Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Lindsay Hoyle

Monday 22nd April 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Secretary of State, that is completely outrageous, after I had just said that we are on topicals. Please do not take advantage of your own Members. It is not fair to them and it is not fair to the rest of the Chamber.

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)]

T5. What steps is my right hon. Friend taking to attract long-term landlords back to small coastal towns?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 19th September 2023 Commons Chamber

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)]

2. What assessment she has made of the potential implications of the outcome of the contracts for difference allocation round 5 on the future development of floating offshore wind.

[Mr Speaker]

I welcome the Secretary of State.

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[Claire Coutinho]

I know that as chair of the all-party group on the Celtic sea my hon. Friend is a long-standing supporter of offshore wind. We have announced that AR6 will open in March 2024 and we have published an indicative timetable. We are supporting research and development in floating wind technology via the floating offshore wind demonstration programme, announcing up to £160 million in capital grant funding.

[Mr Speaker]

Can we work to the order, as it is a grouped question? The question should not be answered in that way. Selaine Saxby should be asking a direct question.

[Selaine Saxby]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am keen to understand better what more can be done to assist floating offshore wind in AR6 following what happened in AR5.

Points of Order

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 22nd March 2023 Commons Chamber

[Selaine Saxby]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) raised the issue of investment at one of my excellent North Devon schools, without prior notification of me or the school. Having spoken directly to the school and local education authority this morning, it appears that the information presented was, at best, misleading. The school has an extensive works programme and plans to expand its capacity. The timing of future works is being determined around the best interests of the pupils and the staff, with professional advice, and is certainly not held up by a lack of funding. As a former teacher, I find it deeply disturbing that Liberal Democrat MPs are prepared to use schools outside their constituencies as political pawns in this place. Might you advise how best to correct the record and ensure that this situation is not repeated?

[Mr Speaker]

I presume that the hon. Lady let the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) know that she was going to raise her point of order.

[Selaine Saxby]

indicated assent.

[Mr Speaker]

I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of the point of order. She assures me that she has given notice to the hon. Member for Twickenham. As she knows, the Chair is not responsible for the accuracy of Members’ contributions in the Chamber. If a Member has made a mistake, I encourage that Member to correct the record at the earliest opportunity. The hon. Member has rightly put it on the record so that we all know the situation.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 19th October 2022 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. When somebody is answering the question, will Members please wait until it has been completed? Mr Davies was answering Mr David’s question. I call Selaine Saxby.

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)]

10. What assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of establishing floating offshore wind locations in the Celtic sea.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 28th April 2022 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Mr Richard Holden—not here, again.

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)]

4. To ask the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England is taking to help create affordable and sustainable housing on its lands.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 23rd March 2021 Commons Chamber

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)]

Country Cousins is an English language school in Ilfracombe in my constituency that every year brings students to North Devon as part of the 550,000 international students who visit the UK to study English, bringing in £1.4 billion and 35,000 jobs to our economy. English language schools were viable, profitable businesses before the pandemic, greatly contributing to their local economies and culture. I am sure my hon. Friend the Minister agrees that, given the right support they will be again. However, many of them have been excluded from the Government’s business rates relief for the next financial year and are struggling. Will my hon. Friend consider committing BEIS to work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to look at expanding the eligibility for this—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Far too long.

Covid-19 Update

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 15th October 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We have lost Rosie Cooper as the connection has gone down, so we will go to Selaine Saxby in the south-west.

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con) [V]]

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Opposition should not play politics with people’s lives and livelihoods? A national circuit-break lockdown is not the answer, particularly for areas such as my North Devon constituency, where covid cases per 100,000 are still fewer than 40.