Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Patrick Hurley and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 10th September 2025 Commons Chamber

[Patrick Hurley (Southport) (Lab)]

6. What steps her Department is taking to hold technology companies accountable for the content on their platforms.

[Mr Speaker]

Minister, welcome.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Patrick Hurley and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 4th September 2025 Commons Chamber

[Patrick Hurley]

Over the summer, we saw the announcement of a £50 million investment into Southport’s waste water treatment works to reduce the number of sewage overflows to just three per bathing season, allowing Southport to once again become the jewel in the crown of the north-west coast. Does the Minister agree that that level of investment is very much needed after more than a decade of Tory neglect of our waterways, and that it shows the difference a town can see when it has a Labour MP, a Labour council, a Labour metro mayor and a Labour Government here in Westminster?

[Mr Speaker]

Minister, that is a tough one.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Patrick Hurley and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 25th June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Patrick Hurley]

Across the northern part of my constituency, from Marshside over to Hesketh Bank—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Members are not meant to walk in front of the Member who is speaking; it is discourteous. The hon. Member for Portsmouth North (Amanda Martin) deliberately looked and carried on.

[Patrick Hurley]

The mobile phone signal is uniformly terrible across the northern part of my constituency, meaning that my constituents are missing out on opportunities. Will the Minister work more closely with industry to identify and deal with those rural mobile blackspots to further the Government’s growth mission?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Patrick Hurley and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 22nd May 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

And obviously Frederick’s ice cream in Chorley.

[Patrick Hurley (Southport) (Lab)]

T4. Earlier this week, I attended the launch of the Independent Venue Community, which is a charity aiming to bring community activity into night-time music venues when they are usually closed. Does the Minister agree that such innovative thinking is beneficial to health and wellbeing, the arts sector more generally and town centre renewal? What support can the Department offer to see such schemes rolled out nationwide?