Commons
Oral Questions
Scotland
15 July 2026
2 contributions
Defence Skills: Fife
2. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to promote skills development in the defence industry in Fife.
Given the threats that our country faces, in March the Secretary of State announced welcome funding for two defence technical excellence colleges, one to be in the east of Scotland. Fife college at Kirkcaldy, in particular, stands ready to absorb new funding and rapidly scale up provision to plug th…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
10 June 2026
2 contributions
Engagements
Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 10 June.
Happy birthday to you, Mr Speaker. Let me associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks about the situation in Northern Ireland, and about the Scottish football team. [Laughter.]
The existence of Israeli settlements and settler violence against Palestinians is a major and deliberate impediment…
Commons
Proceedings
10 June 2026
2 contributions
Speaker’s Statement
Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 10 June.
Happy birthday to you, Mr Speaker. Let me associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks about the situation in Northern Ireland, and about the Scottish football team. [Laughter.]
The existence of Israeli settlements and settler violence against Palestinians is a major and deliberate impediment…
Commons
Proceedings
8 June 2026
Digital Safety: Children
To test Instagram’s claim that its teen accounts provide age-appropriate content, I set up a teen account as a 17-year-old boy called David. Without searching for anything, it took just 11 minutes of scrolling for David to be shown antisemitic conspiracy theories. Does the Minister agree that that i…
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 June 2026
Preparedness for National Emergencies
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Barker. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline and Dollar (Graeme Downie) on securing this debate.
Before I was elected to this House, I served as a humanitarian aid worker and spent time in a number of war zones, so I know th…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
21 May 2026
Middle East
I commend the Government’s action on Iran; they are doing the right thing where others in this Chamber would have led us down a different and dangerous path.
I agree with the Minister’s words on Palestine and Lebanon, but we are long past the point of words being anything like enough. I served in H…
Commons
Debate
20 May 2026
3 contributions
Defence Readiness
I rise to speak in support of His Majesty’s Speech and to call for our Government to take bolder action on many of the challenges faced by our country, and indeed our world. We are living through global instability on a scale not seen for decades. The power shifts are real. Now more than at any time…
My hon. Friend makes an excellent point about soft power and why it is such an important complement to hard power.
It has become common to say that the rules-based order is dead or dying, but we must stand with our allies to preserve and defend all that was built to protect humanity from evil in th…
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Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
We all agree that Peter Mandelson should never have been appointed. The Prime Minister has said that clearly and consistently, and has taken responsibility, including by apologising. That is the right thing to do. Can he give further assurance that the Government will continue to comply in full with…
Commons
Oral Questions
Scotland
15 April 2026
Energy Profits Levy
The ExxonMobil plant at Mossmorran in my constituency has now ceased production, after the company said last year that it had not made a profit for five years. News that our UK Labour Government have made £9 million available to support the affected workforce and find a future for the site has been …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 April 2026
Middle East
I welcome the Prime Minister’s continued clarity on the need for Lebanon to be included in the ceasefire, but Israel’s tactics in Lebanon—forced displacement, evacuation orders, 165 children killed and 87 medical workers killed—are straight out of its Gaza playbook. Does the Prime Minister agree tha…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
24 March 2026
Middle East: Economic Update
My constituents are appalled by supermarkets and other petrol retailers that are price gouging and profiteering from global instability and a middle east war that was backed by both the Tories and Reform. Let us make no mistake: if they were in government, our country would be right in the middle of…
Commons
Debate
19 March 2026
2 contributions
Online Harms
It is an understatement to say that the internet and social media have changed everything. The early optimism of internet pioneers was that we would all benefit from a world in which all information was at our fingertips. In many respects, they were not wrong, and rapid technological advancement has…
I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I would add that I was recently at a primary school in my constituency, and I asked the young people how many of them were on social media—a class of 10 and 11-year-olds—and almost all of them were. However, when I talked to them about how social media wo…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
19 March 2026
International Development
The Foreign Secretary is aware of the impact of humanitarian aid and how it saves lives in the midst of the most horrific situations that humans experience on this earth. She will also be aware of the vital role that UN agencies, including the World Food Programme, play in co-ordinating humanitarian…
Commons
Oral Questions
19 March 2026
Business of the House
Under the SNP Scottish Government, police numbers in Fife have fallen by an average of one a month. Results from my new antisocial behaviour survey show that four in 10 Cowdenbeath residents are afraid to go out after dark, and more than half witness antisocial behaviour every single week. This is u…
Commons
Debate
18 March 2026
10 contributions
Fuel Duty
I thank the hon. Lady for giving way—I thought I would give her some further relief from the interventions from the manosphere on the Conservative Benches. She is talking about the importance of investing in clean energy to make our country more resilient and to do the right thing for the planet. Do…
indicated dissent.
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Commons
Debate
17 March 2026
Middle East
The Government are right not to be drawn into this war and that it needs to end, including with a negotiated agreement. I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s comments about the situation in Lebanon, where I used to live and work as an aid worker. Does she share my serious concern at the conduct of the I…
Commons
Debate
16 March 2026
Heating Oil Support
I warmly welcome the Minister’s confirmation that the UK Government have provided the Scottish Government with £4.6 million to ensure that the most vulnerable households in parts of my constituency, like Auchtertool and Kingseat, are shielded against the increases in the price of heating oil caused …
Commons
Debate
12 March 2026
International Women’s Day
I congratulate the hon. Member for Gorton and Denton (Hannah Spencer) on her first speech, and welcome her to this place. I do not know whether she has noticed, but the Palace of Westminster is in need of some maintenance, so it is entirely possible that both her plastering and plumbing skills will …
Commons
Westminster Hall
5 March 2026
Local Museums
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for securing this debate on local museums.
Local museums play a crucial role in our constituencies. They not only bring people to visit from all corners of the country and, indeed, …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
2 March 2026
Middle East
The Prime Minister is right to be clear that UK military action has to be in line with international law, and that we were not involved in the offensive action of Israel and the US. He is also right to act to protect British lives and British interests in the face of Iranian attacks. In rightly draw…
Commons
Debate
25 February 2026
Ukraine
The hon. Gentleman talks about drones. A couple of weeks ago, I was at the Munich security conference, where I had the privilege of hearing President Zelensky speak. He said that in January, Ukraine was attacked by more than 6,000 Shahed drones, which are made in Iran, or in Russia based on Iranian …
Commons
Westminster Hall
24 February 2026
3 contributions
Gaza Healthcare System
I am sure that everybody in this Chamber is absolutely opposed to the horrific Hamas attacks that took place on 7 October 2023. What confuses me is why the shadow Minister and his party continue to repeat Israeli propaganda points. I was an aid worker before I was elected to this place. I was in Gaz…
Will the Minister give way?
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Commons
Debate
29 January 2026
Holocaust Memorial Day
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers) who, as so often on topics like this, speaks with great authority.
I rise once again this year to remember the Holocaust, one of the darkest chapters in human history. The industrial-scale extermination of 6 million…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
29 January 2026
Business of the House
After beaches in Burntisland and Kinghorn recently had their water quality downgraded, many of my constituents will be angry that Scottish Government-owned Scottish Water are hiking bills by almost 10%. Both beaches were closed for periods last summer due to pollution, and people became sick from ex…
Commons
Debate
5 January 2026
Middle East and North Africa
I thank the Minister for all his work on Yemen, which gets too little attention. It is a personal commitment of his. The humanitarian crisis there is truly horrific. As he said, over Christmas, the Israeli Government banned 37 international humanitarian organisations, many of them British, from deli…