Commons
Proceedings
8 July 2026
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
The Hunstanton coastguard rescue officers I have met responded to 150 emergency shouts last year, and the small payment helped them to perform this role for locals and visitors alike. However, with 50% of officers in East Anglia saying they would quit or reduce their availability, is the Minister re…
Commons
Debate
1 July 2026
2 contributions
Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill
I will be speaking primarily to new clauses 4 and 5 tabled in my name and those of my hon. Friends, specifically related to the electricity generator levy and the HGV vehicle excise duty holiday.
I have to say to the Exchequer Secretary that it is quite nice to see a Treasury Bill that is so concis…
I am happy to clarify that for the Minister. My point was rather that if the Government are to introduce a higher levy rate on the basis that it will incentivise people to move into wholesale contracts for difference, it might be as well to have the policy for those wholesale contracts for differenc…
Commons
Debate
1 July 2026
4 contributions
Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill
I know that this legislation is fast-tracked, but the Minister did rattle through very rapidly. I will seek to follow her lead as best I can.
It is a pleasure to debate the Bill on Second Reading and its measures on increasing the electricity generator levy, increasing the mileage allowance and int…
I agree with the hon. Gentleman on that point, which I will come to shortly. I just note that when the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero had the opportunity to really break that link, he backed away from doing so. This measure does so in a limited way, but it does not make the ambi…
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Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
23 June 2026
Support for Industry
Next week, those swingeing 50% tariffs on steel imports will hit manufacturing businesses across the country, putting thousands of jobs at risk. While they are intended to protect domestic production, industry is warning that many grades simply are not made in the UK in the quantity needed. It is a …
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
23 June 2026
Defence Investment Plan
It is good that the Chancellor has had those meetings, but perhaps they have come too late, because when the former Defence Secretary resigned, he said that the Treasury was “unwilling” to provide the resources needed to defend the country against rising threats. The Chancellor has said that nationa…
Commons
Statutory Instrument
17 June 2026
5 contributions
Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2026
As the Minister rightly says, he has been landed in it by his colleagues.
Let us be in no doubt that these regulations, if approved, would cause serious damage to our manufacturing sector and be likely to result in the loss of thousands of skilled jobs. They replace the expiring UK steel safeguard measure. Two weeks from today, manufacturing and engineering businesses wil…
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Commons
Oral Questions
Transport
11 June 2026
Topical Questions
Passengers on Great Northern services to and from King’s Lynn are fed up with repeated weekend closures. Given that the Secretary of State now oversees the track and those trains, does she agree that discounts should be offered when rail replacement buses are in operation?
Commons
Oral Questions
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
4 June 2026
2 contributions
Cost of Fertiliser
5. What steps she is taking to help support farmers with the cost of fertiliser.
North West Norfolk is home to the leading UK producer of liquid fertilisers, whose production depends on urea ammonium nitrate. With no domestic supply and conflict in the middle east constraining global markets, the United States is our primary reliable source. Will the Minister urge the Department…
Commons
Statutory Instrument
3 June 2026
Draft Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026
I welcome the Minister to her new role. As she has set out, the draft regulations will make targeted changes to the UK’s money laundering regime, which is central to efforts to fight economic crime and terrorist financing. Since its introduction, there have been various changes underpinned by the in…
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
1 June 2026
Topical Questions
On Thursday I was on the water with King’s Lynn Sea Cadets and Royal Marine Cadets. As the Minister will know, the Army and Air Force cadets are wholly funded by the Ministry of Defence. What provision will the Royal Navy make to fund vital equipment, such as the new boats that those cadets need?
