Commons
Oral Questions
17 March 2026
2 contributions
Victims’ Rights
8. What steps he is taking to support victims’ rights.
The Minister will recall that last month I raised with her the case of Roksana Lecka, who was convicted of child cruelty at a nursery in Twickenham. Her victims’ parents were given only six days’ notice that she was being deported just a few months into her eight-year sentence, so although the victi…
Commons
Debate
10 March 2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill
I think that all of us across the House share the Justice Secretary’s passion for delivering justice more quickly for victims. I visited Isleworth Crown court at lunch time on Friday and spoke to barristers there. They impressed upon me that it is extremely rare that juries and jurors are the cause …
Commons
Westminster Hall
10 March 2026
2 contributions
English Rugby
I congratulate my hon. Friend on this important debate. I am of course the Member of Parliament who represents the home of English rugby; I also have the premiership team Harlequins in my constituency. But we also have grassroots clubs such as Thamesians, which is struggling for pitch space, particu…
On PE in schools, will the Minister or his counterparts in the Department for Education commit to publishing a national schools sport strategy and a multi-year funding settlement, with the sport premium having been scrapped and other funds such as the opening school facilities fund that have benefit…
Commons
Debate
9 March 2026
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
It is a pleasure to welcome the Bill back to the House of Commons, some 15 months after it started its passage at the beginning of last year. I am, however, extremely disappointed that the Government have provided such a small amount of time for us to discuss the numerous Lords amendments, and that …
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
2 March 2026
Topical Questions
The Secretary of State has quite rightly said that someone’s background should be no barrier to success, so if she does not propose to increase the pupil premium budget, will she confirm how many children will lose out when she seeks to rebalance it, and will she guarantee that the money will always…
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
2 March 2026
Supporting Children with SEND
Trust among families with special educational needs is at rock bottom. Their voices have often been ignored—sometimes with tragic consequences—so while many are open to reform, there is real concern that under the Government’s proposals tribunals will lose the ability to direct specific provision in…
Commons
Debate
24 February 2026
25 contributions
Online Harm: Child Protection
I beg to move,
That this House makes provision as set out in this Order:
(1) On Monday 9 March 2026:
(a) Standing Order No. 14(1) (which provides that government business shall have precedence at every sitting save as provided in that Order) shall not apply;
(b) any proceedings governed by this …
It is always a pleasure to give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is the first to intervene in the debate, and I entirely agree with him. I will touch on the point about phones in schools later, and I believe that we will have a chance to vote on that specific measure shortly, when the Children’s Wellb…
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Commons
Oral Questions
Transport
12 February 2026
2 contributions
Heathrow Expansion
14. What recent progress her Department has made on Heathrow expansion.
The Environmental Audit Committee recently found
“that the Government is proceeding without the necessary evidence base to sufficiently underpin its economic arguments for airport expansion.”
Now senior figures in the airline industry are warning about serious economic consequences of the unafford…
Commons
Westminster Hall
12 February 2026
5 contributions
Healthy Relationships
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I think it is the first time I have spoken in a debate that you have chaired and it is wonderful to see you there.
I congratulate and thank the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Maya Ellis) for securing this important debate today. Before …
I will just get to the end of my point, and then am very happy to give way. The time at which my husband wanted to take more parental leave when our first child was born was towards the end of the coalition Government, before the new parental leave rights had come into place. He could not take any p…
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
11 February 2026
Engagements
Q6. The manslaughter of baby Gigi Meehan at a nursery in Cheadle; 21 counts of child cruelty at Riverside nursery in Twickenham Green in my constituency; 56 charges of sexual assault and creating indecent images at a nursery in Camden; and, just this week, 21 counts of sexual abuse at a nursery in B…
Commons
Westminster Hall
10 February 2026
2 contributions
Inner-London Local Authorities: Funding
rose—
I apologise, Dr Murrison. The debate moved more quickly than I had anticipated. I thank the Minister for giving way despite my late arrival. I have a lot of sympathy with the Government’s aims; we all want to tackle deprivation and poverty. In my borough, the London borough of Richmond, we are going…
Commons
Proceedings
9 February 2026
Brain Tumour Survival Rates
The hon. Lady is making a very powerful speech, and I pay tribute to her for all her efforts in this area. I have a dear friend who was diagnosed with glioblastoma last summer, who has been through surgery and radiotherapy, and who is now in a clinical trial at the Royal Marsden hospital—I am not su…
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 February 2026
2 contributions
Nurseries and Early Years Providers: CCTV
I want to publicly thank the Minister for attending a roundtable with the parents of Twickenham Green nursery victims last year. The perpetrator is to be deported tomorrow, and many of those parents feel that justice has not been served, but the best justice would be to make sure that such a case do…
I know we are talking about CCTV, but another important thing that the Australian Government have just introduced is a register for early years providers, so that perpetrators can be stopped from going on to hurt other young victims, as happened in the Twickenham Green nursery case of Roksana Lecka.…
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
3 February 2026
Victim Support Services: Funding
Supporting victims of heinous crimes such as child abuse is paramount. Aside from support services, clear communication and transparency is key, yet the parents of the 21 babies abused by Roksana Lecka at the Riverside nursery in Twickenham Green were given less than a week’s notice that she would b…
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
2 February 2026
2 contributions
Defence Spending: 2030 Target
22. If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of holding cross-party talks on reaching 3% defence spending by 2030.
