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Debate between Oliver Ryan and Lindsay Hoyle
Tuesday 9th September 2025

(1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lucy Rigby Portrait The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Lucy Rigby)
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Our financial services growth and competitiveness strategy sets out the Government’s 10-year plan for the sector, making clear our ambition that, by 2035, the UK will be the global location of choice for financial services firms to invest, grow and sell their services throughout the UK and to the world. To support this ambition, the Government announced the Leeds reforms, which are the most wide-ranging package of reforms to financial services regulation in a decade. The reforms will turbocharge growth, put more money in the pockets of working people and create more good, skilled jobs right across the country.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I welcome you to your new role.

Oliver Ryan Portrait Oliver Ryan
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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 Oliver Ryan and Lindsay Hoyle
Monday 9th December 2024

(10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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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 Portrait Oliver Ryan (Burnley) (Lab/Co-op)
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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?