Commons
Oral Questions
9 December 2025
Low-income Households
The biggest issue for those on low incomes is losing their jobs. Does the Chancellor believe that there is any link at all between her increase in employer national insurance contributions —her job tax—and employment levels slumping to a 14-year low?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
25 November 2025
COP30
What commitments were secured at COP30 from the countries responsible for the highest carbon emissions—China, the US and India—to reduce their emissions, given that their leaders, Xi, Trump and Modi, could not even be bothered to attend? Or did those countries fail to commit to reducing their carbon…
Commons
Westminster Hall
24 November 2025
Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations
I remind hon. Members that, should they wish to speak in this debate, they need to bob. I know there are a lot of Members wishing to speak, but I believe there will be enough time for everybody.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 November 2025
Business of the House
Will the Leader of the House encourage the Health Secretary to break off from his leadership bid to come to the House for a few minutes to explain what progress is being made on ensuring that Knutsford gets the new medical centre that health professionals, the public and I believe is essential?
Commons
Oral Questions
4 November 2025
HMRC Customer Service
The Chancellor has justified her lack of a licence for renting out her house as an “inadvertent error”, but HMRC is never prepared to accept that people make inadvertent errors. Will this now change, or does the Chancellor expect to be treated differently from everyone else who makes an inadvertent …
Commons
Debate
29 October 2025
4 contributions
Sentencing Bill
I rise to speak to the amendments that I have tabled. I am delighted to have another attempt to stop the Government doing something that defies justice as well as common sense and that will make our streets less safe. As I said in Committee, my amendments would mean that some serious offenders would…
I shall remind the hon. Member what happened. The last Labour Government collapsed the economy, and the coalition was brought into power to get the books back on track. Unfortunately, as always happens after a Labour Government, spending had to be cut because they had bankrupted the country. When th…
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
21 October 2025
17 contributions
Sentencing Bill
I beg to move amendment 46, in clause 1, page 1, line 14, leave out “not more” and insert “less”.
The presumption for a suspended sentence would apply to sentences of less than 12 months.
I oppose the whole idea of forcing courts to give suspended sentences when they should be sending offenders to prison. We all know that it is hard to get sent to prison in the first place, and judges and magistrates do not send people to prison lightly. In fact, they do not send people to prison eno…
+15 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 October 2025
6 contributions
Tree Maintenance: Guidance to Local Authorities
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the potential merits of issuing guidance on tree maintenance to local authorities.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. Trees—beautiful, majestic and an enhancement to an area—are one of the most visible aspects of our scenery …
I think ownership of trees and people taking responsibility for their trees is essential. In this instance, it was the local council—they were on public land—but the hon. Member is quite right that they could also be on private land.
We know, too, that there have been large drives to plant trees, p…
+4 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 October 2025
12 contributions
Knife Crime
Before I call the hon. Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson) to open the debate, I wish to make a short statement about the sub judice resolution. I am sure Members will have relevant constituency cases that they want to raise during today’s debate, but under the terms of the House’s sub judice resolut…
Is it a point of order? I remind Members that it is down to the Member speaking whether to accept interventions. I will listen to the hon. Gentleman’s point of order, and we will decide whether it is one.
+10 more contributions in this session
Commons
Petition
16 September 2025
Peatland Protection
I rise to present this petition which calls on the Government to protect our peatlands in any new planning framework or legislation. I want to thank all the 486 signatories to the petition and the Friends of Lindow Moss, which has campaigned for years to protect Lindow Moss in Tatton, a site made fa…
Commons
Westminster Hall
9 September 2025
Housing: North Staffordshire
I will call Dr Allison Gardner to move the motion and then I will call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they can make a speech only with prior permission from both the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wi…
Commons
Westminster Hall
9 September 2025
3 contributions
Neurodivergent People: Employment
Order. May I remind hon. Members that interventions are just that? They are interventions, not short speeches.
I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 September 2025
Covid-19 Vaccination Harm
I, too, want to acknowledge all the work that my hon. Friend has done. He has been absolutely tenacious on this issue. I was a Minister in the Cabinet Office, so I know. I had the calls, the questions on the Floor of the House and the meetings. I hope I can help the Minister here today, because a lo…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
2 September 2025
Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
What a disappointment. I came to the House today to listen to the Minister’s statement in the hope that we would get some detailed information about the Government’s statutory inquiry. What have we had today? A long statement and little information. In fact, I would go so far as to say that what thi…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Borders and Asylum
Does the Home Secretary believe that the rights of the people coming over the channel in dinghies should take precedence over the rights of local residents in places such as Epping, as her lawyers argued for in court and as the Education Secretary said in an interview at the weekend?
Commons
Oral Questions
21 July 2025
Teacher Recruitment
This Government are hampering schools’ recruitment of new teachers. First they hiked up the cost through the increase in employer national insurance contributions; then the money promised to state schools from charging VAT on private school fees was spent on housing instead. Can the Secretary of Sta…
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 July 2025
RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit
I congratulate the hon. Member for Carlisle (Ms Minns) on securing this debate and on the way she recounted such moving and powerful stories. Each story is unique, but they are all united by themes of selflessness, quiet heroism and unwavering commitment to our country.
I will pay particular attent…
Commons
Westminster Hall
16 July 2025
7 contributions
Information Commissioner’s Office: Relocation
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the impact of the relocation of the Information Commissioner’s Office on Tatton constituency.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. The Information Commissioner’s Office plays a crucial role in safeguarding the public’s informati…
The hon. Member gets to the nub of the issue. The impact of the removal on the local community is huge, and the fact that a quango seems to be unaccountable to a sponsoring Department is incredible.
For the people I have mentioned, the decision to relocate is not a minor disruption. It affects live…
+5 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
14 July 2025
Condition of Roads: Cheshire
I completely concur with what my hon. Friend and neighbour has said about Cheshire West and Cheshire, but the roads in Cheshire East are a disgrace. As for the money—the £53 million that my hon. Friend mentioned—I have tried to get to the bottom of where that money has been spent. In fact, I have ha…
Commons
Proceedings
14 July 2025
2 contributions
Point of Order
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We are elected to this House to hold the Executive to account and to ask questions on behalf of our constituents. The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, in common with many Ministers, is treating this House and our constituents with contem…
indicated assent.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 July 2025
State of Climate and Nature
The Secretary of State has said that he wants to tell some hard truths, so can he tell the House directly—without spin and waffle, and without dodging the question—how much in cash terms it would cost the UK to get to net zero, who would pay the cost, and how much the UK getting to net zero would re…
Commons
Oral Questions
Housing, Communities and Local Government
14 July 2025
Housing Delivery
When the Minister has met major house builders, what have they told him about the chances of hitting the Government’s target of building 1.5 million new houses in this Parliament?
Commons
Westminster Hall
14 July 2025
Northern Ireland Veterans: Prosecution
Does my hon. Friend agree it is time that the hand-picked Attorney General, Lord Hermer, from whom the Prime Minister is taking legal advice on repealing the Act, should be sacked, taking his unpatriotic views with him? We all need to stand by our veterans.
Commons
Oral Questions
10 July 2025
Topical Questions
Can the Minister confirm the amount of money that has been saved as a result of the changes I brought in to the equality, diversity and inclusion guidance in the civil service? Will he also say if he will be maintaining those changes, or does he seek to overturn that policy?