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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office is pursuing that as a priority with the European Union, and - Speech Link
2: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) Many youth services and clubs in my constituency rely on indoor sports facilities in the winter, but - Speech Link
3: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) Salisbury is a market town with a cathedral and we would love to apply, but given all our world-leading - Speech Link
4: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) that every pound is spent better, with a particular focus on rebuilding those places and spaces that - Speech Link
5: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) , including me, and with staff. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Taxes - Wed 12 Nov 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Chris Vince (LAB - Harlow) promised, for the first time, a realistic and fully funded timetable for a new hospital for Harlow, with - Speech Link
2: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) A fifth of everyone who works in Gosport works in caring, leisure and other service occupations. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) volunteering, towards supporting sports clubs, charities, health forums and community organisations. - Speech Link
4: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) Let us open up a customs union with Europe and get our economy growing. Let us look to the future. - Speech Link
5: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) rushing in and out of his office with advice on various measures, and a day full of meetings trying - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) within a community and that there is adequate provision of facilities on this basis.By accepting this - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) our sports fields and physical activity spaces and facilities. - Speech Link
3: None with existing businesses and community facilities so that those businesses and facilities do not have - Speech Link
4: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) It is a lovely community and reasonably good for developing more homes and creating a community. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospitality Sector - Wed 03 Sep 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Brian Mathew (LD - Melksham and Devizes) and diverse role in the community, running a monthly “hub in the pub” event and helping with the yearly - Speech Link
2: Katie White (Lab - Leeds North West) This Government stepped in with a 40% discount for retail, hospitality and leisure properties, up to - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South and South Bedfordshire) 40% discount to retail, hospitality and leisure properties with a cash cap of £110,000 per business, - Speech Link
4: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) It is a community interest company, and it is doing fantastic stuff for our community and employing people - Speech Link
5: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) I have run a hospitality business, and with the front and back of house 12 hours a day, seven days a - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Defibrillators - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) Costs remain a major barrier, with community groups facing a cost of £2,500 per device and not getting - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Community groups, sports clubs and small businesses fundraising for devices face average VAT bills of - Speech Link
3: Anna Sabine (LD - Frome and East Somerset) This tax drives up costs, making it harder for schools, sports clubs, public buildings and community - Speech Link
4: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) That incident prompted a local campaign to fund a community defibrillator and train local people, myself - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I recognise that the Minister has put forward a drafting amendment and we are fine with that. - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) in a timely, straightforward and cost-effective way, in line with other utilities.I welcome the fact - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) friends Lord Swire and Lady Coffey and will end with a question for the Minister.There are environmental - Speech Link
4: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) and safety regulations with the need to build these facilities. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) clubs, educational programmes or leisure facilities”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 24 Jul 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) , generating real social cohesion and a shared sense of community. - Speech Link
2: None Defra continues to engage closely with industry, via a small abattoirs working group and a small abattoirs - Speech Link
3: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) This is consistent with the consenting process for pipelines and industrial facilities more broadly and - Speech Link
4: None A single day with a barrister—and a barrister is vital to pursue cases effectively in employment tribunals—costs - Speech Link
5: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) so forth.There is a better way: there should be a national scheme, with appropriate protections and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Tue 22 Jul 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon and Consett) We have a really powerful industrial past and a strong community spirit. - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) with a disability—and value for money. - Speech Link
3: Jodie Gosling (Lab - Nuneaton) , which was a great success, showcasing the role of sports in community cohesion and improving health - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) He would come into my office with a toasted teacake and a cup of tea and check that I was OK. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Swimming Facilities - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) Seventy-five per cent of grassroots sports clubs use leisure facilities to deliver social and sporting - Speech Link
2: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab - North Somerset) sport but as a life skill and a vital part of our community life. - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) community-owned pools, privately owned leisure facilities, school and sports club pools, and the Deepings - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) It would be much easier if I could meet her with a community group from the Deepings, and we can take - Speech Link
5: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley South) leisure facilities make to health and wellbeing. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 13 May 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None community, and(b) provide for one third of the financial benefits accruing to a community under this - Speech Link
2: Luke Murphy (Lab - Basingstoke) projects, sports clubs and leisure facilities. - Speech Link
3: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) , where community groups themselves could and should be delegated with the power to manage and distribute - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) built in a community, with all the disruption that goes with building that, wider community benefits - Speech Link
5: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) services in connection with certain schemes and orders on a cost-recovery basis. - Speech Link