Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Rebecca Smith Excerpts
Thursday 10th July 2025

(1 day, 15 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Joe Robertson Portrait Joe Robertson (Isle of Wight East) (Con)
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14. What progress he has made on publishing a tracking dashboard for the plan for change metrics.

Rebecca Smith Portrait Rebecca Smith (South West Devon) (Con)
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17. What progress he has made on publishing a tracking dashboard for the plan for change metrics.

Pat McFadden Portrait The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Pat McFadden)
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Our plan for change is already delivering for the British people, as the Minister without Portfolio, my right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham West and East Dulwich (Ellie Reeves), has just said: wages up more in the first 10 months of our Government than in 10 years under the previous Government; a new nuclear age with £14 billion committed to building Sizewell C as a critical part of our clean energy transition; and NHS waiting lists down by more than 200,000 for the first time in years. What a contrast to the record of the Conservatives.

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Pat McFadden Portrait Pat McFadden
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I hear a cry for more delivery statistics, so let me help the hon. Member out. We have also recruited 1,500 new GPs, deported 30,000 people with no right to be here, and expanded free school meals to lift 100,000 children out of poverty. He is welcome.

Rebecca Smith Portrait Rebecca Smith
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The Government are clearly very happy to claim that all is rosy after their first year in power, yet on the ground in my constituency and around the country, the opposite story is being told. The Government’s policies are hitting my constituents hard—whether it is the impact of increased national insurance contributions on local charities, the prospect of more red tape for landlords, or moving the goalposts for the most vulnerable. Given the Government’s amazing claims, why are they so reticent to share the plan for change metrics in one place, so that the good people up and down the United Kingdom can see the reality of this Labour Government in hard facts?

None Portrait Hon. Members
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