Commons
Proceedings
27 November 2025
Business of the House
Last Thursday, Baroness Hallett issued the second part of her important report on covid, which deals with the effectiveness, or ineffectiveness, of the Government’s response to covid and the £400 billion spent on it. After the first Hallett report, there was a statement; by now, I would have expecte…
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 November 2025
2 contributions
Pension Investment in UK Equities
Order. I remind hon. Members that they should bob if they wish to be called to speak. I intend to call the Lib Dem spokesman at 5.10 pm and three hon. Members wish to speak. They will have roughly six minutes each.
We have caught up a lot of time. I ask the Minister to leave a couple of minutes for the Member in charge to wind up.
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 November 2025
Bike Theft: Loughborough
I will call Dr Jeevun Sandher to move the motion and then the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the c…
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 November 2025
3 contributions
Violence against Women and Girls: London
Order. I remind Members that even if they are on the list, those who are able to should bob at the end of speeches if they want to catch my eye.
There are seven people bobbing and 38 minutes left, so the arithmetic is relatively simple: just over five minutes each. I will not impose a time limit, unless somebody abuses the situation.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Ministerial Statement
24 November 2025
Critical Minerals Strategy
I respect my hon. Friend’s optimism and his detailed technical knowledge of this issue. I suspect it is going to be very tough getting the supply lines as secure as he wants them to be, but does he also recognise that there is an absolute magnitude problem? I am sure he has read the book “Material W…
Commons
Proceedings
24 November 2025
Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban
Our police forces in this country have dealt with violent fans from other countries for a long time. I do not expect my hon. Friend to be familiar with the Bad Blue Boys of Dinamo Zagreb—probably the worst fans in Europe, responsible for deaths and imprisonments—or the ultras of Roma, Inter Milan or…
Commons
Debate
17 November 2025
Asylum Policy
I fully support the Home Secretary and her statement. It is a fundamental duty of Government to protect our borders and to know who is coming into this country—something that we have not known for some time. She has set herself a difficult task. Will she agree to publish targets for all the areas th…
Commons
Debate
11 November 2025
BBC Leadership
I do not think any reasonable person can think that the programme put out by “Panorama” was a mistake. It was clearly manipulation with a purpose, and unfortunately it follows a long line—I will not list all the examples, as other hon. Members have done that, but they include Gaza, anti-women trans …
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
29 October 2025
Engagements
Q12. The hon. Member for West Suffolk (Nick Timothy), when he was an official, produced a devastating report on the Home Office. Reading it, it shows a Department characterised by disarray and defeatism. There have been 12 Home Secretaries over the past 30 years. Some were better than others, but no…
Commons
Debate
20 October 2025
Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban
As my right hon. Friend will know from her discussions with the Jewish community—which will have been similar to those that I have had following the dreadful murders at the Heaton Park synagogue just over a fortnight ago—what they want is to be assured by the Government, local authorities and other …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 October 2025
Manchester Terrorism Attack
I thank the Home Secretary for her statement, and I am sure that the people of Crumpsall, where this atrocity took place, will welcome it. The only point I would add is that while these acts of antisemitism and violence are un-British, they are also inhuman—I think that is a better way to describe t…
Commons
Westminster Hall
10 September 2025
5 contributions
Stockton and Darlington Railway: 200th Anniversary Festival
I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate. I am not going to impose a time limit, but I am going to call the Front-Bench speakers to respond to the debate from 5.10 pm. With half an hour, the four people standing can work out how much time they have.
Order. Has the hon. Gentleman finished?
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
10 September 2025
10 contributions
Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access
Before I call Melanie Ward to move the motion, it is self-evident that this debate is well subscribed. At the moment, just based on the numbers who have put in to speak—there are some hon. Members who have turned up who have not put in to speak, which does not mean they cannot be called—it looks as …
Order. Will Members remain bobbed for a second so that we can calculate the time for speeches? I remind Members to bob after every speech. The speech time will be one minute and 30 seconds.
+8 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
9 September 2025
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
I sincerely congratulate my hon. Friend on his new position. I have to say to him that I have never found it a satisfactory basis for arguments or positions in this Chamber to say that those on the other side are doing it. However, I do think it is important that we are consistent. When we were in o…
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 September 2025
Pony and Trap Racing: Regulation
Order. I will call Sarah Green to move the motion. I will then call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. There will be no opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is…
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 September 2025
5 contributions
Defibrillators
We have a good attendance this morning. If hon. Members bob after a speech, whether or not they have put in to speak, that will enable us to do the complicated calculation of how much time we have. Rather than relying on me doing mental arithmetic on the hoof, the Clerk will calculate a reasonable s…
Order. There are three hon. Members left wishing to speak. We have done quite well, but I am going to reduce the time limit to one minute and 30 seconds, which still means taking a bite out of the wind-up speeches.
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Borders and Asylum
I do not envy the Home Secretary trying to clear up the mess that the last Government left on migration. I doubt, however, that the measures she is currently putting before the House will be as successful as she and I wish them to be. They do not really deal with the fact that many migrants are not …
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 July 2025
West Coast Main Line
First, the Minister of State in the House of Lords made it clear yesterday that since the cancellation of HS2, there is no plan for capacity. Does my hon. Friend agree that there must soon be a plan to increase capacity, preferably based on something like HS2?
Secondly, the point made by the hon. M…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
18 June 2025
HS2 Reset
This is the latest national scandal to arise in our attempts to bring in infrastructure schemes on budget and on time, but the taxpayer is not the only victim of the failure of this project so far; there are also the people of the north of England. HS2 was originally a scheme intended to help the ec…
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 June 2025
Transport Infrastructure: Cramlington and Killingworth
I will call Emma Foody to move the motion and the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge and the Minister. There will be no opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention for 30-minute debate…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
10 June 2025
Nuclear Power: Investment
I welcome the statement today, which is moving towards an energy mix that is less weather dependent. I also welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement of investment in nuclear fusion. There is one constant about nuclear fusion, which is that, starting from the original ideas in the 1950s, it has …
Commons
Debate
9 June 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
When I was building the second runway at Manchester airport, I had similar rants to my hon. Friend’s. I came to hate great crested newts, which were getting in the way of building that second runway. Surely there has to be a solution with balance, one that does not cost a quarter of a billion pounds…
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 June 2025
Inheritance Tax: Family-owned Businesses
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for being generous on this important issue. When she spoke about the contribution that family businesses make, she could have been talking about J. W. Lees, a brewery in my constituency that has a nearly 200-year history of making contributions to the local community a…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
20 May 2025
Topical Questions
T8. The European emissions trading scheme has a carbon price that is 50% higher than the UK’s. What assessment has the Chancellor made of the impact of joining the scheme on inflation in this country?