Commons
Oral Questions
18 November 2025
Topical Questions
The oil refining industry employs tens of thousands of people and is crucial to our energy security. It is also a key part of the ministerial brief. The sector is under immense pressure, so can the Minister tell the House when he will meet industry representatives directly?
Commons
Westminster Hall
18 November 2025
3 contributions
Land Use Change: Food Security
I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does she agree that that depleted confidence comes against the backdrop of all the pressures that she has discussed, including the pressures from the Government to increase house building, and the opportunity that farmers see to replace ara…
Does the hon. Lady regret that the Liberal Democrat manifesto said that the Liberal Democrats want to build even more houses than the Labour party?
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
17 November 2025
Asylum Policy
These steps are definitely a move in the right direction, and I am pleased that the Home Secretary has rejected the Liberal Democrats’ proposal to allow those who arrive in the UK illegally to work, which would, I think, be a ludicrous magnet that would attract more illegal migrants. However, she wi…
Commons
Proceedings
17 November 2025
Illegal Waste: Organised Crime
I think we are probably all agreed that illegal fly-tipping is a scourge on many of our constituencies. I praise Bromsgrove district council for its work to clear up illegal fly-tips. I am particularly concerned about the impact of cross-border crime. My constituency is adjacent to the west midlands…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
17 November 2025
Topical Questions
T7. With the Government looking to impose visa sanctions to tackle illegal migration, why did they vote against including such measures in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, and if Labour MPs will not swallow these plans, what will the Home Secretary do as a back-up?
Commons
Debate
12 November 2025
Energy
Will the Minister give way?
Commons
Debate
12 November 2025
9 contributions
Taxes
Can the hon. Gentleman clarify the bundle of contradictions that we have heard over the last year from Labour Members? I recall that, in July 2024, we heard from the former Leader of the House, the right hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell), that Labour had to abolish winter fuel payment…
I am not sure that I heard an answer to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Spelthorne (Lincoln Jopp). Does the hon. Member support a two-child cap, or would he like it removed?
+7 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
11 November 2025
Prisoner Releases in Error
Can the Justice Secretary tell the House whether in the last 16 months any prisoners have been accidentally released from Hewell Grange prison in Worcestershire and, if so, how many?
Commons
Oral Questions
11 November 2025
Topical Questions
T8. Why did the Government vote against releasing migrant crime data?
Commons
Oral Questions
11 November 2025
2 contributions
Managing Repeat Offenders
4. What steps his Department is taking to help support the Probation Service to manage repeat offenders who cross jurisdictional boundaries to avoid supervision.
Residents living in villages across north Worcestershire in my constituency of Bromsgrove are often victims of crime that originates from urban areas, including Birmingham. What message would the Minister send to my constituents who want a reassurance that the Probation Service is being strengthened…
Commons
Debate
4 November 2025
Welfare Spending
At the minute, an estimated 13 million households in this country—just over 50% of all households—are net recipients from the state, rather than net contributors to it. What would the Minister expect that figure to be by the end of this Parliament?
Commons
Debate
4 November 2025
6 contributions
Supporting High Streets
Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government present an illusion of choice? I will give him a very brief example. Two weeks ago, I met the owners of a business in my constituency—a young couple who own a hospitality business. They have two young children; one is three weeks old. They are buying a n…
Will the Minister give way?
+4 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
28 October 2025
2 contributions
China Spying Case
Does my hon. Friend agree that the most obvious point is that, despite the Government’s disappointment at the collapse of the trial—we have heard numerous Ministers, including the Prime Minister himself, stress that—it is shocking that they appear not to have done every single thing possible to bols…
Will the Minister give way?
Commons
Debate
28 October 2025
9 contributions
Stamp Duty Land Tax
The Minister is in no position to lecture on reducing the size of the state, given that when Labour attempted to reduce the welfare bill, it marched all of its MPs up the hill, only to march them down again, when it buckled under the pressure from its own Back Benchers.
Does the hon. Gentleman regret the fact that his Government have not honoured their pre-election promise to reduce council tax?
+7 more contributions in this session
Commons
Proceedings
23 October 2025
Business of the House
With the Government planning to bulldoze all over the green belt—other parties do not fare much better; the Liberal Democrats, in their manifesto, said they wanted to build even more houses—and given that the Conservatives have pledged to protect the green belt, will the Leader of the House explain …
Commons
Proceedings
23 October 2025
Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s Office
The Solicitor General has expressed several times her and, presumably, the Government’s disappointment at the fact that this did not go to trial. That disappointment would suggest that she and the Government wish for an alternative outcome. The simple point that I and my constituents cannot get our …
Commons
Oral Questions
Cabinet Office
23 October 2025
Topical Questions
T6. In the absence of a plan, the Government appear to be centralising power and bureaucracy in the form of new quangos. More than 25 have been created since this Government came into office. What is the Minister doing to drive ministerial accountability and, crucially, to ensure that there are suns…
Commons
Debate
21 October 2025
Cyber Extortion and Ransomware (Reporting)
I beg to move,
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require a company that meets a specified criteria to report any cyber extortion or ransomware attack on the company to the Government within a specified time after the attack; to make provision about the content of such reports, including a r…
Commons
Proceedings
16 October 2025
Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements
Earlier this week, the Security Minister, the hon. Member for Barnsley North (Dan Jarvis), came to this House and said that the National Security Adviser did not have any links to the 48 Group, a group that promotes economic links between the UK and China. Why did the Minister say that when the Nati…
Commons
Debate
15 October 2025
Jhoots Pharmacy
The way Jhoots is treating its workforce, the community and suppliers is frankly appalling. It is failing communities who desperately rely on it. The Government are planning to introduce a health Bill at some point in the coming months that will see the abolition of NHS England. Can the Minister upd…
Commons
Debate
13 October 2025
Digital ID
I am wholly opposed to this policy, as I know are many of my constituents. While the Government have talked about the so-called economic benefits of accessing services and digitalising how we interact with Government, my constituents are concerned about infringements on liberty and the shifting rela…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 October 2025
Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case
The Government say that they want to take a long-term and strategic approach to China, but that is exactly what China does, whether we are talking about it increasing control over supply chains to gain leverage over the west, the belt and road programme, or the debt-trap diplomacy with which it is a…
Commons
Oral Questions
13 October 2025
2 contributions
Long-term Empty Homes
8. What steps he is taking to bring long-term empty homes back into occupation.
I welcome the Minister to her new role. Will the Government consider introducing a policy whereby long-term empty properties brought back into use as homes will count towards a district’s housing target?
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
15 September 2025
2 contributions
Topical Questions
T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
I welcome the Home Secretary to her position. Does she have plans to introduce a statutory cap on in-bound migration?
Commons
Oral Questions
11 September 2025
Topical Questions
T6. With increasing e-scooter usage, a small number of people are increasingly conducting antisocial behaviour while riding around on these micromobility vehicles. That is of great concern to my constituents, and I am particularly concerned that there is no minimum age requirement for the purchase o…