Commons
Oral Questions
12 November 2025
Broadband Coverage
Increased gigabit coverage means more people accessing essential services online and an increasing need for cyber-security measures and a strong, open UK market for cloud services. Following recent outages, what assessment has the Minister made of the risk to Government digital services due to their…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
5 November 2025
Engagements
Q15. People across the country are fed up with extensive and needless delays caused by road, rail and utility works happening at the same time because of a failure to co-ordinate. My Transport (Duty to Cooperate) Bill would fix that and cut disruption, supporting communities and the economy. I under…
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
3 November 2025
Topical Questions
T5. According to media reports, the Secretary of State recently revealed in a speech that the UK had deployed troops to Israel to monitor the ceasefire in Gaza. Could he take this opportunity to update the House on the number and activities of any troops deployed there?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
22 October 2025
Heathrow: National Airports Review
Egham in my constituency is five miles from Heathrow, and it is not the fact that it is overflowing that I want to ask about today. The shadow Secretary of State for Transport, my right hon. Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Holden), visited the patch on Monday, and we waited 12 minu…
Commons
Oral Questions
Scotland
22 October 2025
2 contributions
Energy Security: North Sea Gas and Oil
2. What assessment he has made of the contribution of North sea gas and oil to energy security.
We all know that the Government’s energy policy is unsustainable. It has even been reported that the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is looking at authorising tiebacks to access new oil and gas wells using existing infrastructure in the North sea. Will the Secretary of State acknowledge …
Commons
Oral Questions
21 October 2025
Topical Questions
Children in Runnymede and Weybridge are waiting on average two years to get a diagnosis of autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS foundation trust. The trust is deviating from national guidance on new developmental pathways, and waiting times are e…
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 October 2025
2 contributions
Mandatory Digital ID
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I thank the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross-shire (Pete Wishart) for securing this timely and important debate, as well as his characteristically forceful and measured speech. It has been a fun debate with lots of contributions. I am su…
The point is that we have a sector that is already developing voluntary ID schemes. It is now being let down by the Government, who are bringing in their own mandatory scheme. Not once in the course of previous debates did the Minister mention that the Government intend to launch their own mandatory…
Commons
Proceedings
20 October 2025
Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement
I think most people would consider things that are threatening indeed to be threats, so we can only assume that the Minister has been instructed that he cannot make such a statement from the Dispatch Box. Will he help us to understand better the Government’s position on their relationship with China…
Commons
Debate
16 September 2025
2 contributions
Ambassador to the United States
Will the right hon. Member give way?
I am grateful to the right hon. Lady, who is very generous. As MPs, we put the interests of the country above all else. What does she make of the decision to appoint an individual to represent our country in difficult negotiations in the knowledge that the other country had compromising information …
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
16 September 2025
Topical Questions
T3. My team and I support many families navigating the special educational needs and disabilities system, and one of the challenges is delays in getting access to tribunal justice. As the Secretary of State gets to grips with his new role, will he make shortening those delays one of his priorities, …
Commons
Oral Questions
Science, Innovation and Technology
10 September 2025
Online Safety Act 2023: Effectiveness
I welcome the Secretary of State and the new ministerial team to their places, and thank the former team, who I have very much enjoyed sparring with over the past few months.
In light of the report of the Department’s plans to review the implementation of the Online Safety Act, can the Secretary of…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
9 September 2025
2 contributions
Employer National Insurance Contributions: Economic Growth
11. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in employer national insurance contributions on businesses.
I am not particularly interested in who the Minister is backing in the deputy leadership contest, but I welcome him to his place. Lebanese Please is a fantastic restaurant in Weybridge, but like many hospitality companies, it is struggling with the impact of national insurance increases. If the part…
Commons
Statutory Instrument
2 September 2025
Draft Online Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. Thank you for your guidance at the start of the debate. Given the narrow scope of this SI, I will make some very brief introductory remarks about the Online Safety Act before going into the detail of the SI.
Nearly two years ago, under…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Middle East
I am deeply concerned by the misery, suffering and death in Gaza. I thank the Foreign Secretary for the work he is doing with friends and allies in the region, which is a key part of solving the problem. I also support a two-state solution, but is he not concerned that the ultimatum regarding unilat…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Borders and Asylum
The Home Secretary is right to talk about tackling the push and pull factors—something we worked towards tackling when we were in government, despite challenges with bringing forward the use of third countries. That is because we need both a deterrent and a place to send people whose country of orig…
Commons
Oral Questions
22 July 2025
Topical Questions
Eight years ago, Weybridge community hospital burned down. After a long journey, the replacement finally received planning consent last week; all it needs now is for the Secretary of State to sign the cheque on the dotted line. Will he do so as soon as possible?
Commons
Debate
21 July 2025
Victory over Japan: 80th Anniversary
On 8 May 1945 at 3 pm, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a radio announcement that Germany had surrendered and the war in Europe had come to an end. In towns and cities across the nation, people gathered in their communities to remember those they had lost and, for so many, to rejoice that the w…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
21 July 2025
Independent Water Commission
The quality of a river is about not just the water that goes into it, but the maintenance of the river itself. My constituents have been failed over and over again by the Environment Agency in the maintenance of our waterways. Given the Secretary of State’s enthusiasm for breaking apart quangos, wil…
Commons
Oral Questions
21 July 2025
2 contributions
Magna Carta School
14. If she will provide a timeline for the completion of construction works at the Magna Carta school in Egham.
I thank the Minister for his answer. Can he clarify whether the Magna Carta school will have a full rebuild, due to the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or is it just the science and arts block that will be rebuilt? Will he meet me to discuss this issue and the work that will take…
Commons
Proceedings
17 July 2025
Social Media: Misinformation and Algorithms
I thank the hon. Lady and the Select Committee that she chairs for delivering this important review. I also thank her for her statement to the House, which has highlighted the scale of the challenge we face in relation to the proliferation of misleading and harmful content online. I join her in putt…
Commons
Debate
30 June 2025
Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill
I want to reflect for a moment on the title of the Bill. It could easily have been called something a bit more prosaic, such as the Revocation of Citizenship Bill or the Withdrawal of Citizenship Bill, but the notion of deprivation is far more evocative. When we talk about deprivation, it is often i…
Commons
Oral Questions
Science, Innovation and Technology
25 June 2025
Topical Questions
Why are the Government ignoring the advice of the AI opportunities action plan to encourage the start-up and scaling of tech businesses in the UK and instead favouring market-dominant corporations from abroad over our own domestic businesses when awarding Government contracts?
Commons
Proceedings
23 June 2025
Pride Month
I am proud to speak in today’s debate on Pride Month; it is the first time I have done so. I also enjoy the distinction of being the first straight man to become a member of LGBT Conservatives, which involved a special resolution to approve my membership. Hopefully that will be the first and last co…
Commons
Debate
23 June 2025
UK Military Base Protection
When an extremist minority spreads division and intimidation and now has even attacked our military, prioritising foreign regions and their interests above our own, it is an attack on our country. It is treason. The primary job of our Government is to protect the UK, so I welcome the announcement to…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
23 June 2025
Middle East
I thank the Foreign Secretary and his Department for the work they are doing to protect British citizens here and abroad. What does he think needs to happen for Iran to abandon its ambitions to build and deploy a nuclear weapon?