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HANSARD Community Sport FacilitiesI absolutely agree. Of course, communities know best. Communities know what works; local people know what works, and empowering them to get involved in their local sports…04 Mar 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Local GovernmentI enthusiastically welcome the statement, and the great quality of consultation and ambition behind it. I particularly welcome what it means for Lancashire. We have been left…05 Feb 2025HANSARDApprenticeshipsI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Andrew Pakes) for securing this important debate. In the interest of time, I will focus on one issue: the awareness of…04 Feb 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThis week, I met a constituent, Bradley Price, who has recently taken up a degree apprenticeship with Nuclear Transport Solutions. We talked about the excellent transferable…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Road Safety: SchoolsWill the hon. Member give way?29 Jan 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ9. As you well know, Mr Speaker, Lancashire is a wonderful county, full of great businesses and hard-working people, yet for too long we have been held back by an outdated…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Road Safety: SchoolsI very much appreciate you allowing me to speak, Ms Jardine, given that I was late to the debate. I thank the hon. Member for Chester South and Eddisbury (Aphra Brandreth) for…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversWill the hon. Member give way?28 Jan 2025HANSARD Education, Health and Care PlansIn the interests of time, I will just endorse so many of the comments made today. It is fantastic to see the passion and commitment of so many Members here, as well as the passion…22 Jan 2025HANSARDBusiness of the HouseSeemingly unending roadworks in Rossendale and Darwen are causing massive disruption to residents and businesses. Lane rental schemes, in which companies are charged for the time…16 Jan 2025HANSARD Local Government ReorganisationI associate myself with the excellent remarks of my Lancashire colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for South Ribble (Mr Foster), and I thank the Minister for recognising the…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWith the new year comes the new year’s honours list. Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating my friend and constituent Barry Hyde on being awarded the British empire…09 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyI will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Peter Prinsley).07 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyMy hon. Friend raises a hugely important issue about the regulation of commercial vehicles, and the level of responsibility that companies and employers take for their drivers is…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyAbsolutely. This is a hugely important issue and, as in many other areas, we know the solutions. Fantastic work is done by organisations such as Active Travel England that detail…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyAbsolutely, and those committees feel particularly vulnerable and under threat. The issue is that mixture of rural roads coupled with the speed limits and then compact villages…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyAbsolutely. I will touch on this later, but I feel that devolution and local government reorganisation create a huge opportunity to ensure new levels of co-operation between…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyI agree entirely. Again, it is devastating for communities to raise those issues repeatedly, stridently and sometimes desperately, yet feel that they are not being heard. The…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyAgain, I agree 100% with my hon. Friend. The role of communities is absolutely vital.07 Jan 2025HANSARD Road SafetyI fully agree with the hon. Gentleman—indeed, that is the main subject that I will try to focus on today. It is hugely important that we listen to our communities, because in the…07 Jan 2025