Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
8 July 2026
Engagements
Q5. The Deputy Prime Minister and most of us in the House have been victims of AI-generated fake news, also known as deepfakes. They mislead the public and disrupt our democracy. BBC news coverage and coverage from other news channels is also being AI manipulated to tell untruths. Will he, alongside…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
15 June 2026
Social Media Ban for Under-16s
The Secretary of State and I do not necessarily agree on the effectiveness of a ban, but we absolutely agree on companion chatbots. The entire business model of companion chatbots is to keep us and our children online for as long as possible, using grooming language, grooming behaviour and sometimes…
Commons
Proceedings
8 June 2026
Water Companies
I will raise with the Minister something that I have already raised with her in a letter about the impact of Anglian Water, another failing water company. There was no water on the hottest day of the year for families in Woburn Sands and the Brickhills. That is a disgrace. Around the same time, ther…
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 May 2026
3 contributions
Women’s Health and Wellbeing: Online Censorship
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the matter of the censorship of women’s health and wellbeing content online.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I want to flag at the beginning of this debate that I will be using a selection of words that big tech deems to…
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. He makes a really important point. It is so ingrained in us to go first to the internet to search for information. We have agreed ways to make sure health information is proper health information and that we are not getting bad science, but even when using the…
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Commons
Oral Questions
Science, Innovation and Technology
20 May 2026
Artificial Intelligence
One of the best ways to make sure that any AI developed contributes to innovation and growth is to set very high standards. We are lucky to have the British Standards Institute—the oldest standards institute in the world—and I am very lucky that it is based in Milton Keynes. Will the Minister join m…
Commons
Debate
28 April 2026
Select Committees
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Following my earlier point of order, I received an email from Conservative party headquarters. It contained a picture of an email that the Conservatives say that they sent to me ahead of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to my constituency. Although I ha…
Commons
Debate
28 April 2026
Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I understand that when an MP visits another MP’s constituency, the custom and practice is that they should give that MP due notice. The Leader of the Opposition came to my constituency but did not inform me that she would be there. I seek your advice on how best to r…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
23 April 2026
UK Biobank Data
Health datasets of the size that UK Biobank has are incredibly important, because they allow us to find answers to the huge health challenges that many of us face, whether that is pain, as the Minister referred to, dementia or heart conditions. My concern is that this breach will make people think t…
Commons
Oral Questions
23 April 2026
Business of the House
Mr Speaker, you and I agree that all women and girls should be safe on this estate, whether they are MPs, staff or visitors. We have been working together to ensure that we become the first White Ribbon-accredited Parliament in the world. What progress is being made to ensure that that accreditation…
Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
I want to take a moment to focus on the young women who were exploited, abused and raped by Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. For years they were trafficked for rape, with no one to turn to, and for years people did not believe them. The idea that Mandelson would call Epstein’s conviction “wrongful” …
Commons
Westminster Hall
13 April 2026
Statutory Menstrual Leave
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I declare an interest: I have adenomyosis. It took more than 30 years for it to be diagnosed. The average diagnosis time is nine years and four months. For ethnically diverse communities, it is over 11 years.
My story is not unusual. Fr…
Commons
Proceedings
25 March 2026
Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics
I welcome the Rycroft review and I very much enjoyed speaking to Philip Rycroft during the process. Beyond crypto and other financial donations, he says we need to tackle deepfakes, bots and disinformation; create a political ad library; and put in place greater investigatory powers for the Electora…
Commons
Proceedings
24 March 2026
2 contributions
Defence
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the problem with his Government’s drone strategy was that they did not invest in satellites, making us reliant on foreign satellites for full capability, and they did not invest in the radars, as we have, that cover all of Europe and north Africa, thereby making us…
I would like to take the gallant Minister back to his comments about when and why Britain should go to war. It is clear that the Conservatives have forgotten that the Leader of the Opposition made her comments during the offensive action, not the defensive action. Is the Minister concerned that we h…
Commons
Westminster Hall
23 March 2026
3 contributions
Puberty Blockers Clinical Trial
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I want to start with the expression, “Do no harm.” To be clear for the people who have come to speak to me—parents and young people themselves—we are doing them harm by not giving them the treatment they need, with the wait times of six …
I am not for hounding any particular individual. The only person I have referred to by name is Hilary Cass and she has been on the public record. I have been hounded for my views as well—
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Commons
Ministerial Statement
19 March 2026
International Development
I recognise how difficult today’s statement is—it is not a position that any Labour Government would ever want to be in. I welcome the commitment from the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister to return to 0.7% as quickly as possible. I particularly welcome the protection and focus on women and g…
Commons
Oral Questions
18 March 2026
2 contributions
Pornography: Regulation
2. What recent discussions she has had with the British Board of Film Classification on regulatory parity between online and offline pornography.
