Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
7 July 2026
Climate Change: Weather Events
The Climate Change Committee has condemned the Government for failing and falling short of adapting to climate change and accepting the reality as it is, which is that by the end of this century, global temperatures will have increased to between 3.5° and 4.5° above pre-industrial levels. What are t…
Commons
Debate
28 April 2026
2 contributions
Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
It is a pleasure to participate in this very important debate. I am going to add a perspective from someone who has never been in the Whips Office, but who has witnessed the dark arts of the Whips during his time in this place.
I can see that what is happening today is that the Prime Minister has b…
No, I will not give way; I think we need to make progress.
The effect of using the word “whatsoever”, I think, was that the Prime Minister probably inadvertently misled himself. I am being generous, but what I am really saying to Labour Members is: “Watch out. You are probably working very well tog…
Commons
Westminster Hall
28 April 2026
2 contributions
Park Home Owners
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec. I have been involved with the park homes issue for the best part of 30 years; I have 2,000 people in my constituency living in park homes, and I am much concerned by the abuses so many of them have suffered—not just in my constituency, but…
When the Minister kindly came to the APPG on park homes, he heard from Nat Slade, the environmental health officer for Arun district council, about the issues he faces and the need for urgent action on complex ownership structures, which was first promised in 2017. Where is that on the Minister’s ag…
Commons
Debate
26 March 2026
Local Government Reorganisation
Eighty-four per cent of the people in Christchurch voted against being forced into a unitary merger with Bournemouth and Poole, and they are still living with the consequences of that merger; a formerly debt-free council is now burdened with enormous debts and inefficiency. This year, the Minister a…
Commons
Oral Questions
26 March 2026
Topical Questions
Can the Secretary of State tell us what the Government are doing to address the problem of number plate fraud? Number plates are being falsely registered to wrong addresses by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, vehicle number plates are being cloned, and false number plates are being used, all…
Commons
Oral Questions
12 February 2026
Lord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble Address Motion
Does the Minister share my concern about the revelations relating to the connection between Mandelson and the Chinese motor manufacturer BYD, which now says that the United Kingdom is the largest destination for its electric vehicles? Is he preventing the Secretary of State for Energy Security and N…
Commons
Oral Questions
Transport
12 February 2026
Driving Test Waiting Times
Is not the fundamental problem that the DVSA is a state-controlled monolith without any competition? Would it not be a good idea to privatise the DVSA and enable young people to access driving tests a lot more quickly?
Commons
Debate
4 February 2026
16 contributions
Lord Mandelson
It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans), who participates a lot more frequently than I do in Opposition day debates. On the basis of the quality of the debate today, I should come along more often.
The immediate background to this issue is the ghast…
I do not know how much credibility the hon. Gentleman has given to people whom he knows to be serial liars in his professional life. That is the issue. If the Prime Minister was on an interview panel—in a sense, he was; he was interviewing his close friend for a job—he must have known that he was ta…
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Commons
Debate
2 February 2026
US Department of Justice Release of Files
Does the Minister think that the deep involvement of Mandelson with Epstein shows that Epstein’s victims were not only women and girls but may have included young men?
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 January 2026
Local Government Reorganisation: Referendums
May I share with my hon. Friend a cautionary tale? Often, reorganisation is promoted as delivering better value for money, but since Christchurch was absorbed into the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area, the consequence has been less efficiency and higher costs, to the extent that BCP …
Commons
Oral Questions
Church Commissioners
15 January 2026
2 contributions
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
Does the hon. Lady agree that there are practical consequences flowing from the failure of the— [ Interruption. ]
Does the hon. Lady accept that there are practical consequences flowing from the intolerable delay in the Government making an announcement about the scheme? For example, repairs are under way at All Saints church in Mudeford and at Christchurch priory, and the consequence of the Government not doin…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 January 2026
Offshore Wind
How are the figures that the Secretary of State has announced today compatible with the Climate Change Committee’s seventh carbon budget last year, which said that the cost of offshore wind at 2023 prices would be £37.80 per megawatt-hour in 2035? He has just announced £90.91 per megawatt-hour, so h…
Commons
Westminster Hall
13 January 2026
4 contributions
Universities: Statutory Duty of Care
I call Llinos Medi.
Order. Back Benchers’ speeches must end by 10.30 am so that we can move on to the wind-ups.
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Commons
Debate
9 December 2025
Illegal Migrants: Unknown Whereabouts
Will my hon. Friend write to the Procedure Committee with his file on this case? The Procedure Committee is at the moment inquiring into the quality of answers to written questions, and is very concerned about the lack of quality. I am also concerned about receiving answers, in my case from the Trea…
Commons
Proceedings
27 November 2025
Budget Resolutions
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee). I thank him for his support for the campaign against the family farm tax, and for his courage in speaking out in favour of abolishing that impost on our farming communities.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is t…
Commons
Proceedings
27 November 2025
Right to Trial by Jury
Does the Minister accept that failed asylum seekers are exploiting these delays in the Crown courts? Will she therefore consider restricting the right to jury trial, so that only British citizens can enjoy it?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
25 November 2025
COP30
Is it not a cruel confidence trick to suggest that 1.5°C is still achievable, when it manifestly is not? Earlier this month, the International Energy Agency confirmed 2.9°C by 2100 as its central scenario and that a 2.5°C increase by 2050 was totally unrealistic and unachievable. Would the Governmen…
Commons
Westminster Hall
12 November 2025
3 contributions
Typhoon Fighter Sovereign Capability
Order. The hon. Gentleman arrived late. He has made an intervention already and is now making a very long intervention. He should have some regard for other Members who have been here throughout the debate.
I call Luke Akehurst, who I am afraid has been left with only a couple of minutes.
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Commons
Westminster Hall
3 September 2025
6 contributions
Covid-19 Vaccination Harm
I beg to move,
That this House has considered Government support for people harmed following covid-19 vaccinations.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. This is a hot topic. The Secretary of State told my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Southam …
My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. I have before me the answer that he received from the Secretary of State when he raised the matter at Health questions on 17 June:
“I reassure the right hon. and learned Gentleman, the constituents of his I have met and other campaigners that I …
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Commons
Debate
2 September 2025
2 contributions
Solar Development: Newark
Will my right hon. Friend give way?
One way of dealing with that would be for the Government to prohibit the import of solar panels and insist that, as a condition of such solar farms, panels must be produced within the United Kingdom. Would that not be a sensible policy?
Commons
Petition
2 September 2025
GP Practice in Burton, Dorset
It is a pleasure to be able to present this petition, which has been organised by Mr and Mrs Mackenzie-Cook of Burton in Christchurch, who, along with thousands of other local residents, have been campaigning for the reopening of Burton’s only GP surgery, which prior to its closure in August last ye…
Commons
Westminster Hall
16 July 2025
Further Education Institutions
If the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Alison Hume) wishes to participate in this debate, I should say that there are only 10 minutes or so for the Minister to respond to the mass of points that have been made. I hope she will be brief.
Commons
Debate
11 July 2025
7 contributions
Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill
I beg to move amendment 1, page 1, line 22, leave out subsection (4).
This amendment would exclude an amendment to paragraph 8(1A) of schedule 4 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992. It would reduce the Bill from covering four areas, to covering only section 47 of the Family Law Act 1996, secti…
I thank the Minister for his response. Perhaps the logic of what he says is that, instead of my amendment to remove the provisions relating to council tax, we should add to the Bill a provision about shoplifters and fraudsters, so that they are subject to remote hearings, on the basis that this will…
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