Commons
Westminster Hall
8 July 2026
Draft UK-EU Agreement on Gibraltar
It is a great pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir John. I congratulate the hon. Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers) on securing this important debate. I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I had the great pleasure of visiting Gibr…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
1 July 2026
2 contributions
Engagements
Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 1 July.
I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s condolences and his birthday good wishes to the NHS.
Everyone in my constituency of Surrey Heath wants a new Frimley Park hospital, but the chosen site—the last remaining fragment of the ancient Frimley common—is wholly inappropriate. It is inaccessible,…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
30 June 2026
Defence Investment Plan
Since we have been in the Chamber, it has been reported online that senior military personnel are deeply unhappy with the DIP and, indeed, that the Chief of the Defence Staff asked the Secretary of State to remove a line that suggested that he personally backed the plan. Will the Secretary of State …
Commons
Proceedings
23 June 2026
14 contributions
Defence Spending and Readiness
It is a pleasure to speak in this debate at the start of Armed Forces Week, and as a member of the armed forces parliamentary scheme—it has been the honour of a lifetime to be a member for the past couple of years. It has been wonderful to get to know friends and colleagues across the House on that …
I would absolutely be delighted to.
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Commons
Oral Questions
Transport
11 June 2026
2 contributions
Road Junction Safety
6. What steps she is taking help improve safety at road junctions.
In my constituency of Surrey Heath, the M3/A322 junction between Bagshot and Lightwater remains a serious congestion bottleneck for local residents and a serious source of frustration for motorway users—it is notorious on all morning travel reports. Poor advance signage and a confusing road layout c…
Commons
Proceedings
11 June 2026
Point of Order
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. As you and Members across the House know, there has been widespread speculation in the press and this House over the last 24 to 48 hours that either the Prime Minister or the Secretary of State for Defence will announce the defence investment plan in whole …
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 June 2026
Freedom of Religion or Belief: Sudan
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Barker. I believe that this might be the first occasion on which I have done so. I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), who, not untypically, asked the right question with the deep care and compassion that always moves us. He was …
Commons
Westminster Hall
11 June 2026
Freedom of Religion or Belief: Sudan
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Barker. I believe that this might be the first occasion on which I have done so. I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), who, not untypically, asked the right question with the deep care and compassion that always moves us. He was …
Commons
Proceedings
10 June 2026
Defence Investment Plan
I associate myself and my hon. Friends with the condolences paid to the families of the crew who died in the tragic helicopter crash last week.
The defence investment plan is still not published, and after nine months, industry waits for certainty, our allies for clarity and our armed forces for th…
Commons
Oral Questions
Health and Social Care
9 June 2026
Topical Questions
The relocation of Frimley Park hospital in my constituency is a £1.8 billion project, but none of the costs of the essential infrastructure to enable the new site to go ahead have been costed or budgeted for. The chief executives of the hospital simply have said that those costs will have to come fr…
Commons
Proceedings
9 June 2026
North Belfast: Violent Attack
The reports from Kinnaird Avenue are deeply distressing. My thoughts are with the victim and his family. I pay tribute to the residents who did the extraordinary thing of running towards danger, intervening to restrain the attacker and helping to protect another person’s life. I also thank the polic…
Commons
Oral Questions
Home Department
8 June 2026
Topical Questions
My constituent, Richard, has been unable to work for four months because of Disclosure and Barring Service delays. Things are getting desperate at home, and he faces the prospect of defaulting on his mortgage this month. There has been a 10-month delay from the point of application to now. Will one …
Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
2 June 2026
2 contributions
EU Internal Electricity Market
10. What recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the UK’s participation in the EU’s internal electricity market.
At a time of intense geopolitical instability, British households remain particularly exposed to volatile global energy prices. Indeed, Ofcom has announced a 13% rise in the energy price cap from July. Given that there are interconnectors with six European countries already, does the Minister agree …
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 June 2026
Children: Development of Essential Skills
I have been contacted in the past week by pupils from Collingwood college in Surrey Heath—it is very close to Bracknell, but I can still claim it. They have been talking to me about mis- and disinformation, and they have said how important it is to receive citizenship education, which is excellently…
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
19 May 2026
2 contributions
Family Courts
1. What steps he is taking to reform the family courts.
I am grateful for that response. My constituent Olivia is an extraordinary survivor of sustained coercive control involving psychological, physical and financial abuse—a set of abuses that continued even after her separation from her partner, because of child contact arrangements, which left her in …
Commons
Debate
21 April 2026
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
I congratulate the Conservative Lords on insisting on amendment 37. However, I wonder whether the shadow Secretary of State might have a word with the Surrey Heath Conservative Association, which has campaigned vigorously against parish councils in my area. It has described parish councils as gravy …
Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
When the Prime Minister asked his officials in January 2025, as he surely did—perhaps with an element of surprise in his voice—“So, Peter actually passed his security clearance, did he?”, what was the scenario that then unfolded? Did Sir Olly Robbins declare, “I’m sorry, I can’t tell you, Prime Mini…
Commons
Debate
15 April 2026
Strategic Defence Review: Funding
My question follows on perfectly from that of the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Liz Saville Roberts). Lord Robertson said that we are ill prepared for the threats of today, never mind tomorrow. While Britain may not be under daily attack from missiles and tanks—not yet, anyway—we are und…
Commons
Debate
13 April 2026
2 contributions
SEND Provision and Reform
I thank the hon. Member for Farnham and Bordon (Gregory Stafford) for calling this important debate. Like him, my inbox has overflowed since I was elected last year, with concerned parents writing to me about the state of special educational needs provision. They recognise that the system is broken,…
I agree that with local government reorganisation there is an opportunity to get the processes right, but I recognise that there are enormous risks, particularly in Surrey, where the new unitary authority is likely to start its life with £4 billion of debt and an annual shortfall of £150 million in …
Commons
Debate
13 April 2026
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
I genuinely thank the Minister for his statement, for advance sight of it, and for his long engagement with me on these issues.
The process for negotiating this treaty has been, I am sorry to say, utterly shambolic, from its beginning under the previous Government to its demise under this one. [Int…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 April 2026
Middle East
The Prime Minister is right to suggest that the tremors provoked by this conflict will reverberate long after the kinetic fighting has finished. There is perhaps no better example of that than Cyprus, where Government officials, all the way up to the level of the Prime Minister, have questioned Brit…
Commons
Debate
23 March 2026
Middle East
From the first moments that the attempted rocket launches towards Diego Garcia were reported over the weekend there has been growing speculation, fuelled mainly by Israel, that Iran’s strike capacity now stretches far beyond what we previously conceived, and far beyond the Gulf region. Given what th…
Commons
Debate
17 March 2026
Middle East
It is abundantly clear to any fair-minded geopolitical observer that the US-Israeli actions in Iran were commenced without the cover of law and without a plan to follow the initial impulse of kinetic violence. But it is equally clear that the United Kingdom was caught short in our responsiveness and…
Commons
Oral Questions
16 March 2026
Strait of Hormuz
Given the vital role of Lloyd’s of London in underwriting global trade and providing war risk cover to vessels currently stuck in the Persian gulf, what conversations has the Minister had—or what conversations is he aware of—with Lloyd’s to ensure that its extraordinary expertise in this area is fac…
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
16 March 2026
Defence: UK Allies
Following the drone attack at RAF Akrotiri earlier this month, there has been growing disquiet within Cyprus and the Cypriot community about the continuing existence of the sovereign base areas. Given the absolute necessity of this defence relationship between the United Kingdom and Cyprus, will the…