During the summer, we welcomed the £30.6 million investment in a new urgent care centre at Stepping Hill Hospital.

Would my hon. Friend care to comment on this splendid irony?

It is important that we all accept that we are all entirely responsible for our language and the speeches that we make, from the Prime Mi

Will the hon. Lady give way?

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The recently announced multi-billion-pound settlement for education will be hugely welcomed by Stockport schools.

Extra money for our schools would ordinarily be welcomed, but I suppose we are in quite unusual times. I welcome my right hon.

Will schools get some of that welcome extra cash in this financial year or must they wait until the next year?

I am probably as much from the north as Andy Burnham—I am from Greater Manchester—and I am critical of HS2 today.

Surely, the point of scrutiny is not political point scoring, but accountability for the billions of pounds for this project.