Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Virginia Crosbie Excerpts
Wednesday 12th January 2022

(2 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We are supporting measures to retrofit homes up and down the country to improve insulation. We are also supporting people with the costs of their fuel, and we will continue to do that through the warm homes discount, the winter fuel allowance and all the other payments we make.

Virginia Crosbie Portrait Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn) (Con)
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Can the Prime Minister confirm to me and my Ynys Môn constituents that the UK Government are committed to at least one freeport in Wales? Will he update the House on how discussions are progressing with the Welsh Government?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is indeed talking to his counterparts in the Welsh Government about establishing a freeport in Wales. I urge our friends in the Welsh Government to agree those plans as a matter of urgency.