Commons
Debate
11 September 2026
2 contributions
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
“Erskine May” gives this House a way to send what are called “suggested amendments” to the Lords as a separate motion alongside the Bill, when it goes to the other place. It has not been used since 2004, but does she recognise that if some Members of this House think certain amendments are crucial t…
Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Commons
Oral Questions
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
1 September 2026
China: Threat to UK Interests
Nine weeks ago, the Government were told that Chinese embassy guards were brandishing prohibited electroshock weapons and threatening peaceful vigil holders with them. The Chinese Communist party either breached articles 41 and 27 of the Vienna convention, or it procured these weapons illegally in t…
Commons
Proceedings
1 September 2026
Speaker’s Statement
Nine weeks ago, the Government were told that Chinese embassy guards were brandishing prohibited electroshock weapons and threatening peaceful vigil holders with them. The Chinese Communist party either breached articles 41 and 27 of the Vienna convention, or it procured these weapons illegally in t…
Commons
Statutory Instrument
1 September 2026
Delegated Legislation Committee
It is a real joy, as ever, to serve under your chairship, Mr Stringer.
The regulations before us are welcome. They will make it more convenient for people to register major events in their lives, some of which are the most immensely joyous, and some of which are profoundly heartbreaking. We in this…
Commons
Statutory Instrument
1 September 2026
General Committees
It is a real joy, as ever, to serve under your chairship, Mr Stringer.
The regulations before us are welcome. They will make it more convenient for people to register major events in their lives, some of which are the most immensely joyous, and some of which are profoundly heartbreaking. We in this…
Commons
Oral Questions
Transport
16 July 2026
Topical Questions
I am grateful to the Government for considering improvements to the A605 and Tinwell junctions on the A1, but the current plan is to put traffic lights in place and National Highways agrees that that is not the right approach. Will the Government put the funding, which is welcome, into widening the …
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
13 July 2026
British National Overseas Visa
Ann Widdecombe was a force of nature, and my heart goes out to all her friends and loved ones.
The BNO route has provided sanctuary for Hongkongers fleeing the autocracy of the Chinese Communist party. However, its effectiveness should not be measured in visas granted, but in whether people are act…
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
2 July 2026
Topical Questions
In early 2025, Rutland police caught a local shop owner red-handed with a carload of illegal fake cigarettes. Since then, I have reported this to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the police and trading standards, and nothing has happened. Will the Minister please haul in trading standards, because…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
2 July 2026
Historical Forced Adoption
To all the mothers and your stolen children who have wrongly carried grief and shame for so long, you were denied the love that you deserved and tortured by a state—and the silence only revictimized you. We are sorry. It is shameful that Barnardo’s and the Salvation Army have yet to apologise and fa…
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
30 June 2026
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation
Self-swab rape kits are not admissible in court, yet the company Enough is using SLAPPs to attack rape charities and survivors who dare to speak out against it. This is exactly why we need the sort of legislation that has been mentioned to come forward: to protect the victims and survivors of sexual…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
30 June 2026
National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
This week last year, I had multiple pulmonary emboli only a few weeks after giving birth. I am very grateful to Dr Laura Stephens, who saved my life and then was punished for ordering the test which found the emboli. Blood clots are the No. 1 cause of death in pregnant and post-partum women, and yet…
Commons
Debate
17 June 2026
National Security (State Threats) Bill (Allocation of Time)
Let me be clear from the outset that the Opposition support the Bill and want it on the statute book, but we cannot support the manner in which the Government are seeking to pass it. This motion, for something that seeks to make a permanent change to the criminal law of our country, was laid only la…
Commons
Debate
17 June 2026
6 contributions
National Security (State Threats) Bill
I beg to move amendment 16, page 2, line 12, at end insert—
“33AA Conduct relevant to designation
(1) For the purposes of section 33A, a body is to be regarded as involved in foreign power threat activity if the Secretary of State reasonably believes that the body is, or has been, involved in—
(a…
We have tabled 13 amendments, not to frustrate the Bill but to give it the necessary teeth. This Bill is soft where it should be hard, silent where it should speak, and blind where it should see. It is soft because, as drafted, it sets a higher bar to prosecute a person who supports the Islamic Revo…
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Commons
Statutory Instrument
16 June 2026
Draft Immigration (Leave to Enter and Remain) (Amendment) Order 2026
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I am grateful to the Minister for his remarks. The Conservative party supports this order and the sensible operational change that it makes. e-Gates were rolled out across our major airports under successive Conservative-led Governments, w…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
15 June 2026
Russian Shadow Fleet
I welcome the right hon. and gallant Member to his place, and I thank the Royal Marines, the Navy and the National Crime Agency for their work over this weekend. It is very important that we see more initiatives on this basis. Will the Secretary of State give the House the very specific cost of main…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
10 June 2026
Engagements
Lindsay Foreman and her husband Craig have not eaten in 32 and 23 days respectively. They are being held hostage by the terrorist Government of Iran, but this Government’s weak words have abandoned them, so will the Prime Minister stop raising their case and start fighting for them? He can do that b…
Commons
Proceedings
10 June 2026
Speaker’s Statement
Lindsay Foreman and her husband Craig have not eaten in 32 and 23 days respectively. They are being held hostage by the terrorist Government of Iran, but this Government’s weak words have abandoned them, so will the Prime Minister stop raising their case and start fighting for them? He can do that b…
Commons
Proceedings
8 June 2026
Digital Safety: Children
I welcome the Government’s belated move on social media, but can the Minister clarify whether the technology prevents photos from being taken in the first place, or whether it scans people’s devices to prevent them sending photos? There are understandable privacy concerns. The Minister’s Department …
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
8 June 2026
Topical Questions
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. In March, I requested two briefings from the Home Office as a member of His Majesty’s loyal Opposition: one on Islamist terrorism and one on the security threat in Northern Ireland. After months of chasing, at the end of last month I received a reply from a private s…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
8 June 2026
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy: Implementation
May I put on the record my sympathy for the family and colleagues of Sir Alex Younger? He was a true patriot.
Two years ago, this Government pledged to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, but the Minister responsible for delivering that promise has now resigned. In her resignati…
Commons
Proceedings
21 May 2026
4 contributions
Imprisonment of Craig and Lindsay Foreman in Iran
The hon. and learned Gentleman is making absolutely the right points. So far the Government have limited themselves to saying that Craig and Lindsay were innocent tourists, but they have not said categorically that they are not spies, despite promising to do so. They have also refused to say that th…
I thank the Minister for saying that he is pressing on the matter, and that he has been talking to our ambassador, but can he tell the House when he last spoke to his Iranian counterpart, and how many times in the past three months he has raised the case with his Iranian counterpart? With all due re…
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
19 May 2026
2 contributions
Open Prisons: Policy on Convicted Paedophiles
7. Whether his Department has a policy on the housing of convicted paedophiles in open prisons.
Paedophiles should be behind bars, not roaming our communities. I am afraid that the Minister’s words will ring hollow for my constituent who received a call in January and was told that her abuser, the paedophile, who was only two years into a nine-year sentence, had been moved into an open prison,…
Commons
Proceedings
18 May 2026
Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
Does the Secretary of State not concede that GDP per capita is down? Can he tell me that a single one of his constituents, apart from those on welfare, feels better off under this Government?