Oral Answers to Questions

Lauren Sullivan Excerpts

Wednesday 4th June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Kirsty McNeill]

We are in conversation with all the relevant parties, but yes, we would like an increase in trade, and in the transport infrastructure that supports it.

[Dr Lauren Sullivan (Gravesham) (Lab)]

7. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to regenerate town centres in Scotland.

[Becky Gittins (Clwyd East) (Lab)]

9. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to regenerate town centres in Scotland.

[Dr Sullivan]

Does the Secretary of State agree that it was astonishing that the SNP voted against the £8 million to regenerate Hamilton town centre and that only Labour’s Davy Russell will stand up for local people, jobs and services?

[Ian Murray]

I have brought glasses to see if I can find an ounce of credibility in the SNP’s candidate in Hamilton for voting against that £8 million. The SNP candidate is a councillor from Cambuslang who stood for election twice in Rutherglen, sought selection in Shettleston and then voted against £8 million for the Hamilton town centre before seeking selection there. In Scotland, we are allowed to elect councillors with a single transferable vote; she appears to be the SNP’s single transferable councillor.