Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Oliver Ryan

Wednesday 22nd April 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call the birthday boy, Oliver Ryan.

[Oliver Ryan (Burnley) (Lab/Co-op)]

Q12. Thank you, Mr Speaker—and a happy St George’s day for tomorrow too. In Burnley, Padiham and Brierfield, we have a large number of ex-industrial, derelict land sites crying out for regeneration and redevelopment. They are blighting communities and many are a fire risk. Our area of Britain needs housing—social, affordable, family, aspirational. We have the sites if the Prime Minister has the will, so will he back my campaign for a new regeneration house building programme for Burnley, Padiham and Brierfield, tackling these derelict sites to get us building, growing, and housing local people?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Oliver Ryan

Tuesday 9th September 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I welcome you to your new role.

[Oliver Ryan]

I also welcome my hon. Friend to her new role. Small businesses in Burnley, Padiham and Brierfield are the lifeblood of our community, providing jobs and livelihoods to our people. Growing manufacturers and exporters such as the brilliant Barnes Aerospace in Burnley are doing an excellent job at taking Britain across the world. Will the Economic Secretary set out what the Government are doing to support small and medium-sized business, particularly our manufacturers, with access to finance?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Oliver Ryan

Monday 9th December 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. It might be easier if I say it. One side says, “It’s all their fault,” and the other says, “They’ve been in power.” That is the answer to every question.

[Oliver Ryan (Burnley) (Lab/Co-op)]

I recently visited Heasandford primary school in my constituency, which is in a dire state. Will the Minister meet me and Lancashire county council to see what we can do to repair the school—the biggest in Lancashire by class number—and make sure that it is fit for children’s ambitions in Burnley?