Commons
Westminster Hall
6 January 2026
2 contributions
Future of Thames Water
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. We have heard about Thames Water’s incompetent management of the physical pipes and networks. I want to touch on the mismanagement of its finances: the profit and loss and the balance sheet.
In 2007, Macquarie, a big private equity grou…
Thames Water is not able to meet its financial obligations. The debt is trading at 5p in the pound. It says it is going to invest £20 billion in the next five years; it does not have the money. It cannot meet its obligations. While all that is going on, it is not repairing or investing in the pipes.…
Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
6 January 2026
Energy Transition
Could the Minister explain why the Government have rejected a higher bid for the Lindsey oil refinery that would have kept jobs, kept the refinery open and attracted more investment in favour of a lower bid that is destroying jobs, is mothballing the refinery and is against the growth interests that…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
5 January 2026
Venezuela
Maduro was an enemy of the west, and while there is disagreement in this House about the means, I think there is much agreement that the Venezuelan people are better off without him. Can I ask the Foreign Secretary to comment more about the constructive influence that the UK and other western allies…
Commons
Debate
5 January 2026
Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief
This partial U-turn on the dreadful family farm tax is partially welcomed by farmers in Boston and Skegness, but where is the Chancellor to come and admit the error of her ways? Jobs have been lost, investment has been slashed and, tragically, lives have been lost by this grief tax. Will the Ministe…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
16 December 2025
Electoral Resilience
The irony of hearing the Secretary of State talk about protecting democracy a week after cancelling mayoral elections will not be lost on millions of British voters. Nevertheless, we welcome the review, of course. Will the Secretary of State confirm that it will also cover the influence of the Chine…
Commons
Proceedings
16 December 2025
Chagossians: Trust Fund and Resettlement
The Minister talks warmly of the relationship with the Chagossians. They have, of course, just formed a Government in exile. Do the British Government recognise the Chagossian Government in exile?
Commons
Debate
15 December 2025
NHS: Winter Preparedness
This afternoon, I am hearing of resident doctors who are not BMA members, and who plan to go to work, as we would urge them to, being pressured and bullied by the BMA not to go to work. They are being told that locum doctors have been booked in their place, at huge extra cost to the NHS. Does the Se…
Commons
Proceedings
3 December 2025
Official Secrets Act and Espionage
This report by the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy is not only damning; it refers to “systemic failures”, “shambolic” aspects and “inadequate” communications. I am particularly struck by paragraphs 41 to 45, which call into question the judgment of the Director of Public Prosecutio…
Commons
Oral Questions
2 December 2025
2 contributions
Sudan: Ceasefire
6. What steps her Department is taking to help secure a ceasefire in Sudan.
I thank the Foreign Secretary. This is an appalling civil war, with all its atrocities. How concerned is the Foreign Secretary that the growing influence of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood is leading to the deliberate fomenting of extremism, and the rejection of ceasefire efforts by the Sudanese reg…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 December 2025
Office for Budget Responsibility Forecasts
It concerns me that the Minister has today, in this House, misled the House—inadvertently—on three separate occasions, as the Prime Minister inadvertently misled the British people this morning. Cutting borrowing is simply not the case. The OBR’s numbers show clearly that over the next five years Go…
Commons
Proceedings
27 November 2025
Right to Trial by Jury
Trial by jury is a fundamental principle of our justice system, engendering confidence among the British people. We all want to bring the backlogs down, but may I urge the Government to focus on the efficiencies, on technology and on additional investment? There is a fundamental point here: are the …
Commons
Debate
26 November 2025
5 contributions
Budget Resolutions
This Budget has been a car crash—the third car crash over which this Chancellor has presided. The first was last year’s Budget, which was so damaging to business confidence, to jobs, and to the farmers who provide the food for this great nation. The second was the run-up to this Budget, with so many…
The good news is that when Reform wins more and more elections next May, we will be able to get better value for council tax across the whole country.
I will keep going. Over the next five years, welfare spending will increase by £70 billion per annum. That shows that this is not a Budget for worke…
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Ministerial Statement
25 November 2025
2 contributions
G20 and Ukraine
May I remind the House that last year I personally donated a five-figure sum, bought a pick-up truck, filled it with first aid supplies, drove it with friends and colleagues to Ukraine, and donated it to the brave soldiers of Ukraine. My support and Reform’s support for Ukraine has been rock-solid t…
Rubbish!
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 November 2025
2 contributions
Pension Investment in UK Equities
It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen) on securing this debate.
In reality, equity investment from pensions is deteriorating because UK equities are not performing relative to their global counterparts. On…
Is the Minister aware that the quantity of listings on the London stock market has collapsed by about 80% in the last decade, and that the number of companies listed on AIM—the alternative investment market, which was the original growth market 40 years ago—has fallen to a 25-year low, so something …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
18 November 2025
2 contributions
ExxonMobil: Mossmorran
Another week, hundreds more jobs slaughtered on the altar of net stupid zero. It is leading to high energy costs, high policy costs and high taxes, and making this business—along with so many others—completely unviable. How many hundreds of thousands of other industrial workers are terrified that th…
Are you sure?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
18 November 2025
China Espionage: Government Security Response
It is not a coincidence that, just a few weeks after the collapse of the China spy case, MI5 is issuing this major espionage alert. China smells weakness. With regard to the embassy, while the Minister says it is a decision for another Minister, the reality is that it is a strategically important de…
Commons
Debate
17 November 2025
Budget: Press Briefings
Given the chaos around the Budget, none of us would be at all surprised if the date itself changed. Nevertheless, is the Treasury aware how incompetent it looks in the eyes of the markets, which are utterly aghast, and in the eyes of businesses, which have stopped investing and stopped hiring?
Commons
Proceedings
5 November 2025
Points of Order
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. After I spoke in the British Steel debate when the House was recalled on a Saturday back in April, three newspapers from the Mirror Group published false, inaccurate and, frankly, libellous statements about me that weekend, which were retweeted by a number …
Commons
Debate
3 November 2025
“Soldier F” Trial Verdict
Does the Secretary of State not understand that, given the judge’s comments that the evidence fell well short of the standard required, veterans do consider that that was a vexatious prosecution? They do consider that the prosecution of Soldier B is a vexatious prosecution, and they do feel utterly …
Commons
Proceedings
30 October 2025
3 contributions
Business of the House
How many does Reform get?
Given the Government’s difficulties and delays in establishing a public inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, will the Leader of the House and the Government consider establishing a Joint Committee of both Houses to look into it, with parliamentary powers to summon people and papers, to arrive at…
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Proceedings
29 October 2025
Gaza and Hamas
Yesterday it emerged that Hamas do know where the bodies of the remaining hostages are, as video evidence emerged of them playing games with one body, removing it from a building, burying it, then bringing along the International Red Cross and pretending that they had found it and dug it up. Do the …
Commons
Oral Questions
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
28 October 2025
Topical Questions
T6. As we speak, the Chagossians are in the High Court to try to stop the terrible Chagos surrender deal. Given this Government’s passion for international human rights, and that we all agree how badly the Chagossians have been treated, will the Government finally agree to grant them a referendum on…
Commons
Debate
27 October 2025
North Sea Oil and Gas Industry
Thousands more jobs are at risk, alongside the thousands of families and jobs at risk at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire, all because of this Government’s policies on net stupid zero, yet the Minister talks warmly about the growth prospects for Petrofac. To grow, we need an industry; to hav…