Oral Answers to Questions

Kevin Foster Excerpts

Tuesday 7th February 2023 Commons Chamber

[The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (James Cartlidge)]

I answered the urgent question on this matter and said that we would consider what more can be done in these types of cases. That work is ongoing, but we will report in due course, when we have more to say.

[Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con)]

T7. I only have to look at the Bench behind my right hon. Friend to know that the needs of Torbay will be at the centre of the Treasury’s thinking. What fiscal steps will he take in response to the “Communities on the Edge” report produced by the Coastal Communities Alliance?

[The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (John Glen)]

I take that report and my hon. Friend’s advocacy for the needs of coastal communities seriously, and I look forward to meeting him shortly. Alongside the rural England prosperity fund, the £2.6 billion UK shared prosperity fund gives local leaders in coastal areas the freedom to target local issues, but I look forward to further conversations with him.