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HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022Does the Minister accept that £19 million to £31 million is a bit of a spread? Can she tell us whether the Department has done an impact assessment or worked with those…28 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022Will the hon. Gentleman set out for the Committee what support was received from Lancashire County Council for taking Lancaster out of the historic county of Lancashire and…28 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022Would the Minister feel it appropriate to target the new local authorities on those savings? I have been involved in several devolution deals myself, so I can tell her that they…28 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022Will my hon. Friend set out the estimated savings that will result from moving from two-tier to one-tier government? I ask because it will be hugely significant to those of us in…28 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. I will speak very briefly to put on record my support for this piece of legislation. When I was northern…28 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022The hon. Gentleman is a proud northerner. I remind him that in those 12 years, we have done devolution deals for Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, North of Tyne,…28 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?28 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022I will not give way, because the shadow Minister would not give way to me. [ Laughter. ] Of course I will give way to him.28 Feb 2022HANSARDScience and Innovation: Levelling UpObviously, I welcome the targets to increase investment through levelling up in our regions, but the thing that really matters is not what the Government say in White Papers, but…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Levelling UpI welcome the White Paper. I am sure that the Secretary of State would acknowledge that delivering foreign direct investment is key to levelling up the north and beyond. Would he…02 Feb 2022HANSARDConduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South RuislipWill my right hon. and learned Friend give way?30 Nov 2021HANSARDConduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South RuislipOne thing that my right hon. and learned Friend has failed to mention and that I am sure he will want to take the opportunity to celebrate is the Government’s Borderlands deal.…30 Nov 2021HANSARDIntegrated Rail PlanWhat my constituents in Rossendale and Darwen would have liked to have seen in the integrated rail plan was a rail line from Manchester to Rawtenstall, but they did not see it.…29 Nov 2021HANSARD Funeral Director Services RegulationI beg to move, That this House has considered the regulation of the provision of funeral director services. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees, I think for…17 Nov 2021HANSARD Funeral Director Services RegulationThe Minister is talking about a set of standards and principles to which funeral directors should subscribe. Does he mean “should” subscribe or “must” subscribe?17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsIn July 2019, I was in Manchester when the Prime Minister committed to building a new line, Northern Powerhouse Rail, between Manchester and Leeds. That commitment was reaffirmed…17 Nov 2021HANSARD Funeral Director Services RegulationThe hon. Gentleman’s intervention highlights how complicated this space is. There are competing interests trying to become the regulator of choice. I am not proposing, and do not…17 Nov 2021HANSARD Funeral Director Services RegulationI thank my right hon. Friend for an excellent intervention. Picking up on both interventions, this is a very complicated space—the Department of Health and Social Care, of course,…17 Nov 2021HANSARD Funeral Director Services RegulationI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Everyone who has spoken today understands the brilliant work that the funeral and bereavement sector does on behalf of families, and it has…17 Nov 2021HANSARDCrown Court BacklogI will let you get the benefit of the applause, Mr Speaker. On a recent trip out with officers from the Waterfoot police station in Rawtenstall, one of the challenges they talked…09 Nov 2021