Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
17 November 2025
Topical Questions
One of the major pull factors for illegal migrants crossing the channel is the fact that they can get jobs quite easily. Does the Home Secretary still support an amnesty for all undocumented workers?
Commons
Oral Questions
11 November 2025
Topical Questions
It has been reported in the media that we have prison officers working in our prisons who can barely speak a word of English. In fact, they are using flash cards to instruct prisoners to go back to their cells. It does not take a mastermind to realise that that is recipe for disaster. Will the Justi…
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
3 November 2025
Topical Questions
T4. I have a really simple question: do this Government consider China a national security threat?
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
3 November 2025
2 contributions
Army Recruitment
13. What steps his Department is taking to increase Army recruitment.
I share the Minister’s concerns over Army recruitment. Could she please explain to me why a young person would even consider a job in the armed forces if they may get a knock on the door in 50 years’ time to be charged with an offence when they were simply doing their duty?
Commons
Debate
21 October 2025
Sentencing Bill
On a point of order, Ms Ghani. The hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor) just swore at my hon. Friend the Member for Runcorn and Helsby (Sarah Pochin).
Commons
Proceedings
21 October 2025
Rape Gangs: National Statutory Inquiry
The cover-up continues. We have a Prime Minister who never wanted a national inquiry, we have a Minister who never wanted a national inquiry and we have the Labour Back Benchers who never wanted a national inquiry. Does the Minister agree that the victims of these horrific crimes will never get the …
Commons
Debate
20 October 2025
Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban
Last year, the chief constable of the West Midlands police force told Muslim elders that he would always police without fear or favour and that he would not tolerate any sort of racism, but the banning of Maccabi fans is quite clearly racism. Does the Secretary of State agree that if the police chie…
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 October 2025
8 contributions
Knife Crime
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the matter of knife crime.
As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. We know that knife crime is not a random event—it does not happen by accident. It is a consequence of decisions made by individuals who choose to carry kniv…
Of course, we welcome any sort of policy in the capital city and Ashfield that reduces knife crime, so I thank the hon. Member for his intervention.
We are all legislators, and if we cannot reduce knife crime and save lives, there is not much point in us being in this place. Some will say that we a…
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Commons
Oral Questions
14 October 2025
Net Zero: Evidence-based Policy
May I gently remind the Energy Secretary that it is his job to answer questions from MPs on behalf of their constituents? I will ask the same question that I asked him last time: if the UK became net zero tomorrow, by how much would it reduce the Earth’s temperature?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 October 2025
Manchester Terrorism Attack
While the Prime Minister is swanning around Egypt, shamelessly trying to claim credit for the Gaza-Israel peace deal, we have the Mayor of London stating that the chant “From the river to the sea” is not antisemitic. I think it is antisemitic. Does the Home Secretary agree with me or with the Mayor …
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
15 September 2025
2 contributions
Channel Crossings
3. What steps she is taking to help prevent migrants from crossing the English Channel illegally.
I have it on good authority that the people smugglers in northern Europe are absolutely delighted with Labour’s new Front-Bench team, and especially with the promotion of the hon. Member for Dover and Deal (Mike Tapp), because they know we will get more of the same from this Labour Government. The b…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Borders and Asylum
Every time the Home Secretary announces a new policy on illegal migration, illegal migration goes up, so I think a period of silence would be most welcome from her. Does she agree that the only way to stop the pull factor is to detain, deport and never allow illegal migrants to claim asylum in this …
Commons
Proceedings
22 July 2025
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery
What a pathetic turnout today from the party of the workers: just four Labour MPs have turned up to speak out on behalf of the Prax Lindsey workers. What I want to know from the Minister is if it is true that a foreign company has already been lined up to asset-strip and decommission this site—yes o…
Commons
Oral Questions
22 July 2025
Topical Questions
Brierley Park medical centre applied for funding from the primary care utilisation and modernisation fund earlier this year. It has been successful, but it has not yet had the money, and the money must be spent by the end of the year. Will the Secretary of State please tell my medical centre when it…
Commons
Proceedings
21 July 2025
Asylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal Activity
Illegal migrants crossing the channel are 24 times more likely to end up in British jails than British-born citizens, yet this Government allow thousands of unvetted males to enter this country who will commit horrific crimes like rape and murder, and there are some potential terrorists among them t…
Commons
Oral Questions
21 July 2025
2 contributions
Topical Questions
T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
Last week I visited the Outwood academy school in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, which has gone from double special measures to “good” in just three years under the leadership of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust. Will the Secretary of State please say a big thank you to the trust, and the staff, for helping …
Commons
Debate
14 July 2025
UK-France Migration: Co-operation
I have never heard such pathetic drivel in all my life as I have from the Home Secretary and her Back Benchers. It is not the people smugglers bringing illegal migrants over the channel but the French warships who transport them halfway and give them to British border security, who bring them to our…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 July 2025
State of Climate and Nature
The statement from the Energy Secretary sounded like a desperate attempt to save his own job, but he is right that the British people need protecting: they need protecting from the Energy Secretary, because businesses that I visit say every single week that his madcap ideas are killing growth, busin…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
9 July 2025
Engagements
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. During PMQs, my hon. Friend the Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) asked what I thought was quite a reasonable question. I knew what the question was going to be, but during PMQs, I could not hear a single word—like other Members in the Chamber, I am sure—because the …
Commons
Oral Questions
7 July 2025
Hostile State Threats
We know that terrorists and potential terrorists are coming on small boats across the English channel, so why is Border Force picking these people up and bringing them to the UK?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
16 June 2025
Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report
It is amazing, staggering, that Labour MPs can come here today and welcome an inquiry, yet when they were given the chance, they all voted against one. These girls—the victims of the Pakistani grooming gangs—were kidnapped, abused, drugged and raped, and when they reached out for help, everybody ign…
Commons
Debate
11 June 2025
10 contributions
British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
Before I start, I declare an interest in this debate as a member of the British Coal staff superannuation scheme, which, for the purpose of this debate, I will refer to as the BCSSS. Before I go on, I want to say a special thanks to the BCSSS Facebook campaign group, which has been a great source of…
Yes, I will come on to the women who worked in our industry a bit later, but the hon. Lady is absolutely correct. All we ask for now that the pits have gone—we still have the communities—is a fair day’s pay from our own pot of money. That pot of money is the £2.3 billion investment reserve fund. Tha…
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Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
21 May 2025
Engagements
Q9. This Prime Minister keeps telling his gullible Back Benchers that he has deported 24,000 people from this country since he came into power, but he will not say who these people are. It is my guess that they are people who came on work visas or students and that they were simply overstayers, but …
Commons
Debate
19 May 2025
National Security Act 2023: Charges
The Home Secretary said in her statement:
“The Iranian regime poses an unacceptable threat to our domestic security, which cannot continue.”
Yet we know that Iranians make up the third-largest group of illegal migrants crossing channel, so does the Home Secretary agree that any Iranians crossing t…