Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mary Glindon and Ian Lavery

Tuesday 16th April 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) (Lab)]

2. What estimate she has made of the number of households that were in fuel poverty in winter 2023-24.

[Ian Lavery (Wansbeck) (Lab)]

24. What estimate she has made of the number of households that were in fuel poverty in winter 2023-24.

Britishvolt

Debate between Mary Glindon and Ian Lavery

Wednesday 25th January 2023 Commons Chamber

[Ian Lavery]

Thanks for that intervention. The supply chain is so, so important. Britishvolt suggested at the time that there would be 3,000 jobs created at the site and 5,000 jobs created in the supply chain. That would have been felt throughout the whole of our region in the north-east and probably further afield.

Links with Nissan would be brilliant. We need to take a leaf out of Nissan’s book in the way it has operated in the north-east for so many years. We were hoping to see some sort of link. Nissan is looking towards an on-site gigafactory with Envision AESC, which is in progress as we speak.

[Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) (Lab)]

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government seem to have forgotten and neglected the area north of Teesside? This great part of our region, whether it is Tyneside, Northumberland or Wearside, always seems to be forgotten. We were forgotten when it came to a freeport, levelling up and now Britishvolt, which, as my hon. Friend says, would have created jobs across the region and given it a brighter future.

[Ian Lavery]

That is very, very well put. People in our region are very much aware that there has been investment in Teesside. I welcome every penny coming into the region, by the way—every single ha’penny of investment we can get—but it has to be further afield than just one particular pocket of the north-east region. As my hon. Friend says, there has been a complete lack of investment in our region and it has been left behind for decades now. That is just not acceptable any more. This is the idea that could have transformed and changed that for a lot of the people we proudly represent. People were excited by the thought they actually had the potential to get a decent job with good wages, terms and conditions.