Commons
Oral Questions
Health and Social Care
14 July 2026
2 contributions
NHS Trusts: Digital Infrastructure
5. What steps he is taking to improve access to digital infrastructure for NHS trusts.
It is welcome that the Government are making progress on digital infrastructure and the single patient record, which is good news for patients and for the NHS, but patients in Peterborough risk missing out on some of the benefits because of the poor state of the local hospital and the North West Ang…
Commons
Oral Questions
29 June 2026
2 contributions
Youth Guarantee
6. What recent progress he has made on implementing the youth guarantee.
The youth guarantee will play a crucial part in a city such as Peterborough where for too long, too many young people have been starting their adult life on benefits without the necessary skills. Just this month, the Minister for Social Security and Disability, my right hon. Friend the Member for Ea…
Commons
Oral Questions
Solicitor General
4 June 2026
2 contributions
Victims: Right to Review
1. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the victims’ right to review scheme pilot.
I put on the record my thanks for the personal commitment and dedication of the Solicitor General to the scheme and its work. She will know as well as any of us that these cases are the most heartbreaking and difficult that families deal with, and that we support as constituency MPs. It is an import…
Commons
Proceedings
3 June 2026
Lebanon: Israel Defence Forces Operations
I pay tribute to the Minister’s dogged determination, shared by many of us on the Labour side of the House, to get this issue right.
I think I have said prayers every time throughout this crisis when there has been an abuse of human rights—not just in Lebanon, but when Hamas took the hostages, when…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
18 May 2026
Youth Justice
I welcome the White Paper and put on record my thanks both to my right hon. Friend and to the Minister for youth justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Jake Richards), for their work on this issue. One of the most heartbreaking things I have to do as a Member of Parliament is meet fam…
Commons
Oral Questions
28 April 2026
Child Poverty Taskforce
One of the worst legacies of the previous Government is that 43% of children growing up in Peterborough are living in poverty. Nearly 10,000 children will be affected by the lifting of the child cap in Peterborough alone. Will the Chancellor assure me that, while we have made huge progress, we will …
Commons
Westminster Hall
28 April 2026
2 contributions
Park Home Owners
It is a privilege to speak in this debate and to represent park home owners in my constituency, and to follow the passionate call for action from my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish). It is genuinely touching to see that we have a cross-party consensus between many in this House on…
My hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe described some elements of this sector as management by the wild west. Residents have used stronger words to me to describe the people who run some of these sites. That is why we need justice.
Local authorities are often too reluctant or slow to intervene wh…
Commons
Debate
21 April 2026
Middle East: Economic Update
The Chancellor is right: this was not our war, but its impacts are being felt by businesses and families in my constituency. What is almost as shocking as the recent price hike is how exposed our country is because of a decade of under-investment by the Conservative party in nuclear, onshore wind an…
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 March 2026
7 contributions
Public Baths and Lidos
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the impact of public baths and lidos on local communities.
It is a pleasure to speak in a debate that I think should be called in Hansard , “For the Love of Lidos”. It is a delight to open this debate on the value of our public baths and lidos. It coul…
I agree on both points. I will talk later about how I am blown away by the dedication of so many of the volunteers who have supported and built our lidos over a long period, and particularly during some very dark years in funding for some of them.
Nowhere is the happiness and pride that I have talk…
+5 more contributions in this session
Commons
Ministerial Statement
24 March 2026
Middle East: Economic Update
I thank my right hon. Friend for the serious approach she has taken to the conflict, unlike the hokey-cokey approach we have seen from the Conservative party. Peterborough is willing to play its part in developing our energy infrastructure, and we have already had £1 billion-worth of private investm…
Commons
Oral Questions
19 March 2026
2 contributions
Business of the House
Thank you, Mr Speaker.
As the Member of Parliament representing the constituency where the temple is based, may I put it on record that I am deeply disappointed not to have had a conversation with the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman), who has used parliamentary privilege to state some unt…
I am sorry, Mr Speaker, and I apologise to the House. The hon. Member for Harrow East has stated things that are not factual in relation to this.
