Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ian Levy and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 13th December 2023 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Please, I cannot hear the question. Obviously there must have been something funny, but I didn’t hear it.

[Ian Levy]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. This Conservative Government have done more for the people of Blyth Valley than any other Government and have brought much needed investment in employment opportunities for my constituents, following decades of Labour neglect. Will my right hon. Friend please assure me that continuing to close the gap between the north and the south remains the Government’s highest priority?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ian Levy and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 3rd February 2022 Commons Chamber

[Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) (Con)]

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government’s investment of £96 billion in the railways is the biggest investment in the rail network ever? By reinstating the Northumberland line running through Blyth Valley to Newcastle—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. That is not related to the question about the DVLA. [Interruption.] One of us will have to sit down and I am not sitting down. I am sorry, but that is not even linked to the question. Supplementary questions must be linked to the original question tabled.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ian Levy and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 11th February 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

There is a little hiccup, I think. We are definitely going to have to move on.

[Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) (Con)]

What safety measures his Department plans to take to help ensure the 2021 local elections can take place during the covid-19 outbreak.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ian Levy and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 9th September 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Mr Blackford, you are a great Member of this House. You do the right things by this House, and I have accepted that you have withdrawn it.

[Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) (Con)]

Before being elected to represent Blyth Valley last year, I worked in mental health. Since October last year, there have been 120 suicides across the Northumbria police force area alone, and 24 deaths in Blyth. I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will agree that one death is one death too many. Will he join me in supporting World Suicide Prevention Day tomorrow and in acknowledging the fantastic work by the mental health charity Mind, as well as by ENGAGE and Davy Orr at Unit Twenty in Blyth?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ian Levy and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 10th June 2020 Commons Chamber

[Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) (Con)]

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Happy birthday from Blyth Valley, Mr Speaker. Does my right hon. Friend agree that to tackle the virus, so that we can all be safe from future waves of infection—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Just say “Question 1” for now.

[The Secretary of State for International Development (Anne-Marie Trevelyan)]

I want to put on the record that black lives matter. We must listen to those communities that face discrimination, and solve the unconscious biases that still create injustice and lost potential. My Department will redouble its efforts to drive out discrimination and support the poorest countries to achieve genuine mutual prosperity free of prejudice. That struggle for equality is exactly why it was so important last week that the UK brought together, via video link, the London 2020 global vaccine summit as part of a 60-country effort. A historic $8.8 billion was raised to vaccinate the world’s poorest people. Gavi will immunise 300 million more children as a result.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ian Levy and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 12th February 2020 Commons Chamber

[Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) (Con)]

Q12. Blyth has the potential to become one of the most strategically important ports in the UK for the export of renewable technology as well as wind turbines. Would my right hon. Friend consider visiting Blyth, where I am sure he would get a warm Northern welcome— rose— —and see for himself the strength of Blyth to become a freeport?

[Mr Speaker]

I think the Prime Minister had the answer ready.