Commons
Oral Questions
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
9 July 2026
Topical Questions
T5. Under our current system, food imported from abroad, often from countries with lower standards, can be packaged in the UK but labelled as British. To stop “flagwashing”, and to back our British farmers, will the Minister back the Labour rural research group’s calls to introduce a mandatory label…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
8 July 2026
Engagements
Q7. I am deeply grateful for what the Prime Minister has helped us deliver in Cornwall in the past couple of years, whether that is free breakfast clubs, urgent capital funding for GP surgeries or the Kernow industrial growth fund. [Interruption.] However, what has held us back at various points—bes…
Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
7 July 2026
Topical Questions
I was elected on the back of three clear pledges, one of which was to work to create jobs and prosperity in some of our strongest growing industries. One of those is renewables, which is growing at 20% or so a year—much faster than the wider economy. In Cornwall, we are doing a great job at renewabl…
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
6 July 2026
2 contributions
Russia: Level of Threat to UK
9. What assessment he has made of the level of threat from Russia.
As we have heard, we are in a new era of modern warfare, in which cheap drones, costing thousands of pounds, can knock out systems costing millions. The defence investment plan reflects that new reality, and I welcome the £5 billion set aside for drones, but what steps is the Minister taking to inve…
Commons
Westminster Hall
6 July 2026
Ceramics Industry
As my hon. Friend the Member for Camborne and Redruth (Perran Moon) pointed out, the critical minerals industry lacks wider support through the British industrial competitiveness scheme and the supercharger scheme, but so does upstream china clay production. That is a huge concern for a supply chain…
Commons
Debate
1 July 2026
Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill
The shadow Minister speaks of the need for ambition, but does he not agree that there is little that is more ambitious than breaking the link between the cost of gas and electricity, which so many of our constituents have called on us to do in recent months?
Commons
Proceedings
25 June 2026
Sudan
We have heard very serious allegations this week that Foreign Office officials, and allegedly even senior members of this Government, may have been swayed by ties with international partners in determining how the UK acts to de-escalate this conflict and prevent atrocities in Sudan, against the back…
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 June 2026
2 contributions
Ports and Port Connectivity
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for securing this debate. I wonder whether, like me, she would like to hear from the Minister today how the vision for ports that she outlined, which is so clearly tapping into opportunities in Cornwall across the critical minerals, renewable energy and many other ind…
I thank my hon. Friend for giving way again and I wholeheartedly support the work taking place at the port of Falmouth to get the rail connection back for freight. I really hope that we can draw support from the Department for Transport in accelerating that to the next stage. However, does she agree…
Commons
Oral Questions
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
4 June 2026
Topical Questions
T3. Even ahead of the global instability this spring, the Labour rural research group was calling for a spring push on farm profitability. Since then, our Government have announced a review of the regulation that farmers face and brought the Groceries Code Adjudicator back in-house at DEFRA to help …
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
3 June 2026
Engagements
Q6. The whole country is united in its horror at the tragic death of Henry Nowak. Will the Prime Minister join me once again in paying tribute to Henry’s family for their courage in the face of this tragedy? Will he also join me in calling for recognition of the serious mistakes made by the police, …
Commons
Debate
13 May 2026
New Developments: Unadopted Roads and Public Amenities
I am sure that residents in Gwallon Keas in my constituency are incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend for securing this debate, as am I. Does he agree that this is not just taxation by stealth, but an unsung privatisation by stealth of our public realm in recent decades? Does he, as I do, welcome th…
Commons
Westminster Hall
28 April 2026
Park Home Owners
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish) for securing this important debate. I am sure he will be much thanked by my residents in Gainsborough Park, Fir Hill, Glenleigh, Roseveare, Buckler Village, and the Old Rectory Mews, for raising the issues that they raise with me—the 10%…
Commons
Debate
13 April 2026
SEND Provision and Reform
