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HANSARDRural Connectivity6. What steps her Department is taking to improve rural connectivity.21 Feb 2024HANSARDRural ConnectivityIt is brilliant to hear about all of this progress. What assessment has the Minister made of the value for money cap in connecting the hardest-to-reach households and businesses,…21 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to tackle those junctions and make those improvements. It is not always about segregated or designated routes; often it is, but…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportMy hon. Friend makes an incredibly valid point. We need to encourage all local authorities to embrace the Bikeability training that is available to them, as she will know from the…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportMy hon. Friend raises a very good point about rurality, which was also raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberconwy (Robin Millar). People in rural areas are more dependent…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportTonight, I will speak about the benefits of walking and cycling. Let me quote Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportThe Minister is making an excellent point on the value of the great outdoors and being active. I know that this is not his Department’s responsibility, but does he agree that…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportMay I congratulate the Department, Bikeability and the wonderful Emily Cherry on recognising the difference that it can make to children with special educational needs and…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportYes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have been focusing on cycling so far, but I will come on to walking. I will entertain the House with my walking adventure, all the way…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportOf course that is needed for all ages; I welcome the hon. Member’s intervention. My point is that when resources are stretched and priorities need to be made, we should prioritise…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Walking and Cycling: Government SupportYes again. There is a lot of agreement in the House tonight, and enabling those routes to schools and tackling those junctions is primarily what Active Travel England will be…20 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. The Cumbrian Coast railway is vital to the energy coast, for both passengers and freight. I welcome the extra funding and services that Network North will bring, but could the…08 Feb 2024HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management SchemesI thank my right hon. Friend the Farming Minister for meeting my farmers in Wasdale last year. I am sure that sure the journey through the English Lake district was inspiration to…01 Feb 2024HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management Schemes7. What steps he is taking to support farmers through the environmental land management schemes.01 Feb 2024HANSARD Protecting and Restoring WetlandsBefore my hon. Friend comes on to her priorities, may I just set out how impressive she has been in persuading me, as a former Minister, and colleagues across the House of the…31 Jan 2024HANSARDHedgerows: Legal ProtectionThere has been an awful lot of good discussion about the importance of farming, but could I draw the Minister’s attention to the importance of encouraging gardeners? There are 30…24 Jan 2024HANSARDHedgerows: Legal ProtectionI thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Selaine Saxby), because I know from prior experience as the DEFRA Minister responsible for nature that she really is a hedgerow…24 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKThere is much talk about blast furnaces. May I remind the House that a blast furnace simply will not function without coking coal? West Cumbria Mining’s proposal for Woodhouse…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Civil Nuclear Road MapToday I am fighting back tears of joy and jubilation for this road map, because it is absolutely clear that we have a Minister and a Government who are utterly committed to…11 Jan 2024HANSARD COP28The commitment that 24 countries have made to triple nuclear energy capability by 2050 shows that the world has woken up to the most powerful, least land-taking, reliably proven…14 Dec 2023