Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
10 March 2026
Topical Questions
Every year, the UK loses £33.4 billion in tax revenue, as multinational corporations and the super-rich choose tax havens over tax payments. However, the UN tax convention has the potential to solve this problem, so will the Minister show leadership, not ambivalence, and commit to securing an ambiti…
Commons
Debate
9 March 2026
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Would the hon. Lady agree that the film-style age rating system that the Liberal Democrats have come up with speaks to exactly what she is saying? An app that allows children access to strangers or is built with an addictive algorithm, for example, would have a different age rating than something th…
Commons
Proceedings
5 March 2026
Business of the House
Coastal erosion has caused immense damage in South Devon to homes, businesses and a vital A road. The impact of winter storms this year illustrates the need for joined-up thinking in Government and for support for local government in coping financially with the eye-watering costs of repair. Can we h…
Commons
Westminster Hall
5 March 2026
4 contributions
World Book Day
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse, and to respond on behalf of my party to this debate on World Book Day. I commend the hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) for her excellent opening speech and for securing the debate.
World Book Day gives us a wonderful…
Communal groups where children can read together and parents can be encouraged can really boost a parent’s confidence in their ability to share a book with their child, because some parents to do not feel as confident reading as others do.
Last Friday night, I had the pleasure of reading “The Gruff…
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 March 2026
NHS Capital Spending
Medical devices and equipment are increasingly becoming pressure points as trusts rely on ageing, life-expired kit. Torbay and South Devon NHS foundation trust has had fantastic results in bowel surgery from a free trial of a robotic surgery system that it was offered, but it cannot afford to buy th…
Commons
Oral Questions
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
3 March 2026
2 contributions
West Bank: Illegal Settlements
21. What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the west bank.
Last year, the Israeli Government issued nearly 10,000 units of settlement housing tenders, which was more than the combined total of tenders over the previous six years. The extremists in Netanyahu’s Cabinet clearly have the explicit intention of undermining any prospect of a viable Palestinian sta…
Commons
Debate
2 March 2026
2 contributions
Representation of the People Bill
Will the hon. Lady give way?
Does my hon. Friend agree that, as our electoral system fractures into a multi-party system—we have traditionally had a system involving two parties in this country—there is a massive missed opportunity to use the Bill to introduce a commission that could bring forward a proportional voting system? …
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
2 March 2026
National Year of Reading: Phonics
Reading daily to young children is shown to have a direct correlation with better outcomes, qualifications and social mobility later in life. Just one book a day means a child will hear approximately 300,000 more words by the age of five than those who are not regularly read to. However, many parent…
Commons
Debate
26 February 2026
3 contributions
Bereaved Children: Government Support
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) for her powerful speech introducing the debate and for all her work on this subject.
It is normal in debates in this Chamber to bring the stories of our constituents to illustrate the issue, but today I am going to share my st…
I thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention.
In the UK, around 120 children are bereaved of a parent every day. By age 16, approximately one in 20 young people in the UK will have experienced the death of a parent. I became the chair of the Widowed and Young organisation and met loads of kids …
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
24 February 2026
4 contributions
Online Harm: Child Protection
On that point, will the Minister give way?
Will the Minister tell the House when the consultation will be launched?
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
24 February 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Does my hon. Friend agree that having a public inquiry would be a very public way for the British authorities and the state to show survivors that they have been the victim of some heinous crimes and to give them more confidence to come forward? We know that survivors of all kinds of sexual abuse an…
Commons
Petition
23 February 2026
Coastal Erosion in Start Bay
Coastal erosion has had a devastating impact on residents and businesses in communities across Start bay in South Devon in recent months. Coastal protections have been breached, properties have been damaged and the partial destruction of the A379 Slapton Line will have a significant economic and soc…
Commons
Debate
23 February 2026
Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving
I applaud the Government’s attempt to increase mainstream inclusion for children with SEND, and welcome the £1.8 billion set aside to ensure that children have access to experts, but as far as I can see, there is absolutely no mention in the White Paper of any new funding for increasing the number o…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
11 February 2026
Engagements
Q15. Last week, Start bay was devastated by storm damage. Homes and businesses were wrecked, and an important A road was severed. The thousands of people who use it to commute to school and work, and to get to healthcare, are stranded. Bus routes are broken and emergency vehicles are blocked. The pr…
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 February 2026
3 contributions
Hughes Report: Second Anniversary
Thank you, Dr Allin-Khan. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sarah Green) for securing this important debate.
