Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
3 June 2026
Engagements
Q12. May I ask the Prime Minister about our national health service and what better treatments we can offer people suffering from memory loss? A very distressing case was recently brought to my attention by a constituent in Wouldham, a village in my constituency, of a man who could not remember his …
Commons
Committee Stage
14 April 2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fourth sitting)
One could make that point about any organisation, including those that support the hon. Member’s argument: they are, broadly speaking, representative bodies and they cannot speak for everyone within the organisation. In that case, do we accept any representation from anyone, on the basis that one pe…
Commons
Oral Questions
24 March 2026
Topical Questions
Medway Maritime hospital in my constituency is benefiting from a £25.9 million investment to introduce heat pumps and other measures. Does the Minister agree that we could invest in public sector provision to reduce bills in schools, hospitals and other buildings across the country?
Commons
Debate
23 March 2026
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
I welcome the Minister to her new position and thank her predecessors for all the excellent work that they did in getting this legislation through Committee and in their representations in the House of Lords.
As has rightly been said by Members across this Chamber, this is a seminal piece of legisl…
Commons
Debate
10 March 2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill
First, I pay tribute to all the hon. Members across the Chamber who have contributed to the debate with their life experiences, from barristers and prosecutors to criminal justice experts, as well as the powerful victim testimony we have heard. I welcome to the Gallery those victims who have put the…
Commons
Oral Questions
4 March 2026
2 contributions
Economic Growth
8. What recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on increasing economic growth in Wales.
It is welcome that the Secretary of State opened the London stock exchange this morning, just after St David’s day and at the opening of Wales Week. Is this not a vindication of the two Labour Governments in Wales and Westminster working in partnership? In my constituency of Chatham and Aylesford, a…
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 March 2026
2 contributions
Environmental Protection and Biodiversity
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North East Hertfordshire (Chris Hinchliff) for his passionate speech. Chatham has a proud maritime history and connection with the oceans, as well as the beautiful chalk streams of the escarpment that…
I could not agree more. I am proud that chalk streams are part of the portfolio that we are looking at to safeguard our natural world.
However, as chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the ocean, my focus is on a different ecosystem—one that is no less important than our terrestrial ecosys…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
26 January 2026
Police Reform White Paper
The recent National Audit Office report into police productivity highlights inconsistency in the operational and financial resilience of police forces, which suffered after the criminal inaction of the Conservative party. Will the Home Secretary set out how the National Police Service will enhance c…
Commons
Oral Questions
Cabinet Office
22 January 2026
2 contributions
Local Authorities: Business Investment
10. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to enable local authorities to invest in local businesses.
I thank the Minister for that answer. Under the last Government, social enterprises were decimated by cuts to their budgets during austerity. We have many good social enterprises in my constituency, such as Medway Community Healthcare, Emmaus and Medway Voluntary Action. What more can be done to sup…
Commons
Westminster Hall
21 January 2026
5 contributions
UK Wine Industry
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the UK wine industry.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank all the Members who are here. As we are running half an hour late—I appreciate your management of the Divisions earlier, Ms McVey—if Members are here for the bin…
I went to the Oxfordshire event today and tried some of the wine, which is of outstanding quality from an established producer of 50 years; long may that success continue. The hon. Member is correct that we have award-winning sparkling wines, and across Europe we are now seen as a choice region for …
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
15 January 2026
Gambling Harms: Children and Young People
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank those who have led the debate in our communities, including my hon. Friends the Members for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Kevin McKenna) and for Brent East (Dawn Butler), and the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Si…
Commons
Proceedings
2 December 2025
Budget Resolutions
This Budget is about aspiration and investing in the future potential of the British people, from the health service to our small businesses to our high streets. It is about supporting infrastructure and development, whether in airports, roads or power generation.
While we are on the topic of astro…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
2 December 2025
Angiolini Inquiry
May I join colleagues across the House in saying that our thoughts are with the family of Sarah Everard? I also thank Lady Elish for her inquiry and the part 2 report published today.
The Public Accounts Committee recently conducted an inquiry that looked at the National Audit Office report on poli…
Commons
Oral Questions
25 November 2025
Topical Questions
T5. The Public Accounts Committee has recently scrutinised the state of clinical negligence in the UK. At £60 billion, the Government liability for clinical negligence significantly increased under the last Government. The Government have commissioned David Lock to review the issue. Does the Secreta…
Commons
Oral Questions
Solicitor General
13 November 2025
2 contributions
Violence against Women and Girls
10. What steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates in cases of violence against women and girls.
Prosecutions and convictions for domestic abuse dramatically fell under the last Government, which impacted constituents across all of our areas, including in Chatham and Aylesford. What steps are the Government taking to increase the level of prosecutions and convictions for this heinous crime?
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
5 November 2025
Engagements
Q4. The leader of my local council, Kent county council, has said that they are a “shop window” for Reform UK. With councillors facing criminal charges, inappropriate conduct and behaviour, a defection, five expulsions, a failed DOGE-inspired cost-cutting drive and an authoritarian leader who shouts…
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 November 2025
Houses in Multiple Occupation: Planning Consent
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd.
As my hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield (Steve Yemm) has said, we should be looking to create streets in which our residents can live, work and thrive together. However, it is indeed the case that the in-boxes of Members in this Chamber…
Commons
Debate
16 October 2025
2 contributions
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Mauritius was one of the early signatories to the UN global ocean treaty? If so, I am not sure what his point is.
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement, the greatest source of visual beauty, the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living”—wise words by David Attenborough. They are words that everyone c…
Commons
Westminster Hall
14 October 2025
Criminal Courts: Independent Review
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I thank the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright) for this debate. He will be aware that there have been a number of debates on this salient issue here and in the other place. Nationally, the court b…
Commons
Debate
16 September 2025
Sentencing Bill
Every single one of us is here because we want to deliver justice for every one of our constituents. As a former police officer, it has been really welcome to hear of the lived experiences of barristers, criminal prosecutors and people who have worked in our Prison Service, because it is their exper…
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
16 September 2025
2 contributions
Court Backlogs
14. What steps he is taking to reduce the length of waiting times in the Crown court.
In west Kent, an initiative to share the resource of Maidstone Crown court with Woolwich Crown court is spreading cases into areas where there is not such a backlog. Can the Government indicate whether that is being openly considered in other parts of the country so that we can spread the backlog ac…
Commons
Debate
15 September 2025
Employment Rights Bill
I welcome the Government amendments, and thank those who have steered the legislation to this point.
This is a generational upgrade in employment rights, and as a Labour MP, I am very proud to support it. It is a landmark shift in some ways—a declaration that in modern Britain, hard work should be …
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
15 September 2025
Topical Questions
Weaponisation of social media has become a real cancer in our society, with MPs and others being targeted. What steps are the Government taking on hostile state threats on social media that might be being used to undermine our democracy?
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
8 September 2025
2 contributions
Defence Industrial Base
18. What steps he is taking to help strengthen the defence industrial base.
Medway has a proud tradition with its former dockyard in Chatham. Last week, I visited the BAE Systems aviation centre in Rochester in my constituency to see its graduates and apprentices. What more can be done to support graduates and apprentices in defence? Will the Minister take the opportunity t…
Commons
Proceedings
21 July 2025
Asylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal Activity
Members will be aware of the public streaming of violence and criminal activity towards property and police officers. This is the second year that this has happened over the summer period. Will the Minister confirm that she is engaging with other Departments on how we can review streaming activity s…