Flooding

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Tim Roca

Monday 6th January 2025 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

I call Tim Roca, member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.

[Tim Roca (Macclesfield) (Lab)]

I join both Front-Benchers in paying tribute to the communities, volunteers and neighbours who helped each other with the floods over recent days. Communities affected in my part of the world, particularly in Poynton and Bollington, all pulled together. The A555 road runs through a number of constituencies, and poor engineering has been raised several times as a reason why it floods, affecting local residents. Will the Minister join me in speaking with the Department for Transport and local authorities to try to get to the bottom of why it repeatedly ends up failing our residents?

[Emma Hardy]

I thank my hon. Friend for his work to support his community at this difficult time. If I can be of assistance in talking to the Department for Transport, of course I will be.

Business of the House

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Tim Roca

Thursday 14th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

As it is his birthday today, I call Tim Roca.

[Tim Roca (Macclesfield) (Lab)]

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—you have to use every trick you can, don’t you? [Laughter.]

In my constituency, many residents are worried about plans for flood alleviation works at Poynton pool, a much-loved beauty spot where local campaigners—the friends of Poynton pool—have raised real issues about the cost and the flawed nature of the underlying rationale. Will my right hon. Friend please make time to debate how we ensure that communities are properly listened to and that local authorities and the Environment Agency take local views on board?

NHS Dentistry: Rural Areas

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Tim Roca

Tuesday 5th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Tim Roca (Macclesfield) (Lab)]

I share the astonishment of other Members that not a single Conservative Member is here, in a debate on NHS dentistry in rural areas. I am a bit old-fashioned and I want a functioning Opposition. It is sad that they are not here to take part in this debate. When I contacted surgeries in Macclesfield to find out the state of play, 15 said that they do not accept NHS patients at all. That is the legacy that the Conservatives have left us. Can the Minister confirm that the Government will move urgently and quickly on NHS dentistry reform?

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. Interventions should be short, and the Minister must respond to the Member whose debate it is.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Tim Roca

Monday 9th September 2024 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

We are moving on to topicals; the questions will be short, and the ministerial responses will be snappy.

[Tim Roca (Macclesfield) (Lab)]

T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.