by supporting their investment.

The hon. Lady makes an important point about the relationships between Israelis and Palestinians. The UK has, does and will continue to support and facilitate people-to-people contacts and cross-community contacts as well as ensuring that the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority also have a good working relationship.

My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary met the Israeli President Mr Herzog and the Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid during their respective visits to the UK in November. I also recently discussed the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Roll and Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh.

Of course I can. I restate what I have said in the House many times about the hybrid approach we need: no one Department can solve this issue in the channel on its own. Let us be crystal clear about this. I originally commissioned the military aid to the civil authorities request that went to the Ministry of Defence very early on, back in 2020. Of course my decision to bring in the MOD is vindication of our need to strengthen our defences in the channel. This is about a number of things—people are dying in the channel and in the Mediterranean. All aspects of pushbacks and turn-backs—of the approach we take in the channel—are operational. The MOD, maritime policing and Border Force originally came together, and they will continue to work together.

I can assure the hon. Lady that I meet the independent anti-slavery commissioner and she plays a very important role in informing the Government's policy. I can also assure her that the Nationality and Borders Bill is going to strengthen the Government's response and support for the victims of modern slavery. We have a world-leading system to support and protect victims of modern slavery that we have backed with significant Government resources and investment. The legislation that we are passing will enable us to respond more compassionately to those victims.

I thank the hon. Lady for her question and I know her own commitment in this area. The Government are taking a whole system approach to how we tackle serious violence. The journey of a young person who is involved in serious violence may start in seemingly tiny steps. It may be the offer of a new pair of trainers or the offer of a meal. That is how gang leaders ensnare young people into their gangs to go around the country selling drugs and so on. As part of the Government's work, we are investing not only in very tough enforcement action, but in early intervention programmes. The youth endowment fund has just launched its toolkit, which will help local commissioners to discover which programmes work and have the best impact on early intervention.

As I have already outlined, we have instructed our providers to make improvements, and we want to reduce the use of contingency accommodation through fixing our broken asylum system. I am sure many will be interested to note the Labour party's sudden interest in, and enthusiasm for, securing improvements at Napier barracks now that they are no longer being used by our armed forces.

We do not agree, as Public Health England was consulted throughout. The use is appropriate and suitable, with value for money being a key factor. Hotels are more expensive than barracks accommodation.

First, if the hon. Lady has not received a response, I will ensure that she receives one. The fact of the matter is that we are doing everything in our power to support the NHS heroes who have been working flat out throughout this coronavirus crisis, and there will be more activity on this front to come.

On 27 March, cessations were paused for positive asylum cases and resumed on August 11 in a phased manner. We are now beginning the process for negative cases, moving them carefully into local authority accommodation.

Discussions across Government departments have been ongoing. The “no recourse to public funds” condition does not apply to rent protections and financial support schemes like the coronavirus job retention scheme and self-employed income support scheme.