Last Saturday marked two years since the publication of the Hughes report—two years since Patient Safety Commissioner Dr Henrietta Hughes set out clear and com…
Will the Minister give way?
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 February 2026
Postal Services: Rural Areas
I have had reports of my constituents receiving hospital appointment notices after the day of their appointment, so they have missed vital medical care, and people receiving bank cards and PINs at the same time, when they are supposed to be delivered separately for security reasons. An Evri driver d…
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 February 2026
Transport in the South-East
My hon. Friend talks about coastal roads. The A379, a glorious coastal road in my constituency, had already been damaged by storms in January, but last night huge chunks of it were literally washed into the sea. It is absolutely devastating, and I was shocked to be told by officials at the Departmen…
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
2 February 2026
Ukraine
As we approach the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this month, with reports that Russian troops have killed 12 people and injured 17 others after launching a drone strike on civilians just yesterday, the brutality of Putin’s war shows no sign of abating. So can the Secr…
Commons
Oral Questions
Women and Equalities
28 January 2026
Children in Poverty
We know that poor housing contributes to child poverty. I have recently heard concerns about social housing providers in my constituency failing to carry out vital repairs to tackle damp and mould—some even choose to sell off homes rather than bring them up to the standard required under Awaab’s law…
Commons
Westminster Hall
26 January 2026
Key Stage 1 Curriculum
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Barker. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) for opening the debate with such a well-argued and passionate speech that went to the heart of this debate. I commend Ruth Lue-Quee and all the petitioners for starting the p…
Commons
Debate
22 January 2026
Fishing Industry
As many Members may know, warmer sea temperatures brought unexpected numbers of octopus to the waters around South Devon last year, and my crab and lobster fishermen have seen their catch decimated. They have lost up to 80%, hauling empty pots for weeks on end. That means fleet members are now cance…
Commons
Oral Questions
Cabinet Office
22 January 2026
2 contributions
Emergency Preparedness
14. What steps his Department is taking to provide households with information on emergency preparedness.
As the Minister will know, a recent gas outage in my constituency left thousands of people without power, many for several days, and Cornwall has recently seen huge disruption from storm Goretti. Those incidents highlight how vulnerable households can be when essential services are disrupted. Given …
Commons
Westminster Hall
22 January 2026
International Day of Education
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz, and I thank the hon. Member for Southgate and Wood Green (Bambos Charalambous) for securing this debate.
What is education for? It is about so much more than remembering facts to pass exams. It is about lighting a spark in our children, and fo…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
20 January 2026
Mobile Phones and Social Media: Use by Children
I recently visited the Fulham boys school, which, 18 months ago, introduced a complete ban on smartphones in school. That school and Kingsbridge community college in my constituency both talk about the transformative effect that a ban has had. The most compelling evidence for me is this: where a sec…
Commons
Westminster Hall
20 January 2026
2 contributions
Water (Special Measures) Act 2025: Enforcement
My hon. Friend is being very generous with his time. In 2024, storm overflows at Harbertonford waste water treatment works discharged into the Harbourne river for more than 3,500 hours. In other words, raw sewage was pumped into the river, which flows into the glorious River Dart, for 40% of the yea…
In May 2024, an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in my constituency left 17,000 properties under a boil water notice for as long as two months. Although the incident is the subject of legal investigation, I would like to highlight my constituents’ frustration that the then CEO, Susan Davy, later picked…