Results 1–20 of 53 for london speaker:Lucy Powell

Business of the House (14 Mar 2024)

Lucy Powell: ...to hear “as parliamentary time allows” when there is an abundance of it. Do we really need time on the Floor of the House for so many statutory instruments or Committee stage of the Pedicabs (London) Bill? The Government have the time, but on those issues and more they do not have the support of their own side. It is as if they do not have the numbers. With every week that passes,...

Business of the House (29 Feb 2024)

Lucy Powell: ...in calling it out. To that end, I hope she will take this opportunity to say what is very clear for all to see, that the comments of the hon. Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson) about the Mayor of London were racist and Islamophobic. Does the Leader of the House agree that we need to uphold the highest standards of conduct towards one another, and that highly personalised and wrong-headed...

Business of the House (14 Sep 2023)

Lucy Powell: ...want to sweep this under the carpet, but families will feel the bite when their energy bills hit the mat. Offshore wind is supposed to be the UK’s leading light. Some 80% of the jobs are outside London. What does the Government’s failure say to those communities? All around the world, Governments are getting ahead in the race for green jobs; meanwhile, this Government have presided...

Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (17 Apr 2023)

Lucy Powell: ...national research cloud and data trusts could help small businesses and not-for-profit organisations access data and compete with the giants. Citymapper is a great example, as it used Transport for London’s open data to build a competitor to Google Maps in London. Open approaches to data will also provide better oversight of how companies use algorithms, and of the impact on the rest of...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Income Tax (Charge) (20 Mar 2023)

Lucy Powell: ...the real problem. Technology should be a great leveller, but that will not happen by accident. We need to plan to ensure that the benefits of the digital economy are not concentrated only in London and the south-east, and that we take advantage of our great potential ingenuity and creativity in the rest of the UK. We need to boost tech adoption. We have one of the worst long tails of...

Channel 4 Privatisation (14 Jun 2022)

Lucy Powell: ..., Channel 4’s headquarters continue to be based in Leeds and its remit ensures that it continues as a public service publisher-broadcaster, commissions over 50 per cent of its content outside London, continues its significant investment in new independent British films and funds quality news content which is aired at prime time. I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’...

Channel 4 Privatisation (14 Jun 2022)

Lucy Powell: ...part of our creative ecosystem? Channel 4’s public service remit is integral to this success. It is a driver of levelling up in the creative industries, which have all too often been focused in London. With more than half its commissions outside London, and with headquarters in Leeds, Channel 4 supports thousands of jobs in Yorkshire and across the nations and regions. Film4 has built on...

Channel 4 Privatisation (14 Jun 2022)

Lucy Powell: ...instead require Channel 4 simply to meet a 25% quota, which would be significantly lower than the 100% it does today. On levelling up, the Government are promising only 35% of production outside London and 9% outside England. This is a dramatic cut to the current levelling up budget. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) has just said, the new remit will not...

Channel 4 Privatisation (14 Jun 2022)

Lucy Powell: ..., no support from advertisers and very little support in Parliament. The big winners from her policy will be the big US tech and media companies; the losers will be British creative jobs outside London, British independent film, British independent production companies and Britain’s creative economy. This cultural vandalism does not get modern Britain and does not understand how best to...

Channel 4 Privatisation (27 Apr 2022)

Lucy Powell: ...the 60,000 consultation responses, but my understanding is that the vast majority were against any sale. Is it to help level up the country? Given that Channel 4 commissions half its budget outside London, creating a pipeline of talent across the nations and regions, and stimulating the creative economy in places such as Leeds, Glasgow and Bristol, of course it is not. Is it to create more...

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: UK Film and TV Production (10 Feb 2022)

Lucy Powell: ...or a curse, given that some of her recent performances have had—how shall we describe them—mixed reviews. Our public service broadcasters are responsible for two thirds of commissions outside London, and provide a pipeline of skilled and talented workers across our regions and nations. With programming that is sold around the world, they underpin our incredibly successful creative...

Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge) ( 1 Nov 2021)

Lucy Powell: ...during the pandemic, published just last week, shows the stark regional inequalities, with children in the north-east and Yorkshire and the Humber losing 15 times more learning than those in London, but that was not referred to in the Budget. Its stark findings should be at the heart of any Budget that claims to be levelling up. The Government cannot level up without a serious programme of...

[Christina Rees in the Chair] (14 Sep 2021)

Lucy Powell: ...been incredibly slow in using the stick they kept threatening, leaving many to disappear before they are made to pay. According to the G15—an umbrella group of the biggest housing associations in London—associations have set aside nearly £3 billion for historical remediation costs. In contrast, the UK’s largest developers have collectively set aside half a billion pounds—the...

Affordable and Safe Housing for All (18 May 2021)

Lucy Powell: ...-style cladding and has broken the market in flats across the country. Without serious intervention, the nightmare will continue for leaseholders and tenants for years to come. The fire in east London two weeks ago should have been a wake-up call—if the Secretary of State needed another—to tell him that his hands-off approach just is not working. Thankfully there were no fatalities,...

Charity-funded Medical Research — [Esther McVey in the Chair] (24 Nov 2020)

Lucy Powell: ... the Member for Bolton West (Chris Green) said, it can and does play a key role in reducing some regional inequalities and, with more than half of medical research coming from charities outside London and the south-east, in the so-called levelling up agenda by contributing to regional economic growth. Charities have a better record in this respect than Government research funding, under...

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Business Growth: North of England (11 Jun 2019)

Lucy Powell: ...that the current Prime Minister banned all mention of the northern powerhouse when she took office and that most of the candidates to succeed her are southern MPs, and one is a former Mayor of London, is there not a real risk that the northern powerhouse agenda will fall off a cliff with a new Tory Prime Minister?

Written Answers — Department for Education: Academies: Autism (22 May 2019)

Lucy Powell: ...of State for Education, what discussions (a) he (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with AET on the benchmarking exercise for AET secondary schools in London; and whether his Department approved benchmarking process; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the benchmark against which AET secondary schools in London are being assessed.

Equitable Life: Maintained Nursery Schools (31 Jan 2019)

Lucy Powell: ...Association has found that 61% of local authorities fear that maintained nursery schools will close unless the Government provide additional funding, and that fear is echoed in a report by London councils. I sent both reports to the Minister before Christmas. We have heard time and again that Ministers are committed to keeping maintained nursery schools open, but those schools cannot wait...

Points of Order: Online Forums (11 Sep 2018)

Lucy Powell: ...content; to require platforms to publish information about such forums; and for connected purposes. On 18 June 2017, Darren Osborne drove a van into a crowd of people gathered outside a north London mosque, killing one man and injuring 12 people. He had also intended to murder the Leader of the Opposition and the Mayor of London. Just one month earlier, Osborne was a different person with...

Business of the House: National Policy Statement: Airports (25 Jun 2018)

Lucy Powell: ...itself. I am for national infrastructure projects. I think that they boost jobs and growth—in this case, high-quality jobs—directly and indirectly. The economic benefits of a hub airport in London are unquestionable, which is why trade unions such as Unite and the GMB are in favour. We must also remember that that capacity would go elsewhere if it was not at Heathrow. Obviously, there...


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