Commons
Westminster Hall
8 July 2026
Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful point about big foreign tech companies. Does he believe that our dependency on six tech companies in all aspects of our lives poses a national security threat and needs to be assessed as such?
Commons
Proceedings
8 July 2026
NHS Corridor Care
I thank the hon. Member for securing this debate and for allowing me to intervene. The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS trust published data about patients in corridors for the first time only in May, and in that month it recorded 121 patients per day being treated outside clinical rooms and areas. A cons…
Commons
Westminster Hall
30 June 2026
Antisemitism: University Campuses
I commend the hon. Member for his unity and solidarity with Jewish students and Jewish people. Does he agree that conflating Israel with all Jewish people is also something that should be avoided, as it can lead to an increase in antisemitism?
Commons
Debate
30 June 2026
2 contributions
Department of Health and Social Care
An estimated 229,000 excess deaths by 2036—that is the eye-watering figure that BMJ analysis identifies as the upshot of diverting NHS funding to pay more for pharmaceuticals in response to Trump’s threats.
Estimates day debates exist to scrutinise how public money will be spent before that spendin…
Will the hon. Gentleman to comment on the fact that the NHS pays 10 times the manufacturing costs for over 80% of the licensed medicines that we buy? How is that underpaying?
Commons
Proceedings
23 June 2026
Puberty Blockers
Does the hon. Lady agree that unblocking the reasons why the data is not being made available should be the top priority, and that analysis of that data should be done before any further experiments on children are done?
Commons
Debate
11 June 2026
Legacy of Jo Cox
The importance of international development aid cannot be overstated. I recognise the need for a nation to be prepared to defend itself against threats from outside and from within, but does the right hon. Gentleman agree that funding for that should not come from international development aid?
Commons
Oral Questions
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
4 June 2026
Topical Questions
In Dewsbury and Batley, Yorkshire Water has dumped sewage for more than 1,597 hours so far this year, exceeding the confirmed total sewage pollution for 2025. Yet the Environment Agency has not completed any prosecutions against water companies for sewage dumping committed in the past five years. Wh…
Commons
Oral Questions
Science, Innovation and Technology
20 May 2026
2 contributions
Artificial Intelligence
5. What steps she is taking to help ensure artificial intelligence is developed responsibly.
Given the growing warnings from leading scientists, industry figures and Nobel laureates that advanced AI systems could pose existential risks on a par with nuclear or biological threats, does the Minister agree that the current reliance on voluntary commitments through the AI Security Institute is …
Commons
Oral Questions
28 April 2026
2 contributions
Child Poverty Taskforce
11. What steps her Department is taking through the child poverty taskforce to help reduce levels of relative poverty.
In my constituency, 44.4% of children are living in poverty, according to the latest Government figures. Yet Oxfam reports that just 56 billionaires in the UK now hold more wealth than 27 million people combined in our country, and their wealth rose on average by more than £230 million each last yea…
Commons
Oral Questions
27 April 2026
2 contributions
Child Maintenance Service
5. What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in resolving cases in a timely manner.
I have constituents with court orders confirming genuinely shared care who are none the less required to pay full child maintenance for extended periods while disputes are resolved and/or system processes are completed. How does the Department ensure that evidence of shared care is applied consisten…
Commons
Debate
22 April 2026
Government Procurement Strategy
I also welcome the Minister’s response to the urgent question and the proposal to go British first in our procurement strategy, with over £400 billion spent per year. The Minister is no doubt aware that Members across this House, including myself, have repeatedly raised concerns about Palantir’s eth…
Commons
Westminster Hall
16 April 2026
5 contributions
NHS Federated Data Platform
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain.
In a briefing for investors, Palantir chief executive officer Alex Karp said:
“we are super proud of the role we play, especially in places we can’t talk about…Palantir is here to disrupt…and when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies a…
Will the hon. Member give way?
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Commons
Debate
15 April 2026
7 contributions
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Will the Minister confirm that the consultation is targeted at young people, parents and consumers of social media, and that the Government will not take input from social media companies?
Would the right hon. Gentleman agree that banning mobile phones in schools will not harm children, and that not banning them does harm children?
