Commons
Westminster Hall
8 July 2025
2 contributions
Alcohol and Cancer
I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called to speak in the debate.
I will call the Liberal Democrat spokesman at 10.28 am.
Commons
Westminster Hall
8 July 2025
2 contributions
Generative Artificial Intelligence: Schools
Will the Minister give way?
I apologise for not being here at the start, and I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. To what extent is he concerned about biases within the models? Most of the major generative AI models are not produced in this country; they are developed in highly competitive circumstances and tend to be…
Commons
Westminster Hall
8 July 2025
Local Government Reform: Cambridgeshire
I remind Members that they may only make a speech with prior permission from the Member in charge and the Minister. As is the convention for 30-minute debates, there will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up.
Commons
Debate
1 July 2025
3 contributions
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
rose —
Does my right hon. Friend agree that the chief architect of the fiasco faced by people with disabilities and every member of the Labour party today is the Chancellor of the Exchequer? The fact that she is not here to face up and take responsibility is all we need to know about her and those on the G…
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
1 July 2025
Transport Infrastructure Funding
MPs and councils of all parties across east and north Yorkshire are united in wanting to enhance connectivity in the area, have greener options and optimise the economic output of the area, so will the Chancellor work with us on a cross-party basis to look at reopening a direct rail line from Hull t…
Commons
Debate
24 June 2025
Department for Education
I am extremely grateful to be cheekily coming in at this point, but the East Riding of Yorkshire is the lowest-funded authority in the country for SEN. I hope we might hear from the Minister about how the distribution, as well as the quantum, can be made fairer. Unfair distribution exacerbates the s…
Commons
Westminster Hall
24 June 2025
4 contributions
War Memorials
Order. Speakers have around four minutes—that is an informal initial steer.
Twenty seconds.
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Work and Pensions
23 June 2025
Topical Questions
At the weekend, Vivergo and Ensus workers learned that UK negotiators had successfully protected the UK bioethanol industry until President Trump called the Prime Minister and he sold out that industry, allowing a genetically modified bioethanol to flood the market and put all those jobs at risk. Wh…
Commons
Oral Questions
Health and Social Care
17 June 2025
Care in the Community
Dental patients with untreated need end up in hospitals. In places like Hedon in my constituency, we have seen more and more dental practices moving away from the NHS. I have a constituent who found it took her three years to get her child their first check-up, and that dental practice has now cease…
Commons
Debate
12 June 2025
13 contributions
SEND Funding
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the distribution of SEND funding.
I am delighted to have secured this debate, as it gives us an opportunity to highlight the situation we are facing in England, where children with special educational needs and disabilities are being left behind due to…
The hon. Gentleman takes me to a point further on in my speech, but he is absolutely right. He makes the case to the Minister, exactly as I intend to: given that we have a broken distribution system and given the severity of its impact on so many children and families, will she ensure that the money…
+11 more contributions in this session
Commons
Ministerial Statement
12 June 2025
Spending Review: Health and Social Care
The hon. Member for North Herefordshire (Ellie Chowns) is absolutely right about social care. We have a system in which healthcare is dependent on social care—Lord Darzi says so, and I think even Ministers have said so—yet all funding is going into the NHS, not into social care. We are fundamentally…
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
12 June 2025
Topical Questions
T3. In the US trade agreement, the Prime Minister gave access to the UK market for 1.4 billion litres of US bioethanol. The Secretary of State will know that that is the entire size of the UK market. Yesterday, apprentices came here from Vivergo in my constituency. The hundreds of people directly em…
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
12 June 2025
Support for Small Businesses
If the book that the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Alan Gemmell) has written is a political thriller about fighting for small business, I am sure it features five heroes on the Government Front Bench doing everything they can to promote small business. But readers will ask, “Who is the villain o…
Commons
Oral Questions
Wales
11 June 2025
Clean Energy: Wales
People of all ages welcome Wales’s role in making this country a clean energy superpower, but pensioners in particular had to go through last winter freezing cold, and tens of thousands went to A&E. Will the Minister, who we all know is a decent Labour Front Bencher, do what the Chancellor refus…
Commons
Debate
10 June 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My hon. Friend will be aware that Governments of all stripes tend not to accept amendments in this House, enormously to the frustration of colleagues from across the Chamber who put them forward. Will he join me in encouraging the Minister and his ministerial colleagues to take the opportunity to th…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
9 June 2025
Winter Fuel Payment
The Minister seems unable to say sorry, but does he at least regret that more than 90,000 more elderly people went to A&E last winter than did the year before, in the last winter under the Conservative Government?
Commons
Oral Questions
Housing, Communities and Local Government
9 June 2025
Topical Questions
T6. I am confident that the Secretary of State loves the pub as much as you and I do, Mr Speaker, but the jobs tax and the slashing of business rate relief have delivered a hammer blow to pubs such as the Barrel in Walkington, owned by Thwaites, and to hospitality businesses such as the Beverley Arm…
Commons
Oral Questions
Housing, Communities and Local Government
9 June 2025
New Homes: Minimum EPC Rating
In 2010, just 12% of homes had an EPC C rating or above, so those homes were too cold and had bills that were too high. It was 60% by 2024 when we left power. Will the Minister share with the House the ambition and give us a number for the percentage of homes that we should expect to have that basic…
Commons
Proceedings
2 June 2025
Government Announcements
My constituents will wonder about a Government who promised to do things differently. They said that they would be transparent and be whiter than white—then they behave like this. One almost feels sorry for the Leader of the House, because she is trying to defend the indefensible.
It is not enough …
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
2 June 2025
2 contributions
Rape Gangs: Statutory Inquiry
12. If she will establish a national statutory inquiry into rape gangs.
Senior figures in the Catholic Church and the Church of England were found to have conspired to cover up child abuse by priests. Senior figures in the Labour party are now opposing local inquiries in places such as Bradford, London and Wales, and Ministers here oppose a national rape inquiry. We hav…
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 May 2025
3 contributions
Parkinson’s Disease
Order. The sitting is suspended for 15 minutes for a Division in the House.
We have five Back-Bench speakers. I will call the Front Benchers at 5.23 pm, so I will let hon. Members make a judgment on that. We will start with the ever-succinct and effective Ed Morello.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 May 2025
2 contributions
Broadband and Mobile Connectivity: Rural Areas
I will call Anna Sabine to move the motion and then the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from both the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. If anyone does not have that twin permission, they should not and may not speak. T…
I will give no advice, but the Minister will.
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 May 2025
2 contributions
Ukraine: Forcibly Deported Children
Order. I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate. I suggest an informal four-minute limit to allow all those who wish to speak to do so.
I call the Minister, with a reminder to finish by 3.58 pm at the latest.