Commons
Westminster Hall
15 July 2026
3 contributions
Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Will the Minister give way?
The Minister has referred to the fact that, as yet, there has been no application and therefore no ministerial decision, but he has also said that community engagement is an important part of the decision-making process. My concern on behalf of my constituents is that they do not feel engaged with; …
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
7 July 2026
Topical Questions
My local community energy company, which is run by volunteers, is incredibly keen to get solar panels on the roofs of local public buildings, but we are really struggling to get the permissions we need from the local authority to proceed with two schools. They missed the easter installation window, …
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
1 July 2026
Engagements
Q8. Dr Carly Mellor, an NHS dentist in my constituency, recently said the following to me: “Ministers had pledged to fix the failed contract we work to within this Parliament. The Government has begun discussions on a new contract, and promised a public consultation on it this summer. With a typical…
Commons
Debate
29 June 2026
2 contributions
Home Office and Ministry of Justice
Does the hon. Member have any figures disaggregating prison officers from the remainder of MOJ staff? Obviously, their working lives are very different.
I thank the Government for the considerable progress that has been made on criminal legal aid and other matters within the estimates since we have taken office. The courts system, as we have heard, was in the most dilapidated and decrepit state, and we had a dearth of judge recruitment between 2010 …
Commons
Proceedings
8 June 2026
Water Companies
Since 2003, my constituent has suffered multiple incidents every year of raw sewage flooding into his garden. United Utilities is disputing with him how the guaranteed standards scheme works, and he is not receiving adequate compensation. His golden wedding anniversary was completely ruined when he …
Commons
Westminster Hall
3 June 2026
Small Towns: Transport Links
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Andy MacNae) for securing this important debate. I have spoken previously about train services in my community; I will not spend a huge amount of my limited time on them, but I want to flag that we have been in government for two years, an…
Commons
Debate
27 April 2026
Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update
Could my right hon. Friend the Minister please confirm whether any documents that were previously in the scope of the Humble Address have been deemed no longer to be within its scope due to the application of litigation privilege in respect of the dismissal of Olly Robbins?
Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
It is accepted by many on the Government Benches that the Prime Minister did not know the outcome of the vetting, but the Cabinet Secretary came forward on Tuesday, having spent a month researching whether or not she could provide the advice that she did, so she had clearly thought very carefully ab…
Commons
Debate
13 April 2026
Southport Inquiry
I know that the thoughts of the whole House are with the families, as are mine. One of the many aspects of what has gone wrong here relates to children’s mental health services. Will the Home Secretary please outline what we are doing about the workforce in children’s mental health services? There i…
Commons
Oral Questions
Solicitor General
19 March 2026
2 contributions
Violence against Women and Girls: Prosecutions
4. What steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for cases involving violence against women and girls.
I very much welcome that news. Prosecution rates in cases involving violence against women and girls are shamefully low. I strongly welcome the Government’s ambition to tackle violence against women and girls, including our manifesto commitments to fast-track rape cases and introduce specialist cour…
Commons
Oral Questions
Business and Trade
12 March 2026
2 contributions
Parental Rights at Work
9. What recent progress he has made on improving parental rights at work.
Since 2004, the limit on relief for small employers at which they can reclaim statutory maternity pay has been set at £45,000. Small and medium-sized enterprises want to support working parents, but they need our help to do so. Will the Minister confirm whether that will be looked at as part of the …
Commons
Debate
10 March 2026
9 contributions
Courts and Tribunals Bill
In the magistrates court, only those who earn less than £21,000 a year—less than a full-time job at real living wage rates—are entitled to legal aid. Does my hon. Friend agree that there is real danger in that in terms of access to justice?
What does the right hon. Gentleman say about the freedom of women to walk the streets without fearing for their physical safety? What does he say about the freedom of women who have made allegations of rape, and who are waiting six years between reporting to the police and having a trial? Does he re…
+7 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
5 March 2026
2 contributions
Cyber-security
18. What steps his Department is taking to help improve the cyber-security of national infrastructure.
I thank the Minister for his answer. We have seen in recent days that Iran is bombing data centres across the middle east, and we are well aware that there have been problems with cyber-attacks by non-state and state-backed actors from Iran. Can the Minister please outline what the Government and th…
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 February 2026
3 contributions
Student Loan Repayment Plans
I am pleased to see you in the Chair, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South (Jas Athwal) for securing this debate.
The system just is not fair; it does not make any sense and it does not set people up well for life. Realistically, a person makes a decision about whether to g…
The hon. Gentleman has referred to plan 2 loans but plan 3 loans were also brought in by his Government. Plan 3 loans are for those with postgraduate qualifications—people who are definitely making an economic contribution to our society—and now kick in from when they earn £21,000. Does he agree tha…
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
23 February 2026
Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving
In terms of the points raised about funding, Cheshire is struggling significantly with underfunding per pupil. Will how we roll out funding for these changes follow the existing formula, or will that be revised?
Commons
Committee Stage
3 February 2026
2 contributions
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)
Q One of the things talked about this morning was that the risk in these relationships and sectors will simply be managed down the supply chain until it is essentially contracted out of existence, because the smallest organisations that end up holding the risk will be incapable of effectively managi…
Q Professor Child, I note that you are very supportive of legal reform in quite a number of areas. With emphasis on the Computer Misuse Act, surely the reality is that the Crown Prosecution Service will never conclude that it is in the best interests of the country to prosecute any of the behaviours…
Commons
Committee Stage
3 February 2026
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)
Q Obviously no one wants to put crippling costs on to businesses, but cyber-security costs money—there is no way of avoiding that. We only have to look at the JLR attack to see the scale of the impact on our economy when it does not work, and we are looking at only critical national infrastructure h…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
20 January 2026
Mobile Phones and Social Media: Use by Children
The Children’s Commissioner spoke to a group of 15 and 16-year-olds in 2024 and found that three quarters of them had been sent a beheading video. It is possible that a great number of children are protecting us from what they see online, instead of us protecting them. Can I emphasise strongly the i…
Commons
Westminster Hall
20 January 2026
ADHD Diagnosis
I have similar stories of incredibly long waiting lists, my local ICB closing waiting lists and my constituents’ general difficulty in accessing support. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government have already had a two-part report with recommendations on dealing with ADHD, and that there is plen…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 January 2026
Northern Powerhouse Rail
Northern Powerhouse Rail will be great for economic growth across the north and that will very much benefit my constituency. My constituency is geographically located in such a way that it should be great for travel to London, Liverpool and Manchester. Sadly, at the moment it is usually terrible for…
Commons
Westminster Hall
14 January 2026
Horse and Rider Road Safety
I support the hon. Gentleman’s point about the importance of equestrian representation in these structures. In my constituency, there is a major equestrian centre at Somerford. We also have many horse riders throughout the area, and there have been multiple accidents. We really need to take action o…
Commons
Debate
12 January 2026
Social Media: Non-consensual Sexual Deepfakes
The overwhelming majority of child sexual abuse imagery produced online is still, very sadly, produced by children themselves, who have been groomed by adults in order to do so. What steps will the Government take to ensure that there are device-level protections to prevent children from taking and …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
8 January 2026
Road Safety Strategy
In my constituency, 19 people died on the roads between 2018 and 2024. It is usually assumed that that is because we have some motorway in the constituency, but in fact people are six times more likely to die on a rural road. I thank the Minister very much for the measures within the strategy. I kno…
Commons
Debate
6 January 2026
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
Happy new year to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, your team and everyone else in the House.
It is no overstatement to say that this is one of the most pressing issues of our time. I suspect that if we were not bringing forward this legislation it would only become apparent quite how pressing it had been…