Commons
Proceedings
18 March 2026
Student Loans
It is a pleasure to participate in this debate. Graduates were promised a fair deal, and we have heard all the promises that were made from when the current Prime Minister stood to be Leader of the Opposition to the announcements that were made afterwards. People were told to work hard, go to univer…
Commons
Proceedings
18 March 2026
8 contributions
Student Loans
My right hon. Friend will have noted, as I have, that the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Helena Dollimore), the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Brash) and other Labour Members wish to talk about the past. Our constituents, and graduates who are paying these outrageous sums, want to talk about the …
Young people in my constituency are looking for a bit of hope. How should they interpret the Minister’s answer to her hon. Friend, the hon. Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel), and the fact that the Chancellor has said that young people are at the back of the queue? From that very r…
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Commons
Debate
18 March 2026
7 contributions
Fuel Duty
My right hon. Friend makes a powerful point about North sea oil and gas extraction. The Labour party says that will not make any difference to the global price of oil and gas, but billions and billions of pounds in tax will be lost as a result of having no new licences in the North sea. Those billio…
Will my right hon. Friend give way?
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Commons
Debate
16 March 2026
Heating Oil Support
I welcome the Government coming forward with a proposal, but many of my constituents are facing £600 or £700 increases on bills that are coming immediately at them. The Minister cannot tell us today who exactly will be eligible for help—perhaps he can answer that. He cannot tell us how much they wil…
Commons
Debate
11 March 2026
2 contributions
Commonwealth Day 2026
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being typically gracious and generous. Last year I met Darren England, who goes out quietly and cleans and maintains and lovingly looks after the Commonwealth war graves in Withernsea. Will the hon. Gentleman join me in congratulating all those who go quie…
Commons
Debate
11 March 2026
3 contributions
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Will the Minister give way?
Will the Minister give way?
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Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
11 March 2026
Engagements
Q9. Rural residents in Beverley and Holderness are reeling from the impact of higher fuel prices, yet two days ago, the Chancellor said that in September fuel duty would go up. My constituents want to know, as the Leader of the Opposition repeatedly asked: will that fuel duty go up in September and …
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
10 March 2026
Cost of Living: Families
Richard from Beverley tells me that he paid £304 for his last tank of heating oil, yet if he orders it again now—and he needs to do so within four weeks—it will cost him £862. Families across rural areas such as Beverley and Holderness rely on heating oil to keep warm, yet because they are off-grid,…
Commons
Oral Questions
Work and Pensions
9 March 2026
Support for NEET Young People
Might the Secretary of State perhaps come up to Long Riston in my constituency and go to Oasis services, where I went on Friday? It faces a fivefold increase in its business rates, as well as the impact of the more than £4,000 increase in the cost of hiring a young person. Some people may welcome th…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
3 March 2026
Spring Forecast
Business has been crushed by the taxes brought in by this Chancellor. Just a year ago, in a fairly gloomy forecast by the OBR, it was suggesting 1.8% GDP growth over the forecast period. That has now been reduced to 1.5%. If the central mission of this Chancellor—and supposedly this Government—is ec…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
2 March 2026
Middle East
The Prime Minister has made it clear that he thinks there was insufficient imminent threat to justify our going with our allies in the initial strike. But this is now after the act of war—after the attack on UK citizens across the middle east, many countries of which were not participating, and on B…
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
2 March 2026
Student Loan System
Sammi from Keyingham in my constituency, who was one of the first in her family to go to university, graduated in 2016 after borrowing £40,000. She has now been working in the medical field for over four years, but that £40,000 has grown to £46,000. I was glad to hear the Minister’s previous answer,…
Commons
Debate
25 February 2026
4 contributions
Ukraine
I apologise for coming to the debate so late and intervening so quickly, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I have just returned from Ukraine, along with a few colleagues. We were able to attend the memorial marking four years since the invasion and to commemorate the deaths there. The hon. Gentleman is maki…
I entirely agree with every word my right hon. Friend has said. Perhaps an area where we—the previous Government or this one—have not succeeded is in sufficiently sharing, or narrating and telling the story of, the threat to our UK citizens of suffering the barbarity that the Ukrainians are sufferin…
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Commons
Oral Questions
12 February 2026
Lord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble Address Motion
The Prime Minister said that the Cabinet Secretary’s integrity should not be questioned and then immediately briefed out that he was going to be sacked, having given him the responsibility of overseeing the handing over of documents that could be detrimental to a Prime Minister so desperate to save …
Commons
Debate
11 February 2026
11 contributions
Local Government Finance
Will the Secretary of State give way?
rose —
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Commons
Debate
11 February 2026
20 contributions
Police Grant Report
I am reassured to hear the Minister’s words, but I am not hearing how what she describes will happen. We have all seen what happens with a larger force. The big cities and metropolitan areas have a political way of pulling resources to them; it is almost like gravity. Something structural is require…
Will the Minister give way again?
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Commons
Debate
4 February 2026
10 contributions
Lord Mandelson
My hon. Friend is right to look at the process, but I do not think that it provides any cover for the Prime Minister’s decision. If the story in the New Statesman today is true, the Prime Minister was directly sent a report that
“clearly stated that Mandelson’s relationship with the paedophile cont…
Does my hon. Friend agree that the Minister needs to tell us at the Dispatch Box whether the New Statesman report today is true—that the Prime Minister was directly told that Mandelson stayed in Epstein’s flat while he was in prison, and therefore that the extent of that relationship was absolutely …
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Commons
Debate
3 February 2026
5 contributions
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
Will the hon. Member give way?
I was not here earlier in the debate, so please forgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman talked about Members being able to back up their assertions. Who was it in the debate who suggested that the Chancellor did not care? I have never heard anyone on the Opposition side of the House say…
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Commons
Debate
28 January 2026
13 contributions
Youth Unemployment
UKHospitality says that we could be seeing the death of the great British summer job, and even Labour’s own Alan Milburn has warned that there is a long-standing decline in the number of 16 and 17-year-olds getting Saturday jobs. Previous Labour Governments always shoved up youth unemployment, but n…
Will the Minister give way?
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Commons
Debate
28 January 2026
3 contributions
British Indian Ocean Territory
Like my right hon. Friend, I am proud of the role that Conservative peers have played in this, but can we also take a moment to pay credit to Back-Bench Labour MPs? I think it is important to note that they are not here. Practically the only Government Member present, scribbling away, is the hon. Me…
Where are they?
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Commons
Ministerial Statement
20 January 2026
Mobile Phones and Social Media: Use by Children
In meaningful consultations, the Government set out what they are minded to do and set out a model. This consultation does not define social media or set out an enforcement model. It does not say anything about how age verification should be done. If they do not set out their model and what they int…
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
19 January 2026
SEND: Blind and Partially Sighted Children
Blind and partially sighted children in the East Riding of Yorkshire receive lower funding through the higher needs block than anywhere else in the country, yet in the settlement the East Riding will receive the smallest increase in the country at just 2%, compared with an average of over 6%. How ca…
Commons
Westminster Hall
14 January 2026
Factored Energy Arrangements: Pricing
I will call Graham Leadbitter to move the motion, and then call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may only make a speech with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister—you need both. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to …
Commons
Westminster Hall
14 January 2026
5 contributions
Ajax Programme
I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called. We are looking at around three and a half minutes each.
I will be bringing in the Front Bench speakers at 10.28 am.
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