Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lisa Nandy and Alan Strickland

Thursday 28th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Alan Strickland (Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) (Lab)]

Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Newton Aycliffe youth football club on being runner-up in FA club of the year in Durham, and will she join me in congratulating all the parents, volunteers and young people involved in grassroots sports?

[Lisa Nandy]

I thank my hon. Friend for being such an outstanding champion of his community, and I extend my warmest congratulations to Newton Aycliffe. He is right to highlight the invaluable contribution that families make to the success of young people. They often pitch in as volunteers and coaches, and take children and young people to matches come rain or shine—I imagine that in his neck of the woods, like mine, it is more often rain than shine. I am really glad that they have such a good champion.