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
21 May 2026
Employment Rights Act 2025
Unemployment is rising, with youth unemployment now at 16%, and the jobs tax and the Employment Rights Act are destroying opportunities. Should Ministers not listen to the chief executive of M&S, who said that instead of “trying to run business,” the Government “should…understand business better…
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
19 May 2026
2 contributions
Prisoner Releases in Error
19. What estimate he has made of the number of prisoners released in error since July 2024.
Despite implementing what the Justice Secretary said were the strongest ever checks, every week criminals are being given a “Get out of jail free” card. How many of those 441 prisoners, wrongly let out of prison on Labour’s watch, remain at large, and why is it still taking days for the Prison Servi…
Commons
Oral Questions
28 April 2026
Fuel Costs: Support for Motorists
Whereas the Conservatives froze fuel duty for 14 years, Labour is planning to increase it by 5p, costing families £150 a year and hauliers £2,000. When the Chancellor was asked to reverse her hike, she said she was
“loath to spend Government money”
to do so. There is no such thing as Government mo…
Commons
Oral Questions
28 April 2026
Defence Industrial Strategy
The Chancellor said,
“National security always comes first”,
but she delayed the helicopter contract for our industrial base and we know that she is blocking the defence investment plan. Labour’s former Defence Secretary and secretary general of NATO, Lord Robertson, said,
“We cannot defend Brita…
Commons
Debate
22 April 2026
Government Procurement Strategy
Some £400 billion was spent on public procurement last year, so I would like to ask the Minister a question that I asked his predecessor over a year ago, which she was unable to answer then: what is the Government’s precise savings target from that budget?
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 April 2026
Cost of Heating Oil
I congratulate my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Steff Aquarone), on securing the debate.
In North West Norfolk, more than 20,000 households are off the gas grid. When people are struggling, urgent support is needed, so I welcome the crisis fund that Norfolk county counc…
Commons
Oral Questions
14 April 2026
Hospital Trusts: Performance
At the Queen Elizabeth hospital in King’s Lynn, nearly half of patients are waiting more than 18 weeks from referral to treatment and the trust is now part of the national improvement programme. Last month’s elective sprint delivered 2,000 additional elective activities, with evening and weekend wor…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 April 2026
North Atlantic Submarine Activity
I join the hon. and gallant Minister in paying tribute to our armed forces. After the Defence Secretary gave a press conference calling out this operation, Russia said that it posed no threat to undersea infrastructure. I asked this question when the Minister responded to an urgent question back in …
Commons
Debate
26 March 2026
Business of the House
It is six weeks since, at Prime Minister’s questions, I raised the case of my constituent who had three family members killed in a dangerous driving crime by a foreign offender, after which the Prisons Minister refused to act to prevent the offender’s deportation. I requested a meeting with the Mini…
Commons
Debate
26 March 2026
Local Government Reorganisation
The Government’s approach to devolution and local government reform has been chaotic and costly; the delay of the mayoral election in Norfolk and Suffolk is costing our counties £50 million in investment funding. Can the Minister confirm that the Government believe that the three-unitary model for N…
Commons
Oral Questions
24 March 2026
2 contributions
Household Energy Bills
14. What steps his Department is taking to help reduce household energy bills.
Twenty thousand households across North West Norfolk and 140,000 across the county are off the gas grid and paying much higher prices for heating oil. Ministers are creating an expectation that support will be there for those who need it. What action will the Government take if Norfolk county counci…
Commons
Debate
18 March 2026
Fuel Duty
Madam Deputy Speaker,
“In these difficult circumstances, while the cost of living remains high and with a backdrop of global uncertainty, increasing fuel duty next year would be the wrong choice” —[ Official Report , 30 October 2024; Vol. 755, c. 817.]
Those are not my words, as it happens, but I …
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 March 2026
4 contributions
Productivity and Economic Growth: East Midlands
I congratulate the hon. Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish) on securing the debate, and welcome the opportunity to speak on behalf of His Majesty’s Opposition about what is not only an important region but a great one, as he put it.
As we have heard, the east midlands is home to world-leading manuf…
We can trade statistics, but the context for that was the 2009 financial crash, which led to a deficit of 12% to 15%. [Interruption.] The Government who came in were the coalition Government, including our Liberal Democrat colleagues, and it was Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who …
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