Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Philip Davies Excerpts
Wednesday 26th October 2022

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Philip Davies Portrait Philip Davies  (Shipley)  (Con)
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Q4.   I am surprised to be asking a question, and I know you are shocked too, Mr Speaker, because I know that, like many others, you thought I would already have been offered a ministerial post.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Let me tell you, I didn’t hold my breath. [Laughter.]

Philip Davies Portrait Philip Davies
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Go figure, as Joe Biden might say.

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on becoming Prime Minister. He is absolutely the right person for the job and I wish him every success. He knows he has my full support. His two immediate predecessors made levelling up a key part of their agenda. Will he reaffirm his commitment to levelling up and start as he means to go on by approving the levelling-up fund bid for Bingley in my constituency?

Rishi Sunak Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his warm remarks. I can confirm that he must be the only person who texted me in the last 24 hours to say that he did not want a job. I can give him my cast-iron commitment to levelling up, particularly in Yorkshire, which he and I share. Obviously, he will know that I cannot comment on individual bids, but by the end of the year, an announcement is expected on the successful ones, and I wish him every luck with that.