Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Monday 18th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I must say to the Minister that on Saturday at the Buckingham literary festival I met one of his constituents, and I told the constituent that the hon. Gentleman was a clever fellow.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

19. What steps are the Government taking to speed up the local planning process and make it more about delivering affordable housing and new homes than about narrow local or petty partisan politics?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Wednesday 13th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Pete Wishart. Not here.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

Fifteen months ago, the then Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromsgrove (Sajid Javid), called in the planned expansion of the Mall at Cribbs Causeway in my constituency. The plan represents huge economic benefit to the Bristol and south Gloucestershire area, and there are 3,000 construction jobs, 3,750 permanent jobs and 150 new homes at stake, as well as a significant amount of infrastructure investment. Will the Prime Minister urge the new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to start as he means to go on and make a good decision quickly?

Syria: De-escalation Zones

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Monday 26th February 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We are saving the hon. Gentleman up for the edification of the House.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary is correct in saying that, in the end, it will be a political and diplomatic solution, but do we not have a responsibility to demonstrate to the world that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated? At the very least, are limited strikes to deny the Assad regime the ability to continue this horror within our responsibility?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Wednesday 20th December 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I wish the hon. Member for Filton and Bradley Stoke (Jack Lopresti) and his hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Outwood (Andrea Jenkyns) all the best for their wedding on Friday of this week, which I look forward to attending.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

Q9. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I look forward to seeing you there. I am sure the Prime Minister agrees that defence of the realm and the protection of our people is the first duty of the Government. Would she further agree that any future Government who failed to support our armed forces, who wanted to abolish our nuclear deterrent and who sympathised with terrorists, would endanger our security as well as placing hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk up and down the country, as well as 12,000 in my constituency?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Tuesday 1st March 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Stella Creasy. Not here.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

13. What fiscal steps he is taking to help people keep more of their earnings.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Wednesday 11th June 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

On this question, Jack Lopresti.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

10. Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Invest NI on an excellent year for attracting investment into Northern Ireland, and does he agree that the Prime Minister’s decision to take the G8 to Northern Ireland in June and to attend the international investment conference in October has played a key role in helping that objective?

Business of the House

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Thursday 27th February 2014 Commons Chamber

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

I speak as a genuine working-class Conservative. [Interruption.] My local health authority is making a real mess of the reorganisation of health provision in my constituency, so could we have a debate on health provision across South Gloucestershire, especially in relation to Frenchay hospital, my local hospital?

[Mr Speaker]

Hon. Members should not be discourteous to the hon. Gentleman. I have known him for more than 20 years, and I can testify, from personal knowledge, that he was a distinguished ice-cream salesman in Bristol.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Lopresti and John Bercow

Monday 15th April 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I always enjoy the Minister’s answers and I listen to them very attentively, but today they are somewhat longer than were his speeches to Conservative student conferences, which we both attended together in 1985.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

The two local authorities in my area, South Gloucestershire council and Bristol city council, have yet to sign up to the community covenant scheme. What more can the Government do to ensure that local authorities sign up to the covenant as a matter of priority?