Commons
Debate
9 July 2026
Israeli Settlements: Trade Ban
My hon. Friend is making a powerful point. She points out that Conservative and Labour Governments have for decades recognised these settlements as illegal, and now things are worse than ever. We have recognised Palestine, which is a good thing, but with the expansion plan and the promised further o…
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
30 June 2026
2 contributions
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation
2. What steps his Department is taking to tackle strategic lawsuits against public participation.
Within our ancient, unwritten constitutional democracy, e-petitions have quickly established themselves as a way for the public to have their voices heard. So imagine the shock of my constituent Jason when he was served with a scary legal notice to desist by one of the world’s largest law firms, ins…
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 June 2026
6 contributions
State Pensioners: Personal Allowance
Will Members please bob if they wish to speak? Okay—not the most popular debate. It usually goes back and forth, but by process of elimination, I call Alison Griffiths.
Order. It is at my discretion whether I allow you to speak, Sir John, as you were not here at the start of John Lamont’s speech. Theoretically, I could be mean and say no, but I will be nice.
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Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
8 June 2026
Immigration Rules: Economic Impact
It is a fact to be proud of that four of the world’s 10 greatest universities in the global rankings are in the UK, including Imperial College London’s White City campus in my constituency. We punch way above our population weight and our universities are genuine engines of growth. However, evidence…
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
21 May 2026
3 contributions
Ticket Reselling
2. What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on the role of the Competition and Markets Authority in the resale of tickets for sporting and cultural events. [R]
Ending ticketing scandals was a manifesto pledge prompted by the Oasis surge-pricing scandal, but it appears only in draft form in the King’s Speech. Peak gig-going season is upon us—maybe even for you, Mr Speaker, with your Motown habit—as is a cost of living crisis. [Interruption.] We all know abo…
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Commons
Debate
20 May 2026
Defence Readiness
My hon. Friend is making a powerful case for how investing in our armed forces and defence, after 14 years of Tory neglect, is imperative to get Britain growing and for our defence preparedness, but does he agree that these capabilities must always be exercised in the right way? Thirty UK arms licen…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
19 May 2026
High Speed 2 Reset
I welcome the honesty and clarity, after years of sitting opposite the Conservatives and not knowing whether HS2 was happening at all, or where it would start and stop—it was going to be a Y-shape in the beginning. This is good news, in a way. I echo the praise for Mark Wild, who has met with my res…
Commons
Debate
19 May 2026
High Speed 2: Impact on Communities
I also have fond memories of Cheryl Gillan, who I stood against in 2005. The hon. Lady knows my seat well, and the things she describes have a lot of resonance with Wells House Road, NW10, which I think is the most blighted road in England. An email from a resident there today said:
“We were told t…
Commons
Oral Questions
23 April 2026
Ministerial Code
It is really great that Ministers have rapidly set about reforming the ministerial code so that never again will the public purse be forced to pay out £253,720 for ex-Ministers who were in post for less than six months, as happened in 2022 under the Tories. Now that we hear about Peter Mandelson, th…
Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
I thank the Prime Minister for his heartfelt statement and—if we are judging parties on actions, not words—for reviving the post of anti-corruption tsar. It was vacant for years and years under three of his predecessors, starting with Boris Johnson’s lockdown breaches. Now that we have the heavyweig…
Commons
Oral Questions
16 April 2026
BBC
Thankfully, the BBC is nothing like the public service broadcaster in Hungary—I was there monitoring elections; the winner, Péter Magyar, said that it is like North Korean propaganda. To protect Auntie Beeb, will my right hon. Friend reconsider the anomaly that, despite being a fixed-income public b…
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 March 2026
3 contributions
Productivity and Economic Growth: East Midlands
Order. Can everyone who wants to speak stand so that we can calculate the time limit? It is going to be three-minutes, I am afraid. I call Ed Argar to set an exemplary example.
Order. One of the displays is defunct, so it may be difficult for Members to see when their three minutes have ended. I will signal 30 seconds before their time runs out.
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Commons
Westminster Hall
17 March 2026
Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme
Order. I will call Natasha Irons to move the motion and then I will call the Minister to respond. Other Members can make a speech with prior permission from the mover of the motion, which I think on this occasion has already been secured. As this is one of those 30-minute wonders, there is no time f…
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 March 2026
4 contributions
Healthcare in Rural Areas
This is a popular debate, so there will be a time limit of three minutes to begin with, but it might drop down. The first exemplar of perfect timing will be Samantha Niblett.
