Commons
Debate
30 June 2026
2 contributions
Domestic Abuse and Public Life
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Apsana Begum) for raising this vital issue, and for her continued advocacy for victims and survivors of domestic abuse everywhere.
There are parts of this job that I find really difficult, and I know that my hon. Friend shares that. And th…
Thank you for your patience, Madam Deputy Speaker.
It is the most incredible privilege to be here in this Chamber to hear how my hon. Friend triumphed against the most horrendous abuse and to see her surrounded by her colleagues in the most supportive way possible. That feels like a real privilege,…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
8 June 2026
3 contributions
Topical Questions
Women and girls must feel and be safe everywhere, which is why we have provided funding for police to trial and evaluate Project Vigilant, where plain-clothed officers are deployed within the night-time economy to identify and de-escalate behaviours known to precede sexual offending. We are providin…
The VAWG strategy and the financial inclusion strategy set out ambitious commitments to tackle financial abuse. The Government are determined to embed the prevention of violence against women and girls across all Departments. Our VAWG strategy and the financial inclusion strategy are committed to ex…
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Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
8 June 2026
3 contributions
Mohamed al-Fayed: Alleged Abuse
It was an honour to be by the side of the Prime Minister when he met Fayed victim-survivors last week. I was proud that one of my first acts in post was to help facilitate the first meeting of this kind with these brave women. No one is above the law, and those who perpetrate or facilitate abuse mus…
I thank my hon. Friend for the work he is doing with the APPG. As the Prime Minister made clear, the Government are committed to engaging with the Fayed victim-survivors and ensuring that their concerns are addressed. I will shortly be in contact with them to follow up on the meeting last week, and …
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Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
I thank the Prime Minister for his statement, and I thank him even more for his apology about the appointment of Peter Madndelson. Speaking in the Chamber today, I want to once again commit to the record the words of Virginia Giuffre, which are particularly relevant to Peter Mandelson:
“Don't be fo…
Commons
Westminster Hall
24 March 2026
4 contributions
Reproductive Coercion
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the identification and prosecution of reproductive coercion.
We have all heard the narrative about the devious woman who gets pregnant to get what she wants: “She’s got pregnant to trap him. She’s after his money.” That was what I heard on loop from my…
We have all heard the narrative—the one where the devious woman gets pregnant to trap the man: “She’s only after his money. She just wants to trap him.” That was what I heard on loop when I was impregnated as a child. If anyone questioned why he, an older man in a position of power, got a 15-year-ol…
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Commons
Oral Questions
17 March 2026
Jury Trials
Since coming into this role, I have heard from more victims than I ever thought I would in a lifetime. They tell me their stories, and I believe them and listen. What I do not ask them to do is report, because nobody wants to put anybody in a system that is so unsustainable, and re-traumatise them. …
Commons
Debate
10 March 2026
4 contributions
Courts and Tribunals Bill
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
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Commons
Oral Questions
24 February 2026
2 contributions
Access to NHS Dental Services
23. What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to NHS dental services.
Fourteen years of Conservative rule has consequences for the children in my constituency. A quarter of them have tooth decay— [ Interruption. ] Conservative Members can shake their heads as much as they like, but this is the real-world impact of the decisions that they made. Those children are some …
Commons
Westminster Hall
12 February 2026
Healthy Relationships
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. A relationship that I admire for its equality is that of local constituents Mick and Jane Yates. They have been together for 16 years. To watch him go from being a councillor with many political demands, while his wife was not a councill…
Commons
Debate
4 February 2026
4 contributions
Lord Mandelson
Being a Member of Parliament is a huge privilege that brings with it a huge responsibility—a responsibility that Peter Mandelson made an absolute mockery of. He let down those on our Benches, this entire House, and the country more widely. His arrogance, sense of entitlement and abuse of power was d…
Will the Minister give way?
