Business of the House

Marion Fellows Excerpts
Thursday 22nd June 2023

(10 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Marion Fellows Portrait Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP)
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My question is about redundancy modification orders again, I am afraid. On 3 May, I received a response from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities saying:

“Announcements will be set out in the usual way.”

Will the Leader of the House explain what that actually means, considering that I first raised the question of redundancy modification orders in this place on 22 March 2018?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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I thank the hon. Lady for her question, and also for her diligence in pursuing this matter. My team works very hard with Departments and parliamentary teams to ensure that they understand what Members need and why. The moral of the story is that if you send a one-line reply after a Member has been contacting your Department for many months, the Leader of the House will insist that an official from your Department meets with the hon. Lady so that she can be properly briefed on the matter.