Like many colleagues in this House and the other place, I am deeply concerned about the current unacceptable regulatory gap between online and offline pornography, and the public share that concern. The findings of recent research conducted by the BBFC indicate that 64% of pornography users believe …
Commons
Debate
10 March 2026
2 contributions
Courts and Tribunals Bill
I appreciate that the hon. Member is into storytelling—it may be his next job—but what did he think was going to happen to the courts system when there was a 23% cut under the last Government? It was going to crumble. Does he not agree?
I am trying to understand the hon. Lady’s point. Is she saying that we should now extend jury trial to all trials, or that we should keep the status quo? Is she saying that it is sacrosanct and so should in fact be extended? I am confused.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
10 March 2026
Digital ID: Public Consultation
I am the mother of teenagers, and they cannot believe how difficult it is to access their data and interact with public services. They call it “cringe”, a bit like the response from the hon. Member for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire (Mike Wood). If we are to be a modern, digital Britain, embra…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
10 March 2026
Topical Questions
The loan charge was a scandal that affected tens of thousands of people across this country, some of whom were on very low pay and not given a choice by their employers. At the last Budget, the Government put forward changes. What assessment has the Minister made of how those changes will impact peo…
Commons
Westminster Hall
10 March 2026
Technology Sovereignty
I thank my kind colleagues. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. This is such a big debate. It is because we are all passionate about UK AI and the growth of the sector in the UK that it is so important, because the growing monopolies that are coming into our country are not actua…
Commons
Debate
2 March 2026
4 contributions
Representation of the People Bill
The most personal form of power each of us has is the power to choose. When we mark our ballot, we exercise something profound and meaningful: our power to decide freely what kind of future we want, and that choice belongs to each of us. But today it is clear that our power to freely decide our futu…
I completely agree. I think we all agree, no matter what side of the House we are on, that a misrepresentation of that kind distorts the electorate’s views. The reality is that it should be taken down. I think we can all agree on that fact.
Fourthly, law enforcement and regulatory bodies must have …
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Commons
Debate
24 February 2026
4 contributions
Online Harm: Child Protection
This week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and we must remember the acceleration of online harms. We have heard horrific accounts of ChatGPT giving young people diets of 600 calories per day, which is just appalling. We know the suffering and pain caused by seeing images tagged with the terms “an…
I absolutely do. My full sympathy goes to that family in my hon. Friend’s constituency—it is the worst thing in the world for a parent to lose a child. But we have to get this right, which is why it is right that we have a consultation. It does no child any good if we jump to a conclusion that does …
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Commons
Oral Questions
9 February 2026
Jimmy Lai: Prison Sentence
As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong, I want to say on my behalf and that of many of its members how we horrified we are. This case exemplifies the systematic dismantling of Hong Kong’s judicial independence. The proceedings under the national security law do not operate within…
Commons
Committee Stage
3 February 2026
3 contributions
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)
Q I have a question for Ian Hulme. In your role at the ICO, you are clearly looking at data security. Data is obviously one of the main goals of cyber-attacks. Data issues cut across every sector, and you are looking at a really broad sector of data, from individual identifiers to names, addresses, …
Q I want to move from software to hardware that is particularly vulnerable to potential cyber-attack, particularly from the integration of Chinese tech into SIPs, possibly making them vulnerable to cyber-attack by someone who knows the code into those bits of hardware. Should we be doing more to pro…
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Commons
Committee Stage
3 February 2026
2 contributions
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)
Q I want to go back to basics and get a bit of insight from you. What cyber risks are businesses currently facing, and how do you feel the Bill addresses those risks?
David Cook: The original NIS regulations came out of a directive from 2016, so this is 10 years old now, and the world changes quick…
Q A huge thank you to the panel. Many of my colleagues have already asked the question, so I appreciate you talking about the futureproofing in quantum, the international regulatory environment and the use of standards alongside regulation to drive up quality. You all have a huge amount of UK client…