Results 61–80 of 11610 for wakefield

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Universal Credit ( 8 Mar 2023)

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...

Decarbonising Rural Transport — [Geraint Davies in the Chair] ( 7 Mar 2023)

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...

NHS Workforce Expansion (28 Feb 2023)

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...

NHS Workforce Expansion (28 Feb 2023)

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...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (23 Feb 2023)

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....

Voter Identification (21 Feb 2023)

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.

Written Ministerial Statements — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Funding for Local Authorities to tackle air pollution ( 9 Feb 2023)

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...

Local Government Finance ( 8 Feb 2023)

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...

Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Hotels ( 8 Feb 2023)

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...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Leeds West ( 8 Feb 2023)

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...

Business of the House ( 2 Feb 2023)

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....

Non-domicile Tax Status (31 Jan 2023)

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...

Crime and Neighbourhood Policing (31 Jan 2023)

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...

Public Bill Committee: Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]: Clause 5 - Requirement to Provide Information (17 Jan 2023)

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...

Public Bill Committee: Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 - Power to request declaration (17 Jan 2023)

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...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Educational Institutions: Domestic Visits (13 Jan 2023)

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...

Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Jan 2023)

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...

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy Bill Relief Scheme: Wakefield (22 Dec 2022)

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.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Small Businesses: Wakefield (21 Dec 2022)

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.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Business: Wakefield (21 Dec 2022)

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.


<< < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >>

Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.