Commons
Westminster Hall
9 July 2025
2 contributions
Neighbourhood Plans: Planning Decisions
Can I check the hon. Gentleman’s wellbeing, as he is not making a speech today? Is he fine and dandy? [Laughter.]
I remind the Minister to leave Dr Luke Evans a couple of minutes to wind up.
Commons
Debate
7 July 2025
Government Performance against Fiscal Rules
In November last year the Chancellor told the CBI conference that she was
“not coming back with more borrowing or more taxes.”
Will the Minister, as the Chancellor is not in the Chamber, reiterate that promise today, or has the Chancellor mishandled the economy so badly that she is now going to ha…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
1 July 2025
Topical Questions
Does the Chancellor believe that the changes she has made to employer’s national insurance contributions will lead to higher levels of employment, or will they lead to higher levels of unemployment?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
26 June 2025
G7 and NATO Summits
I welcome the increase in defence spending. Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to explain where the money is coming from, particularly as his Government continue to weaken our economy and when another expensive benefit U-turn—on top of the winter fuel U-turn—is on its way?
Commons
Debate
18 June 2025
6 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
Oh no!
Will the hon. Lady give way?
+4 more contributions in this session
Commons
Ministerial Statement
18 June 2025
HS2 Reset
The previous Government cancelled phase 2 of HS2, and from what the Secretary of State has said today, my understanding is that it remains cancelled and that phase 2 will not be reinstated. That being the case, can she let me know when the HS2’s safeguarding of land, particularly in the mid-Cheshire…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
16 June 2025
Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report
This Government have been dragged kicking and screaming to deliver a national inquiry, having dismissed the pleas of the nation as jumping on a far-right bandwagon. That reluctance is why my hon. Friend the Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe) will continue his inquiry and why I will be supportin…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
11 June 2025
Spending Review 2025
I know the Chancellor considers herself to be a world-leading economist, so can she tell me how it is that everyone in the country knew that hiking taxes on employers’ national insurance contributions—making it more expensive to employ people—would destroy jobs, destroy businesses and destroy the ec…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
9 June 2025
Winter Fuel Payment
I appreciate that this has been a humiliation for the Chancellor and that her credibility is in tatters—no wonder she is not here today to announce her own U-turn—but now that she and the Government have got a taste for climbdowns, may I urge them through the Minister, who unfortunately drew the sho…
Commons
Debate
5 June 2025
2 contributions
Bank Closures and Banking Hubs
I thank the hon. Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery) for his persistence, for securing this debate and for the work he has done and is doing to get banks back on the high street. Perhaps we should be grateful to the bankers, because, by their actions, they are the only group of people less p…
I agree—the lack of banks is a disgrace. Where do people go for their banking needs? The reality is that the banks that are closing have entered into an agreement with businesses and individuals; when they opened their bank account, they opened it with the bank on the high street. The business was t…
Commons
Oral Questions
Cabinet Office
5 June 2025
Relocating Civil Service Roles
When the Minister is moving civil service jobs outside London, may I remind him that there is much more to the north than just Manchester and Leeds? Why are the Government moving the Information Commissioner’s Office away from Wilmslow to Manchester, and what assessment has been done of the impact o…
Commons
Oral Questions
3 June 2025
2 contributions
Violent Offenders: Early Release
14. What discussions she has had with victims groups on the early release of violent offenders.
The Prisoners (Disclosure of Information about Victims) Act 2020, otherwise known as Helen’s law, should prevent the early release of murderers who do not disclose the location of their victims’ remains. However, there are loopholes in the law in cases where the murderer makes a disclosure but no re…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
2 June 2025
Topical Questions
Regarding non-crime hate incidents and the amount of police time taken to investigate them, does the Minister agree that the clue is in the name? They are “non-crime”. Does she also agree that already stretched police should focus their efforts on tackling real crime, rather than being the virtue-si…
Commons
Westminster Hall
22 May 2025
5 contributions
EU-UK Summit
Order. I remind Members that an intervention is an intervention and not a small speech. Others have put in to speak, so can we get to the question please?
Order. We must have just one person speaking at a time.
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
22 May 2025
Topical Questions
I will enter the great parliamentary ice cream competition and say that Cheshire, of course, does the best ice cream.
Given the huge riches in the Premier League, should there not be a greater expectation that more money flows down into grassroots football and non-league clubs such as Knutsford FC …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
20 May 2025
UK-EU Summit
With youth unemployment higher in Europe—in countries such as France, Spain, Portugal and Sweden—I can see why the EU pushed for a youth mobility scheme: to help get its youth unemployment figures down. Can the Prime Minister tell the House what impact assessment he has done of his youth scheme? Wha…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
20 May 2025
Topical Questions
I am sure that the Chancellor subscribes to the basic principle that if the cost of something is put up, we will see less of it. That is why Governments have, over many years, put taxes on things like smoking. Does she accept that the principle also applies to employing people—that the more expensiv…
Commons
Debate
12 May 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
I rise to speak in support of new clause 14. This Government came into power on the promise to “smash the gangs” and cut immigration numbers—what an empty, cynical slogan that turned out to be. The exact opposite happened: the gangs were emboldened and the Government lost control of illegal immigrat…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
12 May 2025
Immigration System
Without a third country such as Rwanda, can the Home Secretary tell the House where illegal immigrants whose country of origin cannot be established, because they have destroyed their documentation, will be deported to? Is it the case that they cannot be deported, and anyone who exploits that loopho…
Commons
Proceedings
12 May 2025
Protection of Prison Staff
Surely as a minimum, any prisoner who assaults a prison officer should automatically forfeit any right to early release and all privileges. Does the Minister agree? If so, when will he introduce that change? If not, why not?
Commons
Debate
8 May 2025
St George’s Day and English Affairs
I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) on bringing this debate to the House. I am delighted to join Members from across the House in celebrating St George’s day and English affairs, for it is only right that we take the time to celebrate our history, our heritage …
Commons
Oral Questions
6 May 2025
Neighbourhood Health Centres
Knutsford desperately needs a modern medical centre. The local GPs and the community are united in feeling that current provision is no longer fit for purpose. With the population growing, it cannot meet everybody’s needs. In the light of the Government’s announcement of £102 million to modernise GP…