Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Wendy Morton and Greg Smith

Thursday 23rd May 2024 Commons Chamber

[Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills) (Con)]

4. What steps she is taking to support the participation of women and girls in sport.

[Greg Smith (Buckingham) (Con)]

7. What steps she is taking to support the participation of women and girls in sport.

[The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Lucy Frazer)]

We have a number of individual initiatives to support the participation of women and girls in sport. The national physical activity taskforce is working across Government to ensure that women and girls get more active. We have established the Board of Women’s Sport to identify challenges and opportunities across women’s sport, and we are fully supporting Karen Carney’s recommendations to lift standards and deliver sustainable growth for women’s football.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Wendy Morton and Greg Smith

Thursday 3rd February 2022 Commons Chamber

[Greg Smith (Buckingham) (Con)]

T4. At a meeting I chaired between East West Rail and residents in the town of Winslow in my constituency whose houses back on to the new railway, we were disappointed to learn from East West Rail that it plans to launch with diesel-only trains borrowed from another railway. Will my hon. Friend make an intervention with East West Rail to ensure it launches with bi-mode trains that can run on battery where the railway comes close to people’s homes in towns such as Winslow and villages such as Verney Junction and Newton Longville?

[Wendy Morton]

I know that my hon. Friend takes a close interest in this issue on behalf of his constituents, as I would expect. I would be very happy to have a meeting with him, at which he can share with me some of the concerns he has on behalf of his constituents.