All 2 Debates between Andrew Percy and Matt Warman

National Grid Proposals: North East Lincolnshire

Debate between Andrew Percy and Matt Warman
Thursday 23rd May 2024

(7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Percy Portrait Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole) (Con)
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The Minister was very generous about me at the beginning of the debate, but what he missed out in his generosity was the fact that one of the biggest privileges I have had in this Parliament was living with him for a period as his flatmate. I should make it clear that I was the clean one.

The Minister is a great friend of mine, but he is also a very good Minister and a really decent chap—and obviously my two colleagues from north Lincolnshire, my hon. Friends the Members for Cleethorpes (Martin Vickers) and for Great Grimsby (Lia Nici), are fantastic champions for our area on this issue—

Matt Warman Portrait Matt Warman
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What at about the rest?

Andrew Percy Portrait Andrew Percy
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Of course there are those in broader Lincolnshire; I was talking about north Lincolnshire.

The really important point is the one that the Minister was making just now. Our constituents feel that this is something that has been done to them. They understand that we must increase our grid capacity, but they feel that it must be done in a way that makes them feel that they have had a voice, that it has not been done to them, and that every single option has been considered.

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Debate between Andrew Percy and Matt Warman
Thursday 1st July 2021

(3 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Percy Portrait Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole) (Con) [V]
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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, may I ask the Secretary of State how the shared rural network and other measures are finally going to get us the improvements in mobile phone coverage across north Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire that we so desperately still need?

Matt Warman Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Matt Warman)
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The shared rural network will eliminate the partial notspots across huge swathes of the country, particularly in Yorkshire and the Humber; it will take the region from 95% to 99% coverage from at least one operator, and from 81% to 90% coverage from all four operators. I know how hard my hon. Friend has been working on this issue, and I look forward to working with him to continue that progress.