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Westminster Hall
Dentistry: Access for Cancer Patients - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) This is not a hypothetical scenario; it is the experience for people in rural communities such as Devon - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Given the much wider availability of NHS dentists in Scotland, people are able to access such services - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Cancer patients, new mothers, those in rural communities and millions of others are being failed every - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Simon Jupp (Con - East Devon) I conducted a broadband survey in East Devon, which showed that some rural parts of my constituency sadly - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Why should people living in rural areas be second-class citizens when it comes to mobile phone coverage - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) We agree; that is why we have the shared rural network programme, which is dealing with a lot of those - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We know how vital bus services are for communities right across the country. - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero and for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Post Office Network Subsidy Scheme (Amendment) Order 2024 - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) There are currently over 6,000 rural branches—54% of the total network. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) It is about maintaining services, including rural services. - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) One of those is maintaining rural branches. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Waste and Food Distribution - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) done that.My organisation, the Scottish Pantry Network, believes that dignity for people accessing our services - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) As a very rural MP, I occasionally see different surplus food products in my constituency. - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Jo Gideon) for securing this important debate.Food redistribution services - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) Perhaps the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Digital Skills and Careers - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) The UK boasts some of the most respected universities, and the largest financial services sector and - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) place on having a smartphone to access basic public services, if the economy of the future is to be - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) That is particularly important for people who live in rural areas, where digital access, ironically, - Speech Link
4: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) I am pleased that we have been able to work together to identify the key challenges for those from rural - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) We are supporting them by almost doubling funding for local stop-smoking services. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) It seems that even my former bête noire, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Speech Link
3: Steve Brine (Con - Winchester) I welcome the investment of £70 million a year for the next five years into stop-smoking services, but - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Those cuts have fallen disproportionately on local stop-smoking services, which are a vital component - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Official Controls (Fees and Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Draft Plant Health (Fees) (England) and Official Controls (Frequency of Checks) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) identity, physical and documentary checks on medium-risk goods, ensuring that the cost of plant health services - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) information it’s very difficult for them to plan ahead.”It slammed the Department for Environment, Food and Rural - Speech Link
3: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) article 81, including staff salaries, the cost of facilities and equipment, consumables and tools, services - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) I recognise that, in rural communities, recruitment and retention of staff is difficult and in the hon - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) and the examples she gives are exactly what the safer streets fund is for: bespoke, local, dedicated services - Speech Link
3: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley Central) The Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner said last year that our policing and security services - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Tom Byrne would do an excellent job of making sure that that maintains frontline services, which is exactly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) Communications, also known as Ofcom; the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, Ofgem; and the Water Services - Speech Link
2: Duke of Wellington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Even the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pledges in its Plan for Water—which was - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Points of Order - Tue 26 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) The Minister in the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs had written to me to suggest having - Speech Link
2: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) certain circumstances; to prohibit the installation of new electronic communications apparatus where services - Speech Link