Commons
Oral Questions
Housing, Communities and Local Government
15 June 2026
Topical Questions
T4. New towns such as Tempsford should offer an opportunity to ease development pressures, not add to them, so I thank the Minister for listening to my representations, and ensuring that if Tempsford comes forward, it will be included in Central Bedfordshire council’s housing target, rather than bei…
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 June 2026
Brain Cancer
I thank my hon. Friend for the moving way in which he is opening today’s debate. It has been really heartbreaking to hear from my constituent Hayley about the battles that her granddaughter Lily has had to go through to try to find effective treatments for her brain tumour. The Brain Tumour Charity …
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
19 May 2026
2 contributions
Criminal Justice System: Support for Men and Boys
12. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support men and boys through the criminal justice system.
The Anti-Slavery Commissioner recently called out the targeted online grooming of young men by county lines gangs. That is far from being an isolated case of such targeting. Young men growing up in Britain today are all too often targeted by those in the worst corners of the internet—from those in t…
Commons
Debate
13 May 2026
6 contributions
New Developments: Unadopted Roads and Public Amenities
I know that pulses have been racing all day in Westminster, but the moment is finally here: we come to tonight’s Adjournment debate on unadopted housing estates. The House may not be quite as packed as the other House was for the speech His Majesty gave earlier, but I think we have some of the best …
Absolutely; this is a stealth tax, but the issue is far wider than that, as I will explain. I look forward to the Government’s work to address it in a root-and-branch manner.
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Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
Many of my constituents are rightly appalled that someone who betrayed not just our country but every single victim of Jeffrey Epstein was able to serve in such a prestigious position. Whatever the judgment in the security vetting file, that decision to appoint him was wrong, and I welcome the Prime…
Commons
Oral Questions
26 March 2026
Topical Questions
Rail users at Hitchin and Arlesey stations in my constituency have to put up with services that simply are not reliable enough. I am glad that, after pushing the operator, Ministers and officials, we have been able to drive up driver recruitment and secure crucial investment to upgrade the back-up s…
Commons
Westminster Hall
26 March 2026
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Craniocervical Instability
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate on a topic that, like him, I must confess I had not heard much about until I spoke to two of my constituents about it. Having heard from Sarah and Mark, who both suffer from craniocervical instability, I know that it is impossible for those suffe…
Commons
Proceedings
24 March 2026
6 contributions
Oil and Gas
Some of the broad themes of the topics that we are discussing today are very important. How do we drive down bills at a time when all our constituents will be worried about the cost of living? How do we provide energy security for our country at a time when the volatility of oil and gas around the w…
Not at all. I think that that is why the last Government’s shameful failure to invest in the transition—their failure, in fact, to do much to create a better offer for the 50% of North sea oil and gas workers who lost their jobs over the last decade—is so shocking. It is why we have to do better; it…
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Commons
Proceedings
19 March 2026
2 contributions
Climate Change
As always, my hon. Friend is making a powerful case about the breadth of issues that underline why it is so important that we act on climate change. It is often seen as a future issue, but my farmers are feeling the effects of volatile weather right now, just as some of my households felt the effect…
My hon. Friend is making a powerful argument. Doubters of the net zero agenda often suggest that, because it is an international problem, we should go slower. Does he find it utterly bizarre that some suggest we can get other countries to go faster by going slower and engaging less ourselves? Actual…
Commons
Oral Questions
19 March 2026
Business of the House
The events in the middle east have shown how exposed we remain to polluting and volatile oil and gas markets. Moving on to clean, domestically secure power is the long-term solution, but in the short term we should not allow gas producers to profiteer while they still far too often set the market pr…
Commons
Proceedings
18 March 2026
Student Loans
I will not claim that the apprenticeship system that the previous Government inherited was perfect, but he is right that at its best it was about getting hard-to-reach young people into skilled jobs that they would not otherwise be able to reach. Countless young people and employers in my constituen…
Commons
Proceedings
18 March 2026
2 contributions
Student Loans
Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
Will the hon. Member give way?
