Mary Creagh
Chair, Environmental Audit Committee, Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
12:00 am,
21st June 2018
What plans he has to visit Wakefield in the next 12 months.
Michael Ellis
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Wakefield has a flourishing cultural sector, which is reflected in the high-profile work of local heritage arts and museum attractions, such as the Hepworth and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. My predecessor, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, my hon. Friend John Glen, visited Wakefield in December 2017, some six months ago.
Mary Creagh
Chair, Environmental Audit Committee, Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
That is very good news, but may I encourage the Minister and his colleagues to make either a ministerial visit or a family visit to the Coal Mining museum, which celebrates its 30th birthday this year; the Hepworth, which is launching its new surrealism exhibition by Lee Miller this evening—I will be hot-footing my way up there after these questions; or to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where Her Royal Highness Princess Anne has just launched “The Coffin Jump” by Katrina Palmer, which celebrates the heroism of the women volunteers of the first aid nursing yeomanry in world war one?
Michael Ellis
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
What a walking, living advertisement the hon. Lady is for her constituency and her area. I know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State visited it with his family recently.
Barry Sheerman
Labour/Co-operative, Huddersfield
That’s because there is nothing to see in Suffolk!
Michael Ellis
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
I did not hear that! We certainly value Wakefield and everything it has to offer. We will certainly keep it in mind for future visits.
John Bercow
Speaker of the House of Commons, Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Chair, Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion Committee, Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, Chair, Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion Committee
We are now fully informed about the Wakefield situation and we are immensely grateful to the hon. Lady.