Results 41–60 of 842 for speaker:Ben Bradley

Work and Pensions: Economic Inactivity: Towns and Cities ( 6 Mar 2023)

Ben Bradley: I do not know whether my right hon. Friend saw my article in The Times a few weeks ago, but it discussed opportunities for towns, such as Mansfield, that have specific local requirements when it comes to tackling economic inactivity, the opportunities of building bespoke local schemes with local employers and training providers, and the opportunities from those relationships on a local level...

Labour Market Activity (28 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind words and for giving way. I should mention that I co-wrote that article with Adam Hawksbee of Onward. The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. He mentioned Mansfield’s statistics and the high levels of economic inactivity. These schemes are best built with local employers and training providers so that they can be bespoke for those needs,...

NHS Workforce Expansion (28 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I will try to skip the partisan rhetoric and get to the crux of some of the issues. I start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Aaron Bell) for mentioning PFI, because I also represent a hospital that, the last time I checked, spends 14% of its annual budget on repaying Labour’s PFI deal. That is incredible and a...

School Sport Facilities: Reopening (21 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: Before the Minister sits down, will she allow me to highlight a point about extracurricular sport? I am really grateful for the update, because I was not aware of the detail of the Opening School Facilities programme. It sounds really positive. I recently met the Schools Minister to talk about trying to get sportspeople into schools and into teaching. We spoke with my hon. Friend the...

School Sport Facilities: Reopening (21 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: It is a pleasure to bring this issue to the Floor of the House and to be able to discuss opportunities to open up school sports facilities to the wider community. It is an issue very close to my heart as a self-confessed sports fanatic, hockey coach, occasional football referee, parent of kids involved in grassroots football and someone whose original ambition was to be a PE teacher. I cannot...

School Sport Facilities: Reopening (21 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: The hon. Lady is absolutely right. We all know about the recent economic challenges around long-term planning, but the sooner we can have longer-term security around staffing the better. I would make the same point about the Department of Health and Social Care funding stream for school games organisers. They are in the same boat; if the funding is not confirmed soon, they will have to lay...

School Sport Facilities: Reopening (21 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: I was not planning to go through everything we discussed in the previous sports debate, but we talked at length about that issue, and my right hon. Friend is absolutely right that the cost of running sports facilities, in particular swimming pools, is hugely challenging at present. The business energy support does not tackle that; it does not specifically help or offer that support for...

School Sport Facilities: Reopening (21 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: That is certainly an option. Where taxpayers are funding those facilities, they should be able to use them. In cases such as Manor Academy, where schools do not feel able to do that, they could give the facilities back. Let the community or the district leisure trust run them—whoever is willing to open them up. I thank my hon. Friend for raising that point. What we have ended up with is,...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Bus Services: Finance (15 Feb 2023)

Ben Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to extend Bus Recovery Grant funding beyond March 31 2023.

Written Answers — Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Football: Reform (26 Jan 2023)

Ben Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that the White Paper on football reform (a) supports English Football League clubs and (b) protects the Premier League.

Sport in Schools and Communities (10 Jan 2023)

Ben Bradley: I appreciate my right hon. Friend’s engagement on this subject recently with my hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon and me. He mentions funding for opening up grassroots facilities, which is gratefully received and often important. In the case of North Notts Hockey Club, which I raised earlier, all that is needed is a padlock with a code on it so that they can let themselves in. It is...

Sport in Schools and Communities (10 Jan 2023)

Ben Bradley: It is a pleasure to take part in the debate. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Justin Tomlinson) for giving me a mention in his speech, and for the ideas that he contributed about engaging sportspeople in teaching. The premise on which our meeting with the Minister was based, for me, was the issue of male role models in teaching. I thank the Minister for his time, and I...

Sport in Schools and Communities (10 Jan 2023)

Ben Bradley: The hon. Gentleman is entirely right. Not just pitches but other facilities such as clubhouses provide a social space, and investment in them makes a great difference in leading people to come back every week to engage in sport, as well as attracting volunteers. As a hockey player, I despair when I see AstroTurf pitches, in particular, fall into disrepair. The Department for Digital, Culture,...

NHS Winter Pressures ( 9 Jan 2023)

Ben Bradley: It is pleasing to hear from across the House a focus on capacity in domiciliary care, which is a huge priority. Ultimately, that is where we want people to end up: independent in their own homes, as far as possible. I wonder if the Secretary of State could reassure me about some elements of the plan for the NHS to procure care beds. Where does he envisage staff coming from? If it is from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 (21 Dec 2022)

Ben Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, whether he plans to (a) repeal, (b) reform and (c) retain the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016.

Illegal Immigration (13 Dec 2022)

Ben Bradley: It was an accident.

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Driving Instruction: Costs ( 6 Dec 2022)

Ben Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has plans to support people with the cost of driving lessons; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of supporting people with the cost of driving lessons on employment opportunities for those people.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Social Services: Finance (24 Nov 2022)

Ben Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to delay the charging reforms for social care in order to help Local Authorities to manage the costs and pressures of care delivery.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Social Services: Finance (24 Nov 2022)

Ben Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will provide funding to fully cover the additional costs of (a) changing the social care charging regime and (b) increasing the number of people eligible for local authority care.


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