SEND provision is a fraught and highly emotional issue, because of the stakes at play: education, inclusion and, above all, dignity. I am pleased to see so many colleagues here from across the House, with the exception of only a couple of parties. Like others, I want to share the experiences of my c…
Commons
Oral Questions
19 March 2026
Topical Questions
T5. When we came to power, our then Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committed to protect farmers from being undercut in all new trade deals. I am pleased to say that we have come good on that commitment. Ahead of the Labour rural research group’s push for farming profitabi…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
18 March 2026
Engagements
Q13. Some 95% of the food that we import from non-EU countries has lower welfare standards than that produced by British farmers, costing us millions and putting worse food on our plates. The Labour Rural Research Group will shortly launch our spring push on farming profitability to support Britis…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
12 March 2026
Business of the House
I was delighted to see the Eden Project’s recent report, which shone a light on the nearly £7 billion-worth of positive impact it has drawn into the Cornish economy and our community over the past 25 years. Will the Leader of the House work with me and across Departments to ensure that our high stre…
Commons
Debate
10 March 2026
Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience
There has been a huge amount of progress towards what a good devolution settlement for Cornwall should look like, but it is also increasingly evident since Storm Goretti that part of that deal has to be infrastructure resilience. I really welcome the idea that we pilot some of these storm resilience…
Commons
Debate
4 March 2026
3 contributions
St Piran’s Day
I am delighted to hear that story, for the first time, of St Piran smelting tin. Does my hon. Friend agree that, if St Piran could have a tin smelter in the fifth century AD, it is not too much of a stretch to imagine we could have one today in Cornwall, and that we would once again smelt tin?
Does my hon. Friend agree that Cornwall is not just a proud Celtic nation, but also a functional economic geography in its own right?
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
4 March 2026
4 contributions
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?
I declare an interest as a former employee of BII. Might I gently share my disagreement with the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) and my hon. Friend the Chair on this point? Although it is incredibly important that our development finance institutions adh…
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
2 March 2026
2 contributions
Free Breakfast Clubs
12. What steps she has taken to roll out Best Start free breakfast clubs.
I am delighted that Pondhu primary school in my constituency has been a trailblazer for not just our Government’s free breakfast clubs scheme, but investment in school nurseries, which has been a resounding success. What assessment has the Minister made of the positive impacts of our free breakfast …
Commons
Oral Questions
25 February 2026
Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory
Can I ask the Minister to engage in a short thought experiment? If senior members of the Labour party, at the time they were in opposition, had gone to lobby a foreign Government against the best interests of the British security services, what would have been the reaction of the right-wing media an…
Commons
Oral Questions
24 February 2026
Topical Questions
T6. In 2024, my constituent Wendy fractured three vertebrae from osteoporosis after being denied a DEXA scan. She spent three months in hospital and suffered lasting harm. Will the Minister review DEXA eligibility and expand local access to prevent future fractures and save the NHS costs?
Commons
Oral Questions
10 February 2026
Topical Questions
I welcome the news this morning of Imerys’s success in auction round 7. What steps is the Minister taking as part of the local power plan to ensure that local communities share the spoils of Cornwall’s great renewable energy potential?
Commons
Debate
2 February 2026
3 contributions
Tolled Crossings and Regional Connectivity
I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I thank my hon. Friend for giving way on Cornwall’s economic potential and particularly the role of critical minerals. Does she agree that in an ideal but not unimaginable world, we would have electric ferries, ideally powered by C…
The hon. Member makes an important point about the lack of National Highways funding for the bridge, but does he share my delight at the £220 million investment coming into Cornwall’s roads from national Government? We are seeing record-breaking investment in our roads, but that is not to detract fr…
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Proceedings
13 January 2026
Storm Goretti
I, too, put on record my thanks to the emergency services for their work over this long and difficult weekend. In particular, I thank National Grid for its swift work, at least in my part of Cornwall, in reconnecting people to the grid. However, other infrastructure has been unacceptably slow to com…