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Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
3 February 2026
Prison Estate: Safety
The reason I use this powerful Chamber to speak about crimes like rape is that I am desperate to encourage women across the country watching us to use their voice to speak out and report. I am so determined to support the Government in their changes because I am desperate, when these brave women com…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
8 January 2026
Road Safety Strategy
This year marks 13 years since the most incredible bestie that anybody could wish for—the ray of sunshine that I was lucky enough to have in my life—was killed on our road, leaving her two young boys. Ashya Vanner, I think about you every day. I also pay tribute to Amie Pearson and Chelsea Carlisle,…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
7 January 2026
Ukraine and Wider Operational Update
I welcome this statement from the Defence Secretary and I also welcome the comments from across the House about how the Prime Minister has been conducting himself in leading the coalition of the willing. At this time, we need consensus across British politics on how we support Ukraine. Does the Secr…
Commons
Debate
7 January 2026
Jury Trials
What has been missing from this debate is the word “victims.” We inherited a system in which there are criminals who will have chosen to spend Christmas at home with their children. They will still be at home with their children next year, and the year after that, because we have a system that allow…
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 December 2025
Palliative Care: North Derbyshire
I have received so many emails from really concerned constituents about this issue. There was one that stuck out: it was from a serving member of the armed forces, who wrote to me about her elderly mother who recently passed away at Ashgate. She was stationed abroad, but flew home to be with her mum…
Commons
Oral Questions
16 December 2025
Topical Questions
T3. I want to raise the case of my constituent from Pinxton. They were awarded a substantial amount of money at an employment tribunal over two years ago for unpaid wages. They have not been able to track down the company since then—it is using a shell address and is not responding to any correspond…
Commons
Debate
10 December 2025
2 contributions
Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
I welcome the debate and I thank the shadow Chancellor for giving way on the point about women. We are here to talk about the conduct of the most powerful woman in this country, who used her Budget to remove the rape clause, to take children out of poverty and to give justice to miners in my patch. …
Commons
Debate
20 November 2025
International Men’s Day
I am thrilled to be here to celebrate the incredible men among us, including my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock Chase (Josh Newbury). I thank him for sharing his story.
Men need to be celebrated today—those who pick up the pieces, make our lives better by being in them and provide positive role …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
20 November 2025
Migration: Settlement Pathway
In 2024, in the run-up to the election, I knocked on door after door where people told me that they were absolutely sick of our broken immigration system that we inherited from the Tories. They did not trust Reform, who are not here today, to tackle it. I welcome the intervention from our Home Secre…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
20 November 2025
Business of the House
The food hygiene rating scheme means that we can celebrate five-star venues, like Alleppey Kitchen my constituency, and we can all avoid the ones with one star, if we choose. Councillor David Bennett from Clowne is running a campaign to make it mandatory to display those ratings in England, just as …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 November 2025
Business of the House
Special educational needs families in Bolsover and across Derbyshire are let down by our dire education services that were ripped to ruin by the Tories and are now being failed by Reform. I met families earlier this year and heard heartbreaking stories of how they and their babies are being let down…
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 November 2025
2 contributions
Sixth-form Provision: Bolsover
I beg to move,
That this House has considered sixth form provision in Bolsover constituency.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler.
Residents of Bolsover must feel like they have déjà vu. My predecessor, Mark Fletcher, first raised the need for a sixth form in Bolsover in Parl…
I thank the hon. Member for his intervention.
Students are less likely to get A-levels in Bolsover than in any other part of Derbyshire. Some students do really well in their GCSEs and go on to a really good sixth form in Chesterfield, but it is more than 10 miles away. They have to get two buses: …
Commons
Debate
27 October 2025
Victims and Courts Bill
I will speak to Government new clause 14. It means that rapists will no longer have access to children conceived by their crime. It puts the right of survivors above the rights of criminals. It protects mummies and their precious babies. It is not okay that it took so long for the law to change—to k…
Commons
Proceedings
21 October 2025
Rape Gangs: National Statutory Inquiry
Today, the Government have announced that they will take parental responsibility away where a child is born of rape. That will protect grooming victims. Children in this country will no longer be the only proceed of crime that criminals can have lifelong access to. Does the Minister agree that survi…
Commons
Westminster Hall
16 October 2025
Ada Lovelace Day
I thank my hon. Friend for securing this debate. Ada Lovelace’s legacy is absolutely stellar, as everybody points out. I have the slightest link because I was lucky enough to get married in Newstead abbey, her father’s ancestral home—we all want a piece of Ada. Hers is a name that people recognise a…