Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lucy Allan and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 16th November 2022 Commons Chamber

[Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con)]

Q3. Hope House Children’s Hospice provides dedicated end-of-life care to children from Telford and across Shropshire. This Sunday, Hope House is holding an online fundraiser called the Big Night In; it aims to beat last year’s target of half a million pounds. Among the fabulous prizes are premium tickets to the Telford steam railway polar express. The lucky winners will enjoy a Christmas adventure to the north pole, complete with hot chocolate, cookies, golden tickets, and the first gift of Christmas from Santa, which is the reindeer’s silver bell. Please will the Deputy Prime Minister log on to Hope House Children’s Hospice’s Big Night In this Sunday? If he is lucky enough to win a pair of tickets to the Telford polar express, I shall be delighted to go to the north pole with him.

[Mr Speaker]

She might want you to go there. Be careful!

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lucy Allan and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 14th June 2022 Commons Chamber

[Lucy Allan]

Orthopaedic surgery at the Princess Royal Hospital has still not restarted since the pandemic. That is causing huge suffering for those who have been waiting for surgery, in some cases for several years. A hip replacement is transformative to quality of life and reduces other care needs, but orthopaedic surgeons continue to be paid despite not operating, and no alternative is being offered to patients—they are not even being given an expected operation date. Will implementing the Messenger review require NHS leadership to be more accountable to the public so that decisions such as refusing to restart much-needed surgery can be challenged?

[Mr Speaker]

This is a strange grouping, but it is a very important question, so do answer it, please.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lucy Allan and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 7th December 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. He might want to apologise now—we cannot take so long on the first two questions from either Front Bench.

[Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con)]

T5. I thank the Chancellor for his hugely successful plan for jobs. I recently visited an organisation in Telford called Teach A Trade, which successfully trains long-term unemployed and older people changing careers to get gas and electrical qualifications, which are in short supply in my constituency. What is his Department doing to work with organisations such as Telford’s Teach A Trade to make these courses more accessible to more students? Can he please tell me what his Department can do to help Telford’s Teach A Trade so that it can expand the excellent work it is doing?