Speeches by Hall.

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Things are deeply unfair as they stand. Delivering fair public spending in all our regions is urgently needed. We cannot grow our economy using a toolkit that still assumes that the south-east is the default. We need a Green Book that reflects the reality of 2025, not the London-…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. For too long, my constituents in Warrington South have been told to wait their turn—for infrastructure, for investment and for opportunity. This Labour Government were elected to change the way this country works, and nowhere is that more urgently needed …”

“Community pharmacy funding is at a critical juncture, with many pharmacies in my constituency facing financial challenges. With running costs increasing and uncertainty around the date of the upcoming settlement, community pharmacies are concerned that there may be disruption to their business. What steps is the Depart…”

“8. What recent progress his Department has made on implementing the hub and spoke model for community pharmacy.”

“You said that it is paused at the moment. How far along in that process are we in terms of the alternative?”

“Thank you for that. In terms of delivering the analytical services and providing the capabilities for the site, and fully addressing the risks at the current site, you are confident that there is an alternative.”

“I would like to discuss the replacement analytical project. As is noted in the NAO’s Report, “Sellafield’s biggest single risk to its current and future operations is that its Analytical Services function will fail, disrupting other site operations; this is both ‘very likely’ to happen and could have a ‘very high impac…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh and Atherton (Jo Platt) on securing this crucial debate. Constituencies such as mine have long faced challenges of poor connectivity. Warrington South is located at the crossroads of the north-west. It is …”

“I begin by declaring an interest: I am proud to be married to a serving Cheshire police officer. In the year ending September 2024, there were 1 million incidents of antisocial behaviour, 490,000 shop theft offences and more than 55,000 knife or sharp instrument offences. Those are not just numbers; they are real peopl…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that community asset transfers offer a real opportunity for grassroots clubs such as mine in Warrington South, allowing for the enhancement of community facilities while also giving local people a stake in how their clubs are run, putting people over profit and retaining an identity rooted in …”

“Like the Minister, I am proud to be a Labour and Co-operative MP. Today’s announcement is a great win for our movement, putting power where it belongs: in our communities. In areas such as mine, community can be found in our proud grassroots sports teams. Will the Minister update us on what more can be done to empower …”

“Moving on to skills, I have two particular questions. One is in the short term. The first question is around the target for 6% of the civil service workforce to be part of the digital and data profession by 2025. How far along are we on that? Longer term, there is a skill shortage in this area, so what is the plan to m…”

“It is not just about taking it seriously. It is more grappling with the sheer scale of what this actually means, because it is not a small endeavour, is it?”

“In terms of the individual Departments and the grasping of the sheer significance of change that this is going to bring about, the sheer number of legacy systems—I know that we are going to touch upon that later—and the workforce and skills that are going to be needed, do you think that the Departments are adequately g…”

“I would like to carry on looking at the adoption at scale, but also the recruitment, skills and needs challenges that this is going to bring along with it. Implementing a project of this scale will obviously depend on learning lessons from other complex cross-departmental transformation programmes. To start with, how i…”

“Looking to the long term, this is a huge opportunity for our young people going through the system as well. If we can get that right now for the long term, and make sure that they are learning the skills that they need to, that is a fantastic opportunity.”

“Yes, that is the next step. Before I go into the future thinking on skills, it is around the public sector and the adoption in the public sector, so thinking about local authorities as well and workforce of local authorities. We have seen significant cuts to budgets, which have left the workforces in local authorities …”

“Many of my constituents cannot afford to buy their freeholds under the current leasehold legislation. When does the Minister think the legislation to ensure that leaseholders can enfranchise easier, cheaper and quicker will come into force?”

“3. What steps she plans to take to reform the leasehold system.”

“Given the significance of phase 2 for the overall project—the speed element and the capacity element—and given that the DfT has estimated that the west coast main line will reach capacity by the mid-2030s, surely this is a priority. What alternatives are being considered as this has been scrapped?”