Commons
Proceedings
11 December 2025
Business of the House
The Leader of the House will share my disappointment at the Scottish Government’s illogical and wrong-headed approach to nuclear power, which means that the former Chapelcross site in my constituency cannot be considered for a new nuclear power station. I hope that, like me, he welcomes the announce…
Commons
Proceedings
4 December 2025
Business of the House
I was pleased to welcome pupils from Annan academy in my constituency to Parliament last week and to hear directly from those young people that many of them had actively participated in a consultation by SNP-led Dumfries and Galloway council to voice their opposition to an ill-thought-out proposal t…
Commons
Oral Questions
2 December 2025
Topical Questions
The child nutrition fund is one of the most effective ways to enhance the impact and value for money of official development assistance spending by mobilising domestic resources, with philanthropic and private capital having the potential to multiply UK ODA contributions as much as sixfold. In 2023,…
Commons
Oral Questions
27 November 2025
2 contributions
Future of TV Distribution
9. What recent progress the Future of TV Distribution stakeholder forum has made on its work.
Older people and those in rural constituencies such as mine, which unfortunately still have unreliable broadband, rely on terrestrial television. The excellent Westminster Hall debate that I led demonstrated cross-party concern about this issue. Will the Minister meet me and other concerned MPs to d…
Commons
Oral Questions
Scotland
26 November 2025
Defence Sector: Skills and Training
I was delighted when Eastriggs in my constituency was shortlisted for a new UK munitions factory. The Secretary of State will know about its long history in munitions and the fact that the Ministry of Defence already owns the site. Will the Scotland Office continue to promote the project and join me…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
25 November 2025
G20 and Ukraine
I was very pleased that the Prime Minister mentioned Sudan; we cannot be blind to Russia’s malign interest there or across the Sahel. What discussions has he had with Prime Minister Modi about his approach to Russian oil and what appear to be his overly friendly social media posts towards President …
Commons
Oral Questions
25 November 2025
Topical Questions
The Secretary of State will be aware that since the law change, the number of children who have received NHS prescriptions for medical cannabis for severe epilepsy has been pitifully low. Families and campaigners believe that part of the reason is that the Home Office still has large responsibility …
Commons
Westminster Hall
19 November 2025
4 contributions
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Order. I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called. It is clear that we need a three-minute time limit if we are to get everybody in, but I cannot guarantee that we will.
With apologies to other Members who wished to speak, I now call the Lib Dem spokesperson.
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
19 November 2025
Suicide: Reducing the Stigma
Order. If we stick to about seven minutes each, everybody can get in.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
18 November 2025
Gaza and Sudan
I very much welcome the Foreign Secretary’s proactive statement, and I hope that will be the pattern of engagement with Parliament going forward. In addition to the horrendous atrocities that she and others have detailed, the World Food Programme has identified that 700,000 people face catastrophic …
Commons
Debate
13 November 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
I will speak to Lords amendment 28, which was introduced in the other place but relates specifically to my constituency. The Eskdalemuir seismic array, which is near the village of Eskdalemuir in my constituency, is a seismological monitoring station established to detect seismic signals from nuclea…
Commons
Debate
11 November 2025
BBC Leadership
I have long been a champion of the BBC as a UK national institution, but at the last charter review I raised my concern about the prevalence of a metropolitan elite at the heart of the BBC—not just at UK level but in Scotland—who do not always convey that they understand or indeed respect rural or o…
Commons
Westminster Hall
5 November 2025
14 contributions
Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights
Before we start proceedings, I want to say two things. First, this debate is oversubscribed, so not everyone will get to speak. I hope to call 10 Back- Bench Members to contribute for three minutes each. If Members take interventions, they will not get extra time because this is an hour-long debate.…
The debate may continue until 6.30 pm.
+12 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
5 November 2025
5 contributions
Fresh and Nutritious Food: Inequality of Access
I will call Gordon McKee to move the motion. I will then call the Minister to respond. Two other Members have indicated that they may wish to speak, but they can make a speech only with the approval of both the Member in charge and the Minister. I proceed on the basis that those two Members have tha…
I sense that a large number of people want to make an intervention, but they must keep them short; otherwise, Mr McKee will not get to deliver his speech.
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
5 November 2025
10 contributions
House Building: London
I am going to impose an informal five-minute limit, and we will see how we get on.
I call Peter Fortune, who I am sure will stick to the five-minute limit.
+8 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 November 2025
2 contributions
Official Development Assistance Reductions
It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion), the Chair of the International Development Committee, because I want to refer to one or two things that the Committee has been doing. I thank the hon. Member for West Dorset (Edward Morello) for securing the debate.
Gi…
That is partly right, because negative stories have prevailed and we have not had people on the other side rebutting them, as we have not had advocates on the ground. I feel that many non-governmental organisations became far too corporate in their approach: they did not have the local people who we…
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 November 2025
3 contributions
Video Games: Consumer Law
Order. I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows he cannot intervene, having not been here at the start of Mr Goldsborough’s contribution. That is a House rule.
Order. I am sure that if Members make specific references to games and their various levels, they will share that information directly with Hansard.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Proceedings
30 October 2025
Business of the House
Kelloholm is a former mining community in my constituency. Like the rest of Upper Nithsdale, it has few amenities, so it came as a complete shock to local people when, out of the blue, SNP-led Dumfries and Galloway council suggested closing the Hillview leisure centre as a possible budget-saving mea…
Commons
Proceedings
30 October 2025
Sudan: Protection of Civilians
I thank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker, as you have done with a number of others, but this important issue should not have to come to the Floor of the House by way of an urgent question. The Government must be more proactive. The Minister for Africa gave a commitment to the Intern…
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
30 October 2025
Investment in Businesses
A major lodge development at Irvine House near Canonbie, and the potential for a Center Parcs in the borders, show that there is still great potential for jobs in the tourism industry my constituency. Will the Secretary of State encourage the Chancellor to follow the advice of the Scottish Hospitali…
Commons
Proceedings
16 October 2025
Business of the House
I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his post, and my athletic constituency neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont), to his.
Today at 2 pm there will be a protest in Moffat by campaigners who are making a last-ditch attempt to save the local Bank o…
Commons
Oral Questions
Church Commissioners
16 October 2025
Small Churches in Rural Constituencies
Can I ask the hon. Lady to encourage the Church Commissioners to share best practice and their experience of sustaining small churches in rural communities with the Church of Scotland? Sadly, in my constituency we have seen almost the wholesale closure of every small church in a rural area.
Commons
Oral Questions
16 October 2025
Tourism: Major Energy Infrastructure Projects
My constituency has the largest number of wind turbines, either constructed or consented to. Does the Minister share my concern that the Scottish Government continue to override the views of local councils and local communities in consenting to further projects that are to the detriment of the lands…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
15 October 2025
Pride in Place
Borderlands was a fully-funded initiative launched by the former Government, and it is now supported by the Department, the Scottish Government and the Scotland Office here in Westminster. It is designed to meet all the objectives that she has set out in the south of Scotland, Cumbria and Northumber…