Commons
Ministerial Statement
22 October 2025
Heathrow: National Airports Review
My right hon. Friend knows how ambitious I am for improving connectivity from Bracknell to Heathrow airport. Heathrow’s proposals say that it is exploring the option of promoting a new rail scheme that combines the objectives of a western rail link to Heathrow and southern rail access to Heathrow, a…
Commons
Westminster Hall
22 October 2025
Financial Inclusion
A key part of financial inclusion is supporting young people to be included and ensuring that they have essential skills, including financial literacy. Has the Minister spoken with any colleagues in the Department for Education about how we can make sure that young people have the right essential sk…
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 October 2025
Mandatory Digital ID
My hon. Friend raises the Online Safety Act. Some of my constituents have raised concerns about identity checks to access material online. Would it not have been far easier to prove one’s age online safely and securely if we already had a digital ID, and would that not have helped us to introduce sa…
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
20 October 2025
Topical Questions
T7. Let me first declare that I chair the all-party parliamentary group for schools, learning and assessment and the APPG on social mobility. Businesses, schools and young people in Bracknell Forest all tell me that essential skills such as financial, digital and media literacy, creative problem-sol…
Commons
Proceedings
16 October 2025
Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements
As the right hon. Member for Tonbridge (Tom Tugendhat) emphasises so emphatically, across the whole House we are appalled by the actions of the Chinese state. I want to go back to the precise law under which the charges were brought. The Act was first introduced in 1911 and the Conservatives set out…
Commons
Westminster Hall
16 October 2025
Ada Lovelace Day
As my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (Lizzi Collinge) and many others have so expertly touched on Ada Lovelace’s story, I thought I might—with your indulgence, Ms Furniss—touch on another champion of 19th-century science who has always inspired me: Mary Anning, a pioneering palae…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 October 2025
Northern Ireland Troubles
As the Secretary of State knows, I am a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, and we have been very engaged in this issue, not least because of the ruling of our courts that the previous Government’s attempt to legislate on this issue was unlawful because it would potentially grant immunity…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 October 2025
Middle East
I warmly welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, particularly his commitment to seeking a lasting, long-term peace in the region, because Israel will not be secure and the Palestinian people will not be free until we break this endless cycle of violence. Turning to the immediate situation on the gro…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
15 September 2025
Official Secrets Act
I have raised with the Security Minister on several occasions the fears of the Hong Kong community in Bracknell and across the country, and today is just another reminder of the long arm of the Chinese state that so worries my constituents. Given that, and given the real and genuine fears of the Hon…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
15 September 2025
2 contributions
Antisocial Behaviour
7. What recent progress her Department has made on tackling antisocial behaviour.
I thank the almost 500 constituents who responded to my summer road safety campaign. One of the top issues raised is the use of antisocial off-road bikes. I warmly welcome new measures in the Crime and Policing Bill to allow the police to seize these bikes without warning. Will my hon. Friend also l…
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 September 2025
Children with SEND: Assessments and Support
Early intervention is exactly the issue at play here. The reality is that for many families in my constituency who have managed to acquire an EHCP, it has come only after considerable delay. Does the hon. Lady agree that we must protect legal rights and move from a system that focuses too much on la…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
11 September 2025
Suicide Prevention
It is an honour to take part in the debate, which was so powerfully opened by my hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme (Lee Pitcher). I am grateful to colleagues for ensuring that suicide prevention remains at the top of our agenda.
As others have mentioned, yesterday wa…
Commons
Debate
11 September 2025
Life Sciences Investment
I welcome my right hon. Friend to his place. I also welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South West (Dr Ahmed) to his place as life sciences Minister in the Department of Health and Social Care.
I am incredibly ambitious for the life sciences in my constituency of Bracknell and across Berk…
Commons
Proceedings
10 September 2025
Qatar: Israeli Strike
A man-made famine in Gaza, increased settler violence in the west bank, and now this attack on sovereign Qatar: I fear that these are not the actions of an Israeli Government committed to peace. With that in mind, will my hon. Friend urge the Foreign Secretary to speak to our friends and allies and …
Commons
Debate
9 September 2025
3 contributions
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
I thank the right hon. Lady for giving way. I am going to give her another opportunity to confirm that she agrees with our Five Eyes allies that this is a good deal. Those are the people who back this deal.
The right hon. Lady comes to this Chamber claiming that this deal has astronomical costs and all that, but what she will not put on the record is the cost of the deal that the Conservatives were negotiating. She can say all she wants about that being a matter for the public record, but she needs to …
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
8 September 2025
Strategic Defence Review Recommendations: Timetable
The strategic defence review rightly highlighted the need for a whole-of-society approach to defence, including expanding the cadets by 30% by 2030. A key part of that has to include supporting more adult volunteers to give their time to the cadets. What steps is my right hon. Friend taking to ensur…
Commons
Westminster Hall
8 September 2025
4 contributions
Indefinite Leave to Remain
It is a honour to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. I welcome the Minister to his place. By way of ingratiating myself on behalf of my constituents, may I also say how much I like his socks, which I have been admiring?
The immigration White Paper rightly recognises that we need an immigrati…
On that point, will the hon. Lady give way?
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
4 September 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
I, for one, am perplexed. We have heard Opposition Members say that they want us to go faster and further in reforming the House of Lords, and we have heard them chuntering about the divine right of whoever and whatever in that place. Does the Minister agree that the Opposition seem to be rather con…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
4 September 2025
Early Education and Childcare
I welcome today’s announcement that this Government are again expanding school-based nurseries. That programme is already benefiting my constituents with the expansion of Uplands school nursery in Sandhurst. This summer, I also had the real pleasure of visiting Horseshoe Lake in Sandhurst to meet ch…
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 September 2025
Pavement Parking
The hon. Member is making a powerful argument. I hear all the time from constituents concerned about pavement parking on their streets. I also hear from constituents who live in areas of Bracknell where there is no choice but to park on the pavement because of the nature of the estates. For me the r…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Transnational Repression in the UK
I thank my fellow Committee member for representing our inquiry so well today and the Security Minister, who is in his place, for engaging with our inquiry. I recently hosted a meeting of the Bracknell Hong Kong community in my constituency. I was saddened but unfortunately not surprised to hear fro…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Borders and Asylum
The Home Secretary was right to emphasise that respect for each other and respect for the rule of law are fundamental British values, and they are underpinned by our robust human rights framework, which underscores and protects individual liberties. Winston Churchill knew that, which is why he was s…
Commons
Oral Questions
1 September 2025
Topical Questions
T9. Can my hon. Friend set out how this Government are reforming pensions long term to help people in Bracknell Forest and across the country to save for their futures?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
22 July 2025
Music Streaming: Label-led Principles
I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I really welcome the statement, which provides more support for grassroots music creators. It is also important that grassroots music creators have the grassroots music venues to play in, including the fantastic Acoustic …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
21 July 2025
Independent Water Commission
Thames Water has spent thousands of hours dumping sewage into the River Blackwater in Sandhurst and the Cut in Bracknell. Under this Government, it has been hit by the largest fine ever and its bonuses have been blocked, but now it seems to think that it should be allowed to get away with giving its…