Public Services: Budgetary Constraints

Part of Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at on 22 November 2023.

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Photo of Steven Baker Steven Baker The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office

It is easy to throw out a cheap political line like that, but as the hon. Member has heard me say to my right hon. and learned Friend Sir Robert Buckland and Fleur Anderson, the reality is that that levelling up money will be spent in Northern Ireland. I can certainly assure him that none of that money has appeared in my marginal seat of Wycombe—even though the whole House will know it is undoubtedly the most deserving and most beautiful Constituency in the nation.

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