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Dan Jarvis Excerpts
Monday 16th May 2022

(2 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dan Jarvis Portrait Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab)
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I am sure that the Secretary of State will want to acknowledge the increasingly important role played by metro Mayors. May I therefore encourage him to make contact with Mayor Tracy Brabin, the excellent metro Mayor for West Yorkshire who now chairs cross-party group of Mayors, the M10, to ensure the closest working relationship between national, regional and local government?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I take the opportunity to thank the hon. Gentleman for his years of service as metro Mayor for South Yorkshire, during which, all party political differences aside, he did a superb job. I also congratulate his successor, Oliver Coppard. I look forward to working with Oliver and, of course, Tracy Brabin in the years ahead.