Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
17 December 2025
Engagements
Q9. As the ghost of Christmas past scoops up the Prime Minister from his slumber in No. 10 this year, I wonder what he will show him on Christmas Eve. Maybe it will be the devastated family farmer putting up the “For Sale” sign in the yard, or the children hugging each other as their independent sch…
Commons
Oral Questions
16 December 2025
2 contributions
Open Prisons: Rehabilitation Placements
12. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of short placements in open prisons on the effectiveness of rehabilitation programmes.
I agree with what the Minister just said, but through the early release programme, and given the “third, third, third” model that the Government want to introduce to split sentencing in custody, prisons such as Kirkham in my constituency in Lancashire are seeing a much higher turnover among their op…
Commons
Westminster Hall
10 December 2025
Kashmir: Self-determination
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I know this is a matter in which the hon. Member for Bradford East (Imran Hussain) has long taken an interest, as have many hon. Members here today. I thank him for securing this debate. Although we might not agree on the way forward to f…
Commons
Oral Questions
2 December 2025
Cyber-attacks: Global Response
The whole House and country should rightly be concerned about cyber-attacks, from malign cyber-activity directed at MPs and the Electorate Commission, to Chinese companies linked to global malicious cyber-campaigns. When will this Government stand up to China and address this threat? When will they …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
20 November 2025
Business of the House
The 1 to 7 December is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week, which is run by Crohn’s & Colitis UK to raise awareness and generate conversations about what it is like to live with the condition. Many Members in this House will know people—and they will certainly have constituents—who suffer with th…
Commons
Proceedings
20 November 2025
Separation Centres: Terrorist Offenders
Hashem Abedi was in a separation centre at HMP Frankland when he attacked three prison officers with hot cooking oil. Under these rulings and interventions by European courts, determining the human rights of convicted and violent terrorists, does the Minister really think that it would be appropriat…
Commons
Westminster Hall
12 November 2025
7 contributions
Typhoon Fighter Sovereign Capability
I beg to move,
That this House has considered Typhoon fighter sovereign capability.
It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Christopher. I requested this debate as an opportunity to have the time and space for a more in-depth discussion about securing the future of our sovereign capab…
Forgive me; the hon. Lady will gather from my accent that I will have a slight Lancashire bias in this debate. However, it is obvious from the stats that BAE Systems produces on economic impact and jobs that the supply chain—all those who contribute to the production of Typhoons—is spread across the…
+5 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
5 November 2025
Financial Transparency: Overseas Territories
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I thank the hon. Member for Bolton West (Phil Brickell) for securing this debate. Given that he represents the constituency I was born and raised in, I follow his contributions in Parliament more than he probably realises. His contribution…
Commons
Debate
30 October 2025
Property Service Charges
I am sure that many Members have attended meetings with groups of residents who, in trying to resolve issues that are causing them so much anxiety, are at their wits’ end. We have an example in Fylde that is actually pre the management company. An estate has been developed, but it flooded during the…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
29 October 2025
UK-Türkiye Typhoon Export Deal
Ever since I was elected, it has been a critical part of my work to push to secure Typhoon orders at the Warton site because of the impact those orders would have not only on jobs across Fylde and Lancashire, but on our sovereign capability to build our own military aircraft. I massively welcome thi…
Commons
Debate
28 October 2025
5 contributions
Stamp Duty Land Tax
Will the hon. Member give way?