Commons
Debate
16 March 2026
Heating Oil Support
Having grown up in a household that relied on heating oil, I know how overlooked off-grid rural communities can feel. They were overlooked by the previous Government, who did not include them in energy price support for 200 days, and they have been overlooked by a regulatory framework that does not …
Commons
Oral Questions
16 March 2026
GP Contract
The welcome funding, alongside the contract, to hire 16,000 more GPs will be really encouraging news for my community. However, in high-growth areas such as mine, all too often it is physical space rather than funding for GPs that constrains practices. I am really glad that, after getting involved, …
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
2 March 2026
Service Children
I am really proud to represent so many service families, but many of those I have been working with are at the sharp end of failures in the SEND system. Regular moves between postings can exacerbate long waits for assessments and leave them particularly exposed to the postcode lottery in SEND provis…
Commons
Oral Questions
10 February 2026
Decarbonisation Schemes: GP Access
It was fantastic to see GB Energy invest in new, clean, bill-saving technology for the Bedford Road health centre in my constituency last week. That comes on top of the investments already seen at Lister hospital and Bedford hospital, which serve my constituency. Solar is good for the NHS and for th…
Commons
Westminster Hall
10 February 2026
Young Children’s Screen Time
I thank my hon. Friend not just for securing this debate, but for speaking powerfully as a parent about why this is so important. We must be honest: guidance is great, but it can often miss the mark when it comes to answering the questions that parents are actually asking. I am holding a forum later…
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 February 2026
8 contributions
Educational Outcomes: Disadvantaged Boys and Young Men
I beg to move,
That this House has considered educational outcomes for disadvantaged boys and young men.
It is a pleasure as always to serve under your chairship, Sir John. I am pleased to have secured a debate on this important topic today.
Last week, I had the pleasure of joining some truly ins…
The hon. Member is absolutely spot on. She highlighted a number of important themes that I hope to touch on later in my remarks.
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Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
2 February 2026
Topical Questions
T7. When visiting UK service personnel overseas at a NATO airbase, I was appalled to learn that many had been penalised by their home insurers by virtue of being posted abroad, despite the fact that these companies have signed up to the armed forces covenant. That goes against the very principle of …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 January 2026
Offshore Wind
I thank the Energy Secretary for the leadership he has shown with this record-breaking step forward for renewable power, which underlines our commitment to delivering the clean, secure energy our country is crying out for. It is important to note that the scale of energy secured—at a 40% lower cost …
Commons
Westminster Hall
12 January 2026
2 contributions
Call for General Election
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. It is now just over two years since I was first elected to represent the community I live in. There is really no greater privilege than getting to be here and stand up for our constituents’ concerns, particularly at a time when the stake…
If I heard the hon. Gentleman right, he criticised us for the £280 tax burden that basic rate taxpayers face because of the threshold freeze that is in effect this year. He knows, of course, that that threshold freeze was in his Government’s manifesto going into the general election and part of thei…
Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
6 January 2026
Topical Questions
I am delighted that we are investing in more rooftop solar. GB Energy supports the deployment of rooftop solar on schools and hospitals in my constituency, and the Government are taking up my proposal that it be a requirement to have it on all new housing, but how can we make sure that we are not mi…
Commons
Westminster Hall
6 January 2026
Therapeutic Play and Children’s Healthcare
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton and Wanstead (Mr Bailey) not just for securing the debate, but for continuing to live up to his true legend status by being so generous with interventions and speaking time.
Therapeutic play can all too often be seen as a nice-to-have in children’s healt…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
5 January 2026
Hate Crime
I welcome the Government’s commitment to tackling misogyny, but I am sure that Ministers will be as disgusted as I am by reports over recent weeks of users of the social media platform X being able to create sexualised images of women, including children, through its AI tool, Grok. What conversation…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
17 December 2025
UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations
Whatever one’s view of Brexit, leaving the Erasmus scheme was unambiguously an act of self-harm, denying the opportunity for thousands of young people across the country to study and learn abroad. I congratulate the Minister on re-securing those benefits, but they cannot just be the preserve of a na…