💷 I was pleased to chair the AGM for the Financial Education for Young People.  We discussed various updates in the financial education space, looking ahead to upcoming activity; heard from industry experts, and discussed the Education Select Committee’s Inquiry.
The dualling of the A47 at Blofield was fully funded and ready to go a year ago. Since then, a former Green party parliamentary candidate has bogged it down in a series of legal challenges. Once they have been overcome, will the Department be right behind that much-needed dualling scheme?
Costs are rising for growing a business in Cambridge, yet Norwich, a finer city, is just down the road and, more importantly, just down the railway. We need a greater frequency of trains, and faster trains, to make the Norwich-Cambridge tech corridor a greater reality.
I am delighted to see today’s NHS Dental Recovery Plan, delivering both a short term boost in access to NHS dentists as well as long term changes to increase NHS dental provision.
It has been an absolutely fascinating debate, and I am grateful to Emily Thornberry for proposing this motion, because it has given us an opportunity to explore what responsible government really is.
We are no strangers to hyperbole in the Chamber, but I think the exaggeration of the importance of this Bill in the debate has surprised even Government Members.
I should start my speech with a personal apology for not having been here for the full course of this debate. I very much wanted to be here, but I had duties in Westminster Hall in two debates during the course of the afternoon which prevented me from taking a full role in this debate.
Some dental practices are taking advantage of post-covid demand to take their NHS practices private, earning more money but leaving behind those most in need.