That point shows the complexity of the issue. Painting it with “14 years this” and “14 years that” does not represent what is happening. In Fylde, we have seen the largest amount of house building taking place in the villages and small towns, because developers know that they can get planning permis…
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Proceedings
23 October 2025
Business of the House
Lancashire county council has started a consultation on the future of adult social care. Critically, it includes a consultation on the future of 10 critical care homes across Lancashire. It says it has not made its mind up about the consultation, yet there is already a timeline for when those care h…
Commons
Oral Questions
Cabinet Office
23 October 2025
Topical Questions
The Minister was earlier asked about the ever-growing size of the civil service and the Cabinet Office under this Government and whether we would see those numbers coming down, not going up, next year. Instead of answering the question about the future, they talked about the past. Let me ask the que…
Commons
Oral Questions
Cabinet Office
23 October 2025
Future Pandemic Preparedness
During the pandemic, Government agencies, bodies and Departments suddenly discovered ways to comply with GDPR to share significant amounts of data, which was critical to managing the pandemic response. Since then, the shroud of using GDPR as a reason not to share data has once again choked opportuni…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
15 September 2025
2 contributions
Human Rights Act 1998: Immigration
11. What assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of disapplying the Human Rights Act 1998 to immigration matters.
I welcome the Home Secretary to her position. Every new appointment comes with an opportunity to take a fresh look at these matters. Clearly, since the 1950s, when the refugee convention and the European convention on human rights were first written, the world has changed significantly. Successive G…
Commons
Oral Questions
11 September 2025
2 contributions
Topical Questions
T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
If my constituents pay £2 for a bus ticket one day, then £3 for a bus ticket the next, their fare has increased by 50%, not gone down, has it not?
Commons
Debate
10 September 2025
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]
Political choices are made locally and nationally. Labour Members talk about the past 14 years, but we Conservatives won control of Lancashire county council in 2017, and increased the bus budget by 50%. We put on bus routes that the Labour party in Lancashire had made the political decision to cut,…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
9 September 2025
Infrastructure Strategy: Economic Growth
If the Chancellor is looking for some quick-win infrastructure projects that will unlock economic growth, I recommend taking a look at a passing loop on the South Fylde line, which would better connect trains to employment and education sites through more reliable services. It would also act as a bo…
Commons
Proceedings
4 September 2025
Business of the House
In December 2021, part of the roof of Kirkham baths was blown off during storm conditions, leaving Kirkham and all the surrounding rural areas without access to public baths. Since the operator was unable to fund the repairs, Fylde council has recently stepped in to purchase the baths for £1 and is …
Commons
Oral Questions
Solicitor General
4 September 2025
2 contributions
Grooming Gangs
2. What steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking to prosecute people for grooming gang offences.
From my time as Lancashire’s police commissioner, I have seen the fruits when the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the courts worked together to prioritise the listing of cases involving rape and serious sexual assault, as we know that victims and witnesses are less likely to continue with …
Commons
Debate
2 September 2025
Speciality Steel UK: Insolvency
This is the second crisis in the steel industry in the past year. It impacts other commercially operated industries that are critical to our national security. In Lancashire, the failure to place an order for 25 Typhoon jets is risking thousands of jobs in the critical defence industry of BAE System…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
10 July 2025
Resident Doctors: Industrial Action
My wife has a long-term chronic health condition; she has had to have two major lifesaving surgeries, and has had countless stays in hospitals. We have seen the fantastic work that many doctors and consultants do, but we have also seen the impact it has when there are cancellations and delays, or wh…
Commons
Proceedings
9 July 2025
Trial by Jury: Proposed Restrictions
Here we go again. Labour always talks tough on crime and always goes soft. The Minister talked about David Gauke as one of our own, as if that was some defence—I assure her that I probably have more in common with her than I do with David Gauke. That is not a good way to show off credentials on bein…
Commons
Proceedings
25 June 2025
Nuclear-certified Aircraft Procurement
On 6 January, I raised with the Minister in this Chamber the fact that refurbishing Typhoons will not touch the sides of maintaining the 6,000-strong workforce at Warton, in my constituency, and that relying on export orders that have not been secured will not keep the workforce in work for now, bef…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
25 June 2025
Engagements
Q5. Given that the right hon. Lady appears to be enjoying spending yet another week practising to be Prime Minister, maybe she can give us her view on who she would get rid of in the coming reshuffle. Would it be the Chancellor for killing economic growth? Would it be the Work and Pensions Secretary…