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HANSARDSpending Review 2025Last week, we set out additional money for the Mayor of the West of England, and today we have announced a fourfold increase in local transport funding, which will be available…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for raising those concerns about schools in the Forest of Dean and that school in particular. The state that schools are in after 14 years of Conservative…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I am pleased that Stockton will be benefit from some of those investments, because pride in place is so important for all our communities. Some of the most deprived parts of the…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025Stories like that are exactly why the Deputy Prime Minister and I have prioritised investment in affordable homes. Nobody should have to live in those conditions in the 21st…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The changes we have made to the planning system and the changes we are making through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill provide the opportunity to build. Today, we have backed…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The investment we are putting into Derby and Nottinghamshire is significant, with small modular reactors, investment in defence and investment in fusion, creating good jobs and…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for the passion with which she speaks about schools, which is something I very much share. That is why we are rolling out breakfast clubs at primary schools…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The Prime Minister was in Ipswich yesterday with my hon. Friend to visit a local college. He came back from that visit even more determined to crack on and build Sizewell nuclear…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025This Labour Government are giving real-terms increases in spending to local authorities every year. Compare that with the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Administration from 2010 to…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I know that there is great need for affordable homes in Gravesham. With today’s spending review, as well as the planning reforms we have introduced and continue to…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The hon. Lady makes a really important point. Every single MP in this House will have heard harrowing stories of parents desperate to get support for their kids with special…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025Okay, that is just the Tories—well, they need to explain how they would pay for it. I appreciate the fact that the hon. Lady welcomes some of our policies, but the job of the…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. I know she has not had a chance to look at the figures yet, but it is not right to say that there are real-terms cuts to public services.…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025This will be a scheme operated from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. We announced some of the neighbourhoods that will benefit from that investment…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The work that this Labour Government are doing will reduce inequality. We are giving a pay rise to millions of workers and creating defence jobs that pay a decent wage, and GB…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025Well, we did announce two new railway stations in Wales today with that £445 million. In the 10-year infrastructure strategy, which we publish next week, we will be setting out…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025We as a Government were proud to be able to step in and save British Steel at Scunthorpe, and again I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Scunthorpe, but it is not just…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025My right hon. Friend is right. We are backing innovation, skills and infrastructure, because we are backing British business. We are also cutting red tape, as we did yesterday,…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Education Committee, for her question. I appreciate her welcoming the investment in children’s social care, in skills and in…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question and the way in which he has put it. I was pleased to be able to announce the settlement for Northern Ireland in today’s spending…11 Jun 2025