Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Simon Opher and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 3rd September 2026 Commons Chamber

[Dr Simon Opher (Stroud) (Lab)]

7. What steps she is taking to support lidos.

[Mr Speaker]

It helps if you get up to say the question number, Dr Opher.

[The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Lisa Nandy)]

I will get up, Mr Speaker. I thank my hon. Friend for his long-standing work on this—[Laughter.] Let me start again!

I thank my hon. Friend for his intense work on this issue. The Minister for sport will be delighted to meet him. However, my hon. Friend will know that lidos are a personal passion for me, and reversing the neglect of these much-loved community assets is something that this Government intend to make a priority. We will be in a position to say more about that shortly, but in the meantime I pay tribute to him and to my hon. Friends the Members for Peterborough (Andrew Pakes) and for Bournemouth West (Jessica Toale) for their campaign to ensure that lidos have their proper place in British public life.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Simon Opher and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 4th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Dr Opher]

I am proud that the Government have invested £250 million in putting solar panels on schools and hospitals. In Stroud, we have a programme whereby, through community energy funding, we will put solar panels on every school in the area. I was going to ask the Chancellor about Treasury rules that were blocking that, but I heard from her answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Sarah Russell) that that may no longer be the case. Will she confirm that that block has been removed?

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We are on topicals, so I need speedy questions.