One of the great blessings I have as a Member of Parliament is joining communities to celebrate festivals such Diwali, Hanukkah and Vaisakhi. In the comi…
Commons
Proceedings
18 March 2026
Student Loans
I welcome this week’s announcement of the new deal for young people beyond university. One of the challenges in a seat like Peterborough is that not enough young people get to either apprenticeships or university. Does the Minister agree that one of the challenges we face is that we spend so much ti…
Commons
Debate
17 March 2026
Youth Unemployment
I thank my right hon. Friend for the care and consideration he has shown in putting this package together. I am delighted today to be joined in the House by some inspiring apprentices from Caterpillar in my constituency, who have been talking about their experiences of moving into work. This matters…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
2 March 2026
Middle East
Like many people in my constituency, I said prayers over the weekend while watching the events unfold. It is clear that the region is in a perilous state, and we need to de-escalate, follow the rule of law and get peace back on the table.
I have a related question on the region for the Prime Minist…
Commons
Debate
3 February 2026
10 contributions
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
I first put on record my thanks to my Deep Heat patch; three hours of bobbing with a bad back has been a very special introduction to this debate. I welcome the opportunity to highlight an issue that is the driving mission of so many of us and the reason why we are in this House.
Like many Members,…
I would adore it.
+8 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
28 January 2026
2 contributions
Youth Unemployment
I thank my right hon. Friend for her great explanation of youth hubs. We have just opened one at the Peterborough United—Posh—stadium, bringing together all sorts of partnerships. A number of issues are raised by the young people I speak to there, which the youth hub addresses. One of those issues i…
I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s knowledge and his passion for this subject. I would just suggest that he perhaps underestimates the impact that insecure work can have. In one of my brother’s last jobs, he had to get in the car and start driving to work each morning before he would get a phon…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 January 2026
Iran
I place on the record my thanks to our diplomatic staff working around the world to support people during this difficult time. What conversations is the Foreign Secretary having with our G7 and European allies about what more we can do to use new technology to record, capture and document the horrif…
Commons
Debate
5 January 2026
Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief
Happy new year to you, Mr Speaker, and to all your team. I welcome the Minister’s comments. I thank DEFRA and Treasury Ministers for engaging with farmers and National Farmers Union members in my constituency, and for listening to their views. Farming has had a terrible decade—much longer than 14 mo…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
17 December 2025
Local Government Finance
The Conservatives have some brass neck when they blame councils like mine for being poor, given that they oversaw 14 years of austerity, underfunding and cuts. The initial figures suggest that by 2028-29 Peterborough city council will be receiving £65 million more from this Government, which will be…
Commons
Debate
8 December 2025
Employment Rights Bill
I represent a seat with one of the highest levels of zero-hours contracts and insecure work in the country. I am not sure how that compares to the hon. Member’s constituency, but if someone in my constituency requested a full-time contract, but that was turned down because they have only a right to …
Commons
Debate
8 December 2025
Child Poverty Strategy
Representing a city that has 20,000 children living in poverty, I strongly welcome the crucial fact that the strategy is not just about the poverty of the family budget, but the poverty of ambition. Too many of those 20,000 children have parents who are in low-paid, insecure work. Will my right hon.…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
3 December 2025
Engagements
Q8. At the weekend, I had the great privilege to join volunteers from Peterborough food bank at the Tesco in Werrington on their autumn food drive. I put on record my thanks to my constituents and those of other hon. Members who have supported that Trussell Trust initiative over the last week. One o…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 December 2025
Office for Budget Responsibility Forecasts
The report on the OBR leak makes deeply worrying reading. I welcome the resignation of the chair of the OBR, because leadership on these issues matters. It turns out that the leak was not unprecedented as we thought last week. It has leaked other documents, and it may need to go back further to look…
Commons
Proceedings
27 November 2025
Right to Trial by Jury
I welcome the Minister’s serious approach to dealing with this difficult issue. Like many other Members, my inbox is full of heartbreaking casework. Some of the most heartbreaking is from victims of crime who are anguished, hurt and deprived of justice because of delays in the system and because the…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
19 November 2025
Engagements
Q11. One of the worst legacies of the last Conservative Government was the collapse in apprenticeships for young people in places such as Peterborough, shutting a generation out of opportunity. My city is determined to turn that around, with places such as Peterborough College—like many of our colle…