I appreciate what the Defence Secretary has just said, but with President Trump attempting to tear apart the international alliances that have kept us safe for decades, and with Putin waging war in Ukraine for almost four years, the world is changing fast. We need to come together as patriots to dec…
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 February 2026
2 contributions
Indefinite Leave to Remain
Will the hon. Member give way?
As well as the uncertainty caused by the extension from five to 10 years of the qualifying period for ILR, many families in my constituency have contacted me with another concern: where, at the moment, one parent stays at home to look after the children, if they are forced to go out to work in order…
Commons
Westminster Hall
28 January 2026
2 contributions
Local Authority Children’s Services
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Western. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr Forster) for securing this important debate and for his tireless dedication to ensuring that what happened to Sara Sharif never, ever happens to another child again.
We have heard a range…
It is a familiar story, and I completely agree with my hon. Friend.
I am getting an indication from the Chair that I am already overrunning, so I will try to cut my last points short. The Minister is aware that I have long campaigned on kinship care. The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill takes …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
26 January 2026
Police Reform White Paper
The White Paper states, on page 24:
“To build trust and increase accessibility, officers will also maintain a visible presence in local hubs, schools and community spaces”.
May I ask the Home Secretary how that vision marries with the fact that in London, under the Met’s “tough choices” programme,…
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
19 January 2026
Topical Questions
The evidence is undeniable: social media and the addictive algorithms that feed it are harming our children’s physical and mental health and impacting their sleep and their concentration and behaviour at school. With parents, children themselves and teachers crying out for change, and with cross-par…
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
19 January 2026
SEND: High-quality School Places
Shortly before Christmas, the Secretary of State announced to the media, rather than the House, welcome capital investment in specialist provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities, children for whom mainstream provision is simply not appropriate. However, digging into the…
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 January 2026
Gambling Harms: Children and Young People
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I congratulate the hon. Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Kevin McKenna) on his extremely knowledgeable and passionate opening speech. All the contributions that we have heard today have been based on a huge amount of knowledge, exper…
Commons
Debate
12 January 2026
Social Media: Non-consensual Sexual Deepfakes
I welcome the Secretary of State’s announcements. She rightly set out the abhorrent and criminal nature of the content being created through Grok. As well as being subjected to that abuse, our children are being exposed to harmful content not just on X, but on many social media platforms—together wi…
Commons
Oral Questions
Housing, Communities and Local Government
12 January 2026
Topical Questions
T2. The Secretary of State will be aware that the so-called fair funding settlement will leave my council of Richmond upon Thames some £29 million worse off over the next three years. It will leave our most vulnerable residents, including children with complex needs and elderly people, facing cuts i…
Commons
Debate
7 January 2026
Jury Trials
Isleworth Crown court, which is one of the closest courts to my constituency, closed down five of its 14 courtrooms last year because of maintenance issues and because of the cap on sitting days put in place by the previous Conservative Government and only partially lifted by this Government. Does m…
Commons
Debate
9 December 2025
Railways Bill
The Secretary of State is extolling the virtues of nationalisation. South Western Railway, which serves my constituents across Teddington, Twickenham, Hampton and Whitton, was nationalised earlier this year. We have only seen the service get worse and worse, with delays, cancellations and short-form…