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Commons
Debate
15 April 2026
Pension Schemes Bill
The hon. Gentleman is making an eloquent and serious speech. Does he agree that, in addition to fossil fuels, local government pension schemes are exposed to industries and assets that our constituents rightly consider deeply unethical? They include tobacco companies, arms producers that are complic…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 April 2026
Knife Crime
I thank the Minister for her statement and welcome the Government’s plan to halve knife crime in a decade. Unfortunately, though, knife crime is not limited to London or city centres; in Dewsbury and Batley, knife crime is higher than the national average, and violent crime—which includes knife crim…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 April 2026
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
I join Members across the House in paying tribute to the Minister for his work and the previous Government who started the compensation scheme. My constituent met me at a surgery last year and spoke to me about her late brother, who tragically died in 1988 after being infected with contaminated bloo…
Commons
Westminster Hall
14 April 2026
5 contributions
“For Women Scotland” Court Ruling: First Anniversary
It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I thank the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart) for securing this debate on the first anniversary of the For Women Scotland Ltd v. the Scottish Ministers ruling. I also thank her and other colleagues in this Chamber for their work…
I am not a medical doctor—there are experts in this room—but if somebody has gone through operations under the NHS and that is medically assessed and professionally delivered, I respect their current biological status. If I have used the wrong language, I apologise, but these are special cases. The …
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Commons
Debate
13 April 2026
2 contributions
SEND Provision and Reform
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, as well as the harm caused to the children who do not receive timely support for their special needs, if children are in the wrong setting, harm is caused to the teachers, who are not qualified to support those children in their normal, mainstream setting? If we c…
I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this profoundly important debate. I thank the hon. Member for Farnham and Bordon (Gregory Stafford) for securing it. SEND is one of the most common and most urgent issues raised by struggling families and overstretched schools in my constituency of Dewsb…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 April 2026
Middle East
British drones flew over Lebanon hours before and after the Israeli massacre that killed at least 18 people in a Bekaa valley city, among 300 people across the region that day. We know that UK drones and surveillance flights have been used to feed operational information to the IDF during the genoci…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
25 March 2026
Engagements
I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks about the attack on the Jewish community in Golders Green; there is no place for hatred, antisemitism or violence of any kind against individuals.
An independent panel of senior judges found no basis for misconduct proceedings against the British…
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 March 2026
2 contributions
NHS Continuing Healthcare
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. I wholeheartedly agree with him, in particular about his constituents who had the support that their child needed for many years, had an annual review that reconfirmed that that support was necessary, and then suddenly, out of the blue…
It is the responsibility of ICBs to administer and provide this support, but does the Minister share my concern and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Perry Barr (Ayoub Khan) that the involvement of private contractors in eligibility reviews may not be appropriate? The ICB may feel tha…
Commons
Oral Questions
24 March 2026
2 contributions
UN Framework Convention on International Tax Co-operation: Global Taxes
1. Whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on global taxes on oil and gas companies in the context of the proposed UN framework convention on international tax co-operation.
The combined market value of the six big oil super-majors has soared by more than $130 billion since the first US-Israeli attack on Iran, while my constituents and those across the country face higher bills. Will the Energy Secretary and the Government work with international partners to establish g…
Commons
Westminster Hall
23 March 2026
4 contributions
Puberty Blockers Clinical Trial
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. This is a Government who have shown that they care for the safety and welfare of children. They supported the Online Safety Act 2023 to counteract harmful digital content and removed, albeit eventually, the punitive two-child benefit cap to…
I am going to continue, given the lack of time.
The numbers are important. They mean that the Government are choosing to prioritise the interests of between five and 90 of the 226 children involved in the clinical trial at the expense of deliberately harming between 135 and 203 children, who will e…
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Commons
Westminster Hall
18 March 2026
2 contributions
Freedom of Religion or Belief in China
I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this important debate. With respect to the Uyghurs, does she agree that what we are witnessing in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China is not simply a matter of restricted religious freedoms, but something far more grave? She points to the fact that the Uyghurs ar…
Given the 2021 parliamentary vote recognising the risk of genocide of the Uyghurs, does the hon. Member agree that the Government should be taking every step that they are obliged to take, under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, to prevent genocide in China?
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 March 2026
5 contributions
Immigration Reforms
The right hon. Gentleman is making an extremely eloquent speech. Of course we understand that the more people come into our country, the more the pressures on our public services will be exacerbated. The numbers he cited are post Brexit, under his former Government. If I remember correctly—I apologi…
Care workers make an invaluable contribution to our country and the people that they care for. Does the hon. Member agree that illegal care companies that are charging to issue visas to people who then come to this country with no job are—along with those people arriving illegally—demonising the leg…
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