Commons
Westminster Hall
9 July 2026
Conflicts: Impact on Older People
Order. The hon. Member should not take my views for granted in this sort of debate—he can speak for himself, I am sure.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
30 June 2026
Defence Investment Plan
I welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment to buy British and create British jobs. When he produces his further strategy on procurement in the autumn, will he try to get a joined-up approach to procurement across Government, as that is important to our industrial strategy? The MOD is investing £1…
Commons
Oral Questions
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
16 June 2026
2 contributions
West Bank: Settler Activity
3. What steps she plans to take in response to increases in settler violence in the west bank.
Let me add a few words about the murder of Jo Cox. I was a friend and colleague of Jo’s, and I still remember the numbness and shock that I felt on hearing the news. Quite simply, no Member of this House should fear for their life because they speak out on behalf of their constituents.
The west ban…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
15 June 2026
Russian Shadow Fleet
I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his appointment—he is very well suited to the job at hand. I am sure he will understand, though, if I also express my disappointment that his predecessor and my constituency neighbour, my right hon. Friend the Member for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough (John Healey), …
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 June 2026
2 contributions
Secondary Breast Cancer
Order. Members must not refer to each other by name in the Chamber.
Order. I will call Mary Kelly Foy next, as the co-sponsor of the debate. After her speech, I will give hon. Members an indication of how long they may have to speak, to try to get us to the end of the debate in a reasonable fashion.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
22 April 2026
Pension Schemes
The Public Accounts Committee has had a number of hearings on this issue, and I am sure the Chair, the hon. Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown), will want to ask some questions. First of all, there is a shared responsibility here. MyCSP has responsibilities, but I have to say tha…
Commons
Westminster Hall
26 March 2026
3 contributions
Prison Officers: Mandatory Body Armour
Order. Six Members wish to contribute to the debate and we have about 50 minutes, so people can do the sums on that—it is about eight minutes maximum for each speech.
The right hon. Lady had the courtesy to advise me in advance that she would have to leave shortly after 4 pm, so I think it was reasonable to allow her to speak in the debate.
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Commons
Debate
19 March 2026
UK Steel Strategy
I welcome the strategy. Sheffield’s history is inextricably linked to steel, and we want our future to be linked to steel as well. My right hon. Friend mentioned the excellent work that Forgemasters is doing to provide steel for our nuclear reactors, our nuclear submarines and, hopefully, our civil …
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 March 2026
3 contributions
Disability Equipment Provision
Order. Six Back Benchers want to speak in the debate, so I suggest about five minutes each as a guideline.
We now move on to the Front Benchers. The Liberal Democrat and Opposition spokespeople will have five minutes, and the Minister will have 10. There is a bit of flexibility on that time, so we can be a little more generous if required.
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Commons
Westminster Hall
11 March 2026
4 contributions
UK-based Tech Companies
Order. We have five speakers, which gives each of them between eight and 10 minutes, so that we can get the Front Benchers in after that. I call Chris Evans.
Order. The hon. Gentleman has not been reading the media—we had some good news this morning, which has moved us forward. I just wanted to make sure everyone is up to date with the important information.
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Commons
Ministerial Statement
25 February 2026
Post Office Green Paper
I warmly welcome the Minister’s statement. May I raise two specific issues relating to post offices in my constituency?
First, Mosborough post office, a fairly small but growing business, is on the margins of viability. Will the Minister think again about how small post offices in communities that …
Commons
Debate
23 February 2026
Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving
The Public Accounts Committee has looked at the cost of home-to-school transport. Clearly, one of the drivers is the cost of sending kids with special needs miles away from their home to very expensive private schools. The Government have announced help on the statutory overrides that have been incu…
Commons
Debate
11 February 2026
10 contributions
Local Government Finance
My right hon. Friend is being a little unfair to the Tories. The biggest cuts under austerity from 2010 to 2024 came from 2010 to 2015 when the Lib Dems were in coalition, so perhaps they should share some of the blame.
It is interesting to hear the hon. Member completely remove from his memory what happened in the 14 years of his Government. I ask him to remember back to when this began in 2010, when council tax generated about 20% of council funding, and how it has grown over the years under the Conservative and …
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Commons
Ministerial Statement
5 February 2026
National Cancer Plan
I really welcome this plan, and the efforts of my hon. Friend the Minister and right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in putting it together. I will just raise one credit and one request to go a bit further.
First, when I had my cancer treatment eight years ago, I thought I knew my way around the…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
21 January 2026
Warm Homes Plan
I am sure the Secretary of State will agree that it is not just about having the right policy, which I am sure this is; it is also about the right implementation. My constituents Mr and Mrs Henley-Smith had a heat pump installed under a previous Government scheme. The heat pump was so badly installe…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 January 2026
Northern Powerhouse Rail
I thank the Secretary of State for the improvements announced to the Sheffield-Leeds line and for some of the improvements to the Sheffield-Manchester line, although I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) that we need a through route to Manchester airport a…
Commons
Westminster Hall
8 January 2026
3 contributions
Myanmar: Religious Minority Persecution
Four Back Benchers want to speak, and I will have the chance to call all of them. We have 40 minutes before the Front-Bench speeches, so that is fairly easy to work out: there are 10 minutes each, if you want to take them.
We move on to the Front-Bench speakers.
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Commons
Debate
5 January 2026
Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief
Although this issue is clearly of importance to the farming industry, it is also of importance to small firms in the steel and engineering sector in my constituency. The owner of Special Quality Alloys, Benn Beardshaw, wrote to tell me that the firm had been in the family for many years, and had bee…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
17 December 2025
Local Government Finance
I do not know whether my hon. Friend is as surprised as I am that the official Opposition could not even bear to mention the word “austerity” when they responded. Before we move on, there was a case of amnesia from the Lib Dems, who forget their role, under the coalition Government, in some of the w…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
16 December 2025
Planning Reform
I congratulate my hon. Friend on his efforts to get the homes built that the country needs, particularly for young people, who face the prospect of never being able to afford a home of their own. I have two questions. First, does he think that where a site is earmarked in a local plan for developmen…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
16 December 2025
Electoral Resilience
I would like to follow up on the question raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough (Justin Madders) about social media. This is really important. If a foreign Government are funding third parties to post false comments on social media in order to mislead people exercisi…
Commons
Proceedings
12 November 2025
Independent Football Regulator
May I say to my right hon. Friend that in the terrible time that Sheffield Wednesday fans have been through in the last few months, not one of them has ever asked me what is happening with this report and review? They say to me, “How quickly can we get a regulator in place who will deal with owners …
Commons
Proceedings
29 October 2025
Gaza and Hamas
I welcome the statement from my hon. Friend. It is fairly clear that the Israeli Government agreed to the peace deal only because they felt they had to, not because they necessarily wanted to. After all this time, we still have not got aid flowing into Gaza in the way we would all want to see. What …
Commons
Statutory Instrument
28 October 2025
3 contributions
Draft Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025
I am astounded by the shadow Minister, or perhaps I am not—I have heard it all before from him. Let me make this clear; I chaired a meeting two weeks ago with the National League on its 3UP campaign. One thing that it wanted to talk about was the football pyramid, and how the “State of the Game” rep…
The problem with strengthening ownership tests is that, in the end, it is a members’ club that currently imposes them—it is the league. Owners do not want to come out strongly against other owners, as they worry that they will be the next ones to be caught. That is why we need an independent regulat…
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Commons
Westminster Hall
16 October 2025
3 contributions
World Menopause Day
Order. I remind Members that they need to indicate if they wish to speak.
There is a four-minute guideline for speeches. Please try not to go over it so that we can get everyone in.
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