Commons
Westminster Hall
19 March 2026
3 contributions
Banking Services: Accessibility
I remind the hon. Member that he will have time to wind up at the end. Perhaps the Minister could start to conclude her remarks.
Very briefly. I would not normally allow this.
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Commons
Debate
18 March 2026
4 contributions
Fuel Duty
The shadow Secretary of State is talking about how money may be spent from taxation. I highlight that local authority road maintenance budgets halved from £4 billion to £2 billion in the 13-year period from 2006 to 2019. If we look at inflation, Bank of England data shows that from 2006 to 2026, ove…
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Commons
Ministerial Statement
5 March 2026
Energy Markets
My right hon. Friend talks about the lessons learned. Despite my youthful good looks, I recall the 1979 Iranian revolution—the last Iranian revolution—which led to a fuel crisis globally. The importance of what we are doing is underlined by the need for the energy transition and the need to improve …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
4 March 2026
China: Foreign Interference Arrests
I thank the Minister for his immediate update to the House, given the recency of this breaking news. He will know that the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy did its report on the case of Cash and Berry, in which it made certain recommendations. The National Security Act 2023 is now f…
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 March 2026
Work Capability Assessment Timescales
Order. I remind hon. Members to refer to each other as hon. Members, as opposed to “you”, which is, of course, me.
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 March 2026
5 contributions
NHS Capital Spending
Order. I remind Members that they must bob if they wish to be called in the debate. I first call Gareth Thomas, who will be followed by Steve Darling.
I expect speeches to be around five minutes so that we can get everyone in. Please be respectful to colleagues.
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Commons
Debate
2 March 2026
Representation of the People Bill
The Bill introduces timely reforms, such as extending the right to vote to young people, and it addresses the rising and ever more concerning issues of harassment and intimidation. With foreign interference expected to intensify the deterioration of the international security environment, and given …
Commons
Westminster Hall
28 January 2026
2 contributions
Local Authority Children’s Services
Order. I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to speak in the debate. Clearly, there are quite a few Members so, on the basis of what I have seen, I ask Members to speak for four to five minutes—an informal application of a time limit—and we will see how we get on.
The four to five minutes was not kept to as tightly as I would have hoped, so we will have to go to a formal four minutes for speeches because of the number of Members who have indicated that they wish to speak.
Commons
Proceedings
8 January 2026
7 contributions
Subsea Telecommunications Cables: Resilience and Crisis Preparedness
It is a pleasure to present the first report of this Parliament of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting time for this statement on the United Kingdom’s resilience and crisis preparedness in relation to subsea telecommunication c…
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his service on the Committee over so many years, which was hugely valued, and his point is absolutely fair. I have not seen the specific report that was published today, but it echoes the points that we have made in this report. We do not want to be alarmist, but…
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Commons
Westminster Hall
7 January 2026
2 contributions
Advanced Brain Cancer: Tissue Freezing
I remind Members that if they wish to be called in the debate, they should bob.
Thank you. Your point of order is noted.
Commons
Debate
6 January 2026
3 contributions
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
I start by welcoming the Bill, which is a serious step forward in protecting the United Kingdom from the great number of cyber-attacks that we face each day. As we have just heard from my right hon. Friend the Minister, this legislation is long overdue. A consultation started back in January 2022, a…
I thank my hon. Friend for sharing his lived experience. I can relate that to when I have spoken to organisations through the Business and Trade Committee and through my role on the Joint Committee for National Security Strategy. I have heard from organisations that have been impacted about how para…
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Commons
Debate
5 January 2026
Middle East and North Africa
I want to pick up on my hon. Friend’s point about the paucity of the aid getting in and to highlight the utter ridiculousness of how Israel is frustrating not just the quantity of aid but the basic elements of aid, such as tent poles, tents, razor blades and generators, by claiming that they are som…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
5 January 2026
Venezuela
There is clearly no question about the illegitimacy of Maduro’s presidency, but there are questions about President Trump driving a coach and horses through the global rules-based order. How should the UK now view the United States national security strategy in the light of this recent action?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
16 December 2025
Electoral Resilience
As Chair of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement following the case of Nathan Gill. There is nothing worse than the enemy within. It is quite clear that there are significant loopholes in the current system. Money is flooding in. In fact…
Commons
Proceedings
11 December 2025
2 contributions
US National Security Strategy
(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a statement on the United States national security strategy and its implications for the United Kingdom’s relationship with the United States.
Thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. Last weekend, the US Administration published its national security strategy, and it is the clearest articulation yet of President Trump’s ideological foundation. The whole House should be under no illusion. The United States consensus that h…
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
11 December 2025
Topical Questions
The UK-US economic prosperity deal was very welcome for the automotive sector, but there are some challenges for that sector. The current quota of 100,000 units and the quarterly thresholds are particularly difficult for small-volume and micro manufacturers, such as Aston Martin, McLaren and Morgan.…
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 December 2025
7 contributions
Oil Refining Sector
Order. I see that seven Members are looking to speak. Let us start with six-minute speeches and see how we progress.
Order.
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Commons
Debate
4 December 2025
Dawn Sturgess Inquiry
My thoughts, too, are with the family of Dawn Sturgess.
In 2010, Putin said:
“Traitors will kick the bucket, believe me.”
Post-Litvinenko, how can it be that our country can afford protection for, say, a former Prime Minister such as Liz Truss, but not for an asset such as Sergei Skripal? Yesterd…
Commons
Proceedings
4 December 2025
Business of the House
This week, in the wake of COP30, devastating floods across south-east Asia have affected the people of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, with 1,300 estimated to have died. Here in the UK, we are witnessing ever-more extreme weather events, be they the wettest winters or the driest summers. Such even…
Commons
Proceedings
3 December 2025
2 contributions
Official Secrets Act and Espionage
(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a statement on espionage cases and the Official Secrets Act.
I thank the Minister for his comments, and I thank Mr Speaker for granting this urgent question demonstrating the importance of parliamentary security, safety and sovereignty. The case of alleged spying on behalf of China caused widespread concern among the public and Members of both Houses. My Comm…
Commons
Debate
26 November 2025
2 contributions
Budget Resolutions
Here we are three years on from the Tory Truss kamikaze Budget. It is worth recalling just how bad that was—absolute carnage, with interest rates rocketing and mortgage market mayhem, and people and businesses left to pay for the Conservative chaos. That 49-day con trick was an ideological experimen…
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. That was one of the great failings of the last 14 or 15 years; when interest rates were at record lows, that was the time as a nation to invest in our infrastructure. Any business would have done that. Unfortunately, that did not happen.
Returning to producti…
Commons
Proceedings
16 October 2025
Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements
I am pleased that the Government published the witnessed statements last night, but clearly there are a lot of questions yet to be asked in terms of how this came about and what evidence there was that may not have been shared, or perhaps was not asked for. The Joint Committee met this morning to di…
Commons
Debate
15 October 2025
Police and Crime Commissioners (Accountability and Review)
I beg to move,
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about the accountability of police and crime commissioners; to make provision about the measurement of police and crime commissioners’ performance; to make provision about the setting of priorities for police and crime commissi…
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 September 2025
5 contributions
Consumer Affairs
I beg to move,
That this House has considered consumer affairs.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. You will be familiar with the expression “knowing the price of everything, but the value of nothing”. Perhaps that was yesteryear, or possibly yesterday, but today I want …
There are other products available, Dame Siobhain, but I will not give an entire list of them. Whatever someone’s guilty pleasure is, though, the products that they have grown up with and loved are not what they were.
Even tubes of toothpaste in boxes, despite appearing to be a similar size to the …
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Commons
Westminster Hall
10 September 2025
Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access
On that point, it is quite clear, as we have seen, that the number of deaths we have seen at the food distribution centres run by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—something like 3% of the total number of deaths—is an outrage. Does my hon. Friend agree that restoring an orderly supply of humanitarian aid…