Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Peter Prinsley and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 8th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Peter Prinsley (Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket) (Lab)]

I am delighted to inform the Secretary of State that the long-awaited footbridge with lifts has finally been installed at Stowmarket station and is due to be commissioned very soon—

[Mr Speaker]

But!

[Peter Prinsley]

But indeed. [Laughter.] There remain several hazardous crossings on the busy east-west line between Ipswich and Cambridge, including at Thurston, where pedestrians are obliged to walk across the track. Does the Secretary of State agree that we must support all initiatives to improve the safety of such crossings?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Peter Prinsley and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 5th June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Hopefully Lancashire will help with that with the new centre at Samlesbury.

[Peter Prinsley (Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket) (Lab)]

3. What progress he has made on joining up government.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Peter Prinsley and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 18th March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Peter Prinsley]

Small modular reactors, as the Minister says, will play an important part in delivering clean, cheap and secure energy across this country. However, current rules require that any reactor must apply for regulatory justification, as if nuclear power was an entirely new practice instead of an existing one. That delays reactors getting online and lowering energy bills for people across the country, including in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, by up to two years. Will the Secretary of State consider working with his Cabinet colleagues to simplify the system and recognise that nuclear energy technology is an existing practice, thereby accelerating the deployment of small modular reactors?

[Mr Speaker]

Another Adjournment debate.