Lucy Frazer

2022 - 10 - 28

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Lucy Frazer humiliated after claiming to have delivered '40 new ... (The National)

A TORY MP has been met with reactions of disbelief and laughter after she claimed her government delivered “40 new hospitals” during an…

So, it’s not just the NHS.” They’ve got nowhere to go, that’s why we’ve got a social care crisis. “There is a commitment to do 40 new hospitals,” said Frazer to reactions of laughter from the audience. He said: “This is just nonsense, there are no 40 new hospitals. Question Time host Fiona Bruce asked: “Sorry, did you just say we have 40 new hospitals.” There are no 40 new hospitals” say members of the panel in response.

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'Nonsense!' Labour's David Lammy locks horns with Tory MP Lucy ... (Daily Express)

BBC Question Time panellists and members of the audience in Dulwich were discussing how the Government could deal with the NHS and social care crisis.

[David Lammy](/news/politics/1688544/SNP-Ash-Regan-resigns-GRA-bill-Nicola-Sturgeon-latest) fumed at Levelling Up Minister Lucy Frazer after the Tory MP claimed her Conservative Government had built 40 new hospitals, branding it "nonsense". "There is a commitment to 40." She said: "There are many ways of treating people.

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Lucy Frazer humiliated after claiming to have delivered '40 new ... (The National)

A TORY MP has been met with reactions of disbelief and laughter after she claimed her government delivered “40 new hospitals” during an…

So, it’s not just the NHS.” They’ve got nowhere to go, that’s why we’ve got a social care crisis. “There is a commitment to do 40 new hospitals,” said Frazer to reactions of laughter from the audience. He said: “This is just nonsense, there are no 40 new hospitals. Question Time host Fiona Bruce asked: “Sorry, did you just say we have 40 new hospitals.” There are no 40 new hospitals” say members of the panel in response.

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Rowley re-appointed as housing minister (Housing Today)

Rowley returns to housing brief and Lucy Frazer joins ministerial team.

Junior minister Andrew Stephenson has also left DLUHC to join the whip’s office. Openly gay, he was a councillor in Westminster between 2006 and 2014, before winning the North East Derbyshire seat from Labour in 2017. Dehenna Davison and Baroness Scott of Bybrook have also been appointed as levelling up minister and minister for communities respectively. Lucy Frazer has also been named as minister of state in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) following Rishi Sunak becoming the new prime minister this week. [reappointed secretary of state Michael Gove](https://www.housingtoday.co.uk/in-focus/gove-is-back-key-questions-for-the-returning-housing-secretary/5120106.article). Lee Rowley has been re-appointed as housing minister, the Department for Levelling Up Housing & Communities (DLHUC) has confirmed.

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