Guy Opperman: ...(POC) Laurieston Stockport Corby Leicester Charles Street Stretford Cosham Leicester Wellington Street Swindon Crawley (POC) Lewes Todmorden Crawley Forest Gate Littlehampton Wakefield Daventry Loughborough Wellingborough Dewsbury Market Harborough Weston Super Mare Didsbury Melton Mowbray Weybridge Drumchapel Minehead Weymouth Eastbourne Morley Woking...
Gavin Newlands: .... Scotland has more zero-emission buses on the road in a country that is a tenth of the size. On chargers, the Government launched Project Rapid, and the Labour Front Bencher, the hon. Member for Wakefield (Simon Lightwood), mentioned the number of chargers in the UK. Scotland already has 73% more rapid chargers per head than the rest of the UK. In the last quarter of last year, the...
Andrew Gwynne: I commend the powerful contributions from my hon. Friends the Members for Stretford and Urmston (Andrew Western), for Wakefield (Simon Lightwood), for Bristol South (Karin Smyth), for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley), for Easington (Grahame Morris), for Blackburn, for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) and for Putney (Fleur Anderson), as well as the hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper). We also...
Simon Lightwood: ...inundated with emails from constituents who, despite the heroic work of NHS staff, have had terrible experiences with the health service this winter. Let me share just a couple of accounts from Wakefield. A constituent contacted me after his wife had faced a gruelling 15-hour wait in Pinderfields A&E. Another was forced to wait for 11 hours while suffering with a twisted bowel. Another...
Simon Lightwood: The Government’s 25-year environment plan aims to deliver cleaner water for our communities. However, recent statistics show that the River Calder and the River Aire, which run through the Wakefield district, are the second and third most polluted waterways in England. The Office for Environmental Protection, the Government’s own regulator, has said that progress has fallen far short....
Lee Rowley: My hon. Friend is right. That was also the case in the recent Wakefield by-election, where I believe the Labour candidate was selected on the basis of photographic ID. What is good enough for the Labour party should be good enough to secure the integrity and sanctity of our ballot box more widely.
Rebecca Pow: ...the City of Wolverhampton) 918,531 West Northamptonshire Council 292,378 West Yorkshire Combined Authority (In partnership with councils for Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds City, and Wakefield) 220,457 Westminster City Council 72,521 Westminster City Council (Delivered through Cross River Partnership, in partnership with City of London Corporation, London Boroughs of...
Michael Gove: ...one of the welcome first invitations I accepted in this role. I say to the hon. Member for Hemsworth: let us work together in order to make sure that we can do more. Denise Jeffery, the leader of Wakefield Council, whom he mentioned, welcomed the levelling-up funding that we gave to Wakefield over all as good news, and education is improving across Wakefield. There are some outstanding...
Robert Jenrick: ...Helens 1 St. Helens 1 Stockport 1 Stockton-on-Tees 1 Sunderland 1 Surrey Heath 1 Swindon 2 Test Valley 1 Tewkesbury 1 TOTAL HOTELS 1 Tower Hamlets 3 Uttlesford 1 Wakefield 1 Waltham Forest 2 Warrington 1 Warwick 1 Welwyn Hatfield 1 West Berkshire 2 West Northamptonshire 1 Westminster 5 Wigan 1 Windsor and Maidenhead 1 Wirral...
Simon Lightwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 37614 on Schools: Buildings, which schools in Wakefield constituency had at least one construction element in (a) condition grade C and (b) condition grade D when that data was collated; and which of those schools (a) have already received funding from the School Rebuilding Programme and (b) are...
Simon Lightwood: Last month, Labour Councillor Jack Hemingway proposed a successful motion to Wakefield Council calling for urgent action on sewage discharges in our rivers and lakes. He spoke about the River Calder in my constituency, where, on a three-mile stretch from Horbury Bridge to the M1, there have been over 400 sewage and waste water discharges, pouring out the equivalent of 100 whole days a year....
Simon Lightwood: If you work here and you make your life here, you should pay your tax here. It is a simple proposition that I know people across the political divide in Wakefield agree with. We are in a cost of living crisis. I know how hard it is for people at the moment who are struggling to make ends meet. Mortgages are rising, rent and bills are going up, and the price of their weekly shop is higher than...
Sarah Jones: ...pictures in their communities of the effect of crime. The hon. Member for Ipswich (Tom Hunt) talked about the fear that people have about going into town centres. My hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Simon Lightwood) talked about the number of arrests having halved nationally since 2010 and how, in his survey, only 8% feel safer than they did in 2010. My hon. Friend the Member for...
Mike Kane: I rise to speak in favour of amendment 63 and new clause 8. My hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield gave specific examples of deductions made by Irish Ferries and P&O; as he said, this is all about compliance. In his nine-point plan, the right hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps), now the Business Secretary, pledged to involve His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in ensuring...
Richard Holden: ...very positive. The Transport Secretary is also hoping to visit France at some point in the not-too-distant future. My hon. Friend the Member for Dover and the hon. Members for Easington and for Wakefield mentioned deductions. We will have a proper public consultation on the draft regulations in this space. I have already noted—as I hope hon. Members have—the Low Pay Commission’s...
Nick Gibb: ...of State’s visits, her fellow Ministers in the Department have also visited a variety of providers. These include Thomas Jones Primary School in Notting Hill, Simpson’s Lane Primary Academy in Wakefield, Norton Hill School in Somerset, Thomas Becket Catholic School in Northampton, Lycée Camille-Sée in Paris, Guiseley School in Leeds, Michaela Community School in Wembley, Royal Docks...
Simon Lightwood: Less than half of Wakefield’s children managed to see an NHS dentist last year. My constituent Mr Faqirzai’s six-year-old daughter has never seen an NHS dentist. She has 10 teeth that are black with decay and is often crying in pain. Her father feels helpless. He has called every dentist in Wakefield for a place but has not managed to secure one. More than 25% of five-year-olds in...
Simon Lightwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises in Wakefield constituency are receiving the correct level of support under the Energy Bill Relief Scheme.
Simon Lightwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many SMEs in Wakefield constituency have received Government support in the last 12 months.
Simon Lightwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with businesses in Wakefield on the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on those businesses.