Order. Potentially the final three-minute speech will be Henry Tufnell, and then we might have to drop the time limit to two minutes.
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Commons
Westminster Hall
4 March 2026
3 contributions
Energy Security and Net Zero: Scotland
I will call Susan Murray to move the motion and then the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with the prior permission of Susan Murray and the Minister. Because this is a 30-minute debate, there will not be an opportunity for Susan Murray to make a winding-up…
Order. Can I just remind the hon. Member about use of the word “you”? I always get told off by the Deputy Speaker for it. “You” means me, because I am in the Chair. It should be, “Does the hon. Member agree?” But I think we get the point.
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Commons
Westminster Hall
4 March 2026
NATO and the High Arctic
Order. I remind Members to bob if they want to speak, and then we will work out who is next.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
2 March 2026
Middle East
Door-knocking in Ealing yesterday, I met a student whose parents fled Iran in 1979, and who told me how overjoyed they are to get rid of this despotic, tyrannical regime. Yet the methods used surely risk undermining the rules-based order. A girls’ school was hit, with 150 kids killed; we appear to h…
Commons
Oral Questions
25 February 2026
Electronic Travel Authorisation: Dual Nationals
After 40 years in the UK, it was the proudest moment of Petra Gartzen’s life when she obtained British citizenship. She is on holiday in Spain, and was shocked to discover that she will not be able to re-enter with her normal German travel document, because she is a dual national. Up until now, she …
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 February 2026
3 contributions
Diesel Vehicles: Defeat Devices
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the matter of defeat devices in diesel vehicles.
It is a true pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell.
It was over a decade ago that the automotive industry, and indeed the world, was rocked by dieselgate, the Volkswagen emissions scandal. T…
The hon. Gentleman makes such an excellent point as he always does. It is an honour to be intervened on by him. As he said, this was done with intent all over the British Isles, in all our nations. He mentioned the VW scandal. As I say, there could be worse round the corner. Despite the outlawing of…
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Commons
Debate
5 February 2026
2 contributions
Occupied Palestinian Territories: Genocide Risk Assessment
We have seen UK recognition of Palestine become a reality and a Gaza ceasefire under Labour, but still 70,000 Palestinians have been killed—a figure now accepted by Israel—including 500 people since the ceasefire. We have seen repeated forcible displacement and whole neighbourhoods gone. Is this gen…
I completely agree with my hon. Friend. He used to work for Save the Children, which has also been de-registered—the shame of it. We must act.
There has been a systematic discrediting of the UN. United Nations Relief and Works Agency buildings have been destroyed, and Francesca Albanese has been ac…
Commons
Debate
2 February 2026
China and Japan
I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on last week’s handsome wins, including on visas in China—I just wondered whether the same issue arose in Japan. I did a brilliant visit to the Japan London school in my seat the other day, but that school is finding the dogmatic visa changes made by t…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 January 2026
Iran
After the false dawns of the Arab spring and the “zan, zendegi, azadi” movement, I ask my right hon. Friend to stand firmly with the Iranian diaspora here—many of whom came after the ’79 revolution—against this brutal, repressive and tyrannical regime, particularly those who are critical of it from …
Commons
Westminster Hall
12 January 2026
6 contributions
Call for General Election
I think they all had to ask for permission. They should return for the concluding speeches, but we are finishing a bit earlier than we thought. We are already on the Front-Bench speeches. Usually, that would be 45 minutes before the end. I can inform the Chairman of Ways and Means and get some clari…
When you were “in love with a beautiful woman”!
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Commons
Westminster Hall
17 December 2025
Palliative Care: North Derbyshire
This is a 30-minute debate so, as I said in the preamble, a wind-up speech is prohibited, but the two of you can confer after the debate.
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 December 2025
3 contributions
Asylum Reforms: Protected Characteristics
I remind Members to bob if they wish to speak, so we can calculate the time limit on speeches. I call John McDonnell, with no time limit.
Order. I am obliged to call the Front Benchers at 10.28, so if Members keep their remarks to seven minutes, everyone will get in.
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