Edward Leigh
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(3 years, 5 months ago)
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Several hon. Members rose—
Sir Edward Leigh (in the Chair)
Order. We have 13 Back-Bench speakers. If there is to be any chance of everybody getting in, we will have to have a tight time limit. I will set it at three and a half minutes at the moment, but that may have to come down to three minutes. I would be grateful if speeches were kept below three minutes.
Tim Farron
Once the announcement was made, they did act swiftly, but I first raised the issue with the then junior planning Minister, who is now the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It took quite a long time to get to the stage where they made the announcement, but I thank the Minister anyway.
Sir Edward Leigh (in the Chair)
Minister, could you please give the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) a couple of minutes to make his closing remarks?
Sir Edward Leigh (in the Chair)
Thank you for a very good debate on the levelling-up fund—I wish that Gainsborough could get some levelling-up fund too, but that is not for me to say.
Question put and agreed to.
Resolved,
That this House has considered